Bobby Kotick voices his disapproval

[jxspyder]

So while flipping through my monthly issue of OXM, I noticed in one of their sections they had a small blurb discussing everyone's favorite CEO, Bobby Kotick.

In it, Bobby states his dissatisfaction and disapproval of XBL's marketing strategy. Not so much the pay part, but rather that he isn't getting his share of the profits. Bobby goes on to state that 60% of the XBL audience pay to play CoD primarily. And as his title has such a large majority of the Live users are primarily on Live to play Kotick's game, he asserts that Microsoft should be kicking back some of that revenue, for the priveledge of hosting CoD.

Shelving the "Should XBL be free to play or payed" discussion for the moment, I'm most interested in his statement that 60% of the market on Live payes primarily to play CoD. While CoD does have it's moments, I find it massively humerous to make this kind of statement. This allusion claims that CoD is the Xbox juggernaut, and games like Halo, Gears, or Madden, which are massive online juggernauts, are such a huge minority to the greatness that is CoD. That the other franchises under his helm, such as Guitar Hero, are so massively underrepresented compared to CoD. That the market impact for games like Mass Effect, Fable, Fallout, or Assassin's Creed, which aren't primarily multi-player, are absolutely negligable. That XBLA games are a pittance compared to the greatness that is CoD.

But what do you expect from someone as delusional as Bobby "My dick is bigger than yours, so you should pay me for it" Kotick.

Personally I absolutely hope he gets his wish, that he suspends all CoD console game creations and makes his ultimate CoD MMO type game, gets his $15 a month, plus the hundreds of micro-transactions he'll load it with.......and it falls flat on it's face. That way Activision will finally be able to fire him and get someone who actually plays video games.

[MARDIGRA21]

This guy is a douche bag, he's talking shit about ea not ever going to beat the cod franchise also. Personally I wish he would charge to play his game, bc if he does he will lose alot of customers including me I refuse to pay for an online service that's supposed to be included in the game. This guy is just a greedy bastard

[MARDIGRA21]

Ea responds back to THE DOUCHEBAG

EA has hit back at Bobby Kotick in response to the Activision boss's comments that EA was "struggling" and "great people don't want to work there."

"Kotick's relationship with studio talent is well documented in litigation," an EA spokesperson told CVG this evening.

"His company is based on three game franchises - one is a fantastic persistent world he had nothing to do with; one is in steep decline; and the third is in the process of being destroyed by Kotick's own hubris."

Wow. Is it us or is this getting heated?

Kotick went on something of a verbal rampage in the latest issue of Edge Magazine and didn't make too many friends.

He also took pops at Vince Zampella, Jason West and Tim Schafer.

[DaCajun]

This guy is a douche bag, he's talking shit about ea not ever going to beat the cod franchise also. Personally I wish he would charge to play his game, bc if he does he will lose alot of customers including me I refuse to pay for an online service that's supposed to be included in the game. This guy is just a greedy bastard

It won't matter Mardi because people will pay look at how DLC used to be free on PCs now they charge you for it. To many people that don't know anything about gaming started playing now it's the cool thing to do, so the rest of us who have been around for decades have to pay for their lack of knowledge and eagerness to throw money away. No turning back the clock now. If they charge I guarantee half the people who bought MW2 will pay. EA is no better than activision no, they are reverting back to their old ways again since they are back in the top 5 publishers again. They don't care about gamers just the money gamers have, especially the casuals. Just my thought on it.

[Amiable Horde]

I am just a greedy bast*** so I for one will be a lost customer . This is absolutely redicilous. Welcome to a world where they have found a way to take away a natural freedom for consoles , multiplayer