Activision and Bungle split

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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by Tafdolphin » Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:15 pm

Wedgie wrote:Activision are losing money? Really?


Long story short? No, they're not. What's happened is that they haven't had a tentpole release outside of CoD for a while now and profits are beginning to shrink. They anticipate a 2% drop next year.

So, they're laying off hundreds of people...because they're not making enough money,

Meanwhile, they gave their new CFO a $15million golden handshake.

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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by Wedgie » Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:35 pm

Just another page from American Captailism novel, then.

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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by Tafdolphin » Tue Feb 12, 2019 9:41 pm

twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1095435875222241280



Jesus, read the strawberry floating room.

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twitter.com/Vahn16/status/1095436686937403392



Seriously. Eat the strawberry floating rich.

EDIT 2:

twitter.com/crecenteb/status/1095439089048838144



holy gooseberry fool. That's... Insanely bad. Just strawberry floating crazy.

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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by Trelliz » Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:48 am

Kinda puts the "microtransactions are necessary to support developers" lie to bed - you can make billions by rinsing people (and hide it through offshore tax havens) but unless you're making more billions than before you have to fire people as their pesky wages are getting in the way of that money pile.

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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by Knoyleo » Wed Feb 13, 2019 11:54 am

twitter.com/waypoint/status/1095469051990683648



Correct headline

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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by PES Fan » Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:01 pm

How much has Kotick made? I know he was making like £60m a few years back and one of the highest paid CEOs in the world. I don’t dislike many people in the video games industry. But Kotick has to be the biggest banana split in it.

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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by Tafdolphin » Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:04 pm

Knoyleo wrote:

twitter.com/waypoint/status/1095469051990683648



Correct headline


Yep. It's a great article too.

Waypoint have quickly become known for their hugely pro-union stance, and they've had an eye on this gooseberry fool for years. Unfortunately most of the staff are off this week so it'll be a while before the eventual podcast on the affair hits.

Thankfully, this type of headline is the norm rather than the exception here. Not that it matters in any real sense, these companies have one audience they're appealing to, and those people don't read the strawberry floating gaming press.

Bungie must be counting their blessings.

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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by Photek » Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:28 pm

twitter.com/DavidEllis/status/1095434659385696257


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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by Peter Crisp » Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:28 pm

It's really rather odd watching people try and defend stuff like this.
They see nothing wrong with companies treating staff (except the top level management) like disposable gooseberry fool while paying as little tax as they possibly can and the management being immune from negative impacts from failure.
If the company fails it's obviously the fault of the low and middle income staff who will then be sacked with zero compensation but if it succeeds it's all the hard work of management who will be rewarded handsomely while the aforementioned low and middle income staff get completely ignored.

They have this odd idea that people like Bill Gates and the rest of the ultra rich will get super depressed and just stop working if they're dared to be asked to pay more tax (or even the same tax as everyone else) and companies would rather just close or move elsewhere if they even get a hint of regulation or being asked to pay tax.

They seem to feel the need to defend the ultra rich at all costs even if it means having gooseberry fool public infrastructure for everyone and schools that don't have enough money for books as for some reason the rich are just better people and somehow deserve it all.

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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by Moggy » Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:34 pm

Peter Crisp wrote:They have this odd idea that people like Bill Gates and the rest of the ultra rich will get super depressed and just stop working if they're dared to be asked to pay more tax (or even the same tax as everyone else) and companies would rather just close or move elsewhere if they even get a hint of regulation or being asked to pay tax.


You need to update your go to billionaire, Bill Gates is basically the lovechild of Buddha and Jesus compared to the new set of billionaires like Jeff Bezos. :lol:

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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by Peter Crisp » Wed Feb 13, 2019 1:39 pm

Moggy wrote:
Peter Crisp wrote:They have this odd idea that people like Bill Gates and the rest of the ultra rich will get super depressed and just stop working if they're dared to be asked to pay more tax (or even the same tax as everyone else) and companies would rather just close or move elsewhere if they even get a hint of regulation or being asked to pay tax.


You need to update your go to billionaire, Bill Gates is basically the lovechild of Buddha and Jesus compared to the new set of billionaires like Jeff Bezos. :lol:


I know Bill is a huge philanthropist now but he should have spent some of his money saving the British computer industry but didn't so he's just terrible.
He'd be 20 times richer now if he'd have hired Sir Clive Sinclair and everyone knows this they just don't like to admit it.

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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by Tafdolphin » Thu Feb 14, 2019 11:54 am

twitter.com/sewart/status/1095483831304552448



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PostRe: Activision and Bungle split
by OrangeRKN » Thu Feb 14, 2019 12:30 pm

Nothing more to add to that, it speaks for itself

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