19th January 2022, 1:59 PM
So much to think about here...
Bobby Kotick is being directly rewarded for the horrible things he did and the culture he encouraged in that company. I mean this. This purchase didn't happen without what happened to the stock. The bad publicity we fostered has directly encouraged this behavior in other CEOs once they see just how well Kotick is going to profit from all this. It will be the most wonderous and dream fulfilling "firing" anyone could even conceive of. He hurt employees and women in particular, and his every wish is being fulfilled as a result. To put it another way, karma itself is rewarding him for his evil by having all of his joys come true at once. Those he wronged will be all the worse off when he's gone. This is... a miserable world we live in, isn't it? Even our efforts to hold him accountable have only ENABLED this, indirect though the cause and effect may be, they are inextricably linked.
Meanwhile, this singular purchase totally 10x the price Pixar or Lucasarts or Marvel cost Disney to buy. No, this is "Buying Fox itself" money. The end result? Whatever you may think of Microsoft, especially these days, they have "won". I don't mean they won the console wars. I mean they won on a meta level. They won the gaming industry now and extended for decades to come. The console wars are nothing to this behemoth. One console may fail and another succeed, and it matters not to this cosmic being roaming among the lessers like Sony and Nintendo. They are "above" that now. A few failed console generations can't bankrupt them any more, or even come close to it.
The next purchase is nigh. It'll take someone playing in MS's court to do it, but someone is going to end up buying EA. That'll be it then.
Bobby Kotick is being directly rewarded for the horrible things he did and the culture he encouraged in that company. I mean this. This purchase didn't happen without what happened to the stock. The bad publicity we fostered has directly encouraged this behavior in other CEOs once they see just how well Kotick is going to profit from all this. It will be the most wonderous and dream fulfilling "firing" anyone could even conceive of. He hurt employees and women in particular, and his every wish is being fulfilled as a result. To put it another way, karma itself is rewarding him for his evil by having all of his joys come true at once. Those he wronged will be all the worse off when he's gone. This is... a miserable world we live in, isn't it? Even our efforts to hold him accountable have only ENABLED this, indirect though the cause and effect may be, they are inextricably linked.
Meanwhile, this singular purchase totally 10x the price Pixar or Lucasarts or Marvel cost Disney to buy. No, this is "Buying Fox itself" money. The end result? Whatever you may think of Microsoft, especially these days, they have "won". I don't mean they won the console wars. I mean they won on a meta level. They won the gaming industry now and extended for decades to come. The console wars are nothing to this behemoth. One console may fail and another succeed, and it matters not to this cosmic being roaming among the lessers like Sony and Nintendo. They are "above" that now. A few failed console generations can't bankrupt them any more, or even come close to it.
The next purchase is nigh. It'll take someone playing in MS's court to do it, but someone is going to end up buying EA. That'll be it then.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)