Activision Gives $15 Million to New CFO While Making Their Developers Cut Costs

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[CIPHER]
- Ian Taylor
- FIFTHGRADE
- Thelionsam
- Shawn Duane Cottrell
[BIG BOSS]
- BobaFett912
- Daniele Andreuzzi
- FreedTerror
- Solid Jake
- Vin Giorgio
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- Patrick Huff
- Time Dragonlord
- Alex Moretti
- Joe Hunt
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[SourRobo]

You can buy 15million red dots with that kind of money.

[TheNeXusCore]

*Then the CFO leaves not too long after, getting paid $30 million and saying how he wasn't paid enough for his time in Activision*

[ORO]

Activision:
“Wow, we made hundreds of millions on this game. We should reinvest most of this for future development”
Also Activision:
*stuffs millions into their own pockets*

And they wonder why they are doing so poorly.

[Forcer]

Tomorrow’s news:
“Activision burns down multiple studios for insurance money.”

[Hornswroggle]

Whenever something like this happens I like to bring up one particular name:

*Saturo Iwata* (may he rest in peace), who, when Nintendo struggled between 2009 and 2012, took his ~10 Mil. $ salary *and cut it in half* voluntarily, all the while encouraging his fellow executives to do the same in order to make sure his workes would suffer no or minimal impact.

[Serahpin]

"On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer." Satoru Iwata (December 6, 1959 – July 11, 2015), former president of Nintendo

[emiliolopez]

Here lies the difference between Satoru Iwata and Bobby Kotick. Iwata was a game developer and worked his way up the corporate ladder. He proved he was an effective leader because he understood both sides of the game industry, business and actual game development. Long after he was a developer he still assisted in programming games even after he was named as CEO of Nintendo.

[UBR]

This is exactly what caused the first game crash!

[NightsoftInteractive]

The fact that a guy who probably never played a video game in his entire life, is making financial decisions and analysis for a gaming company is just absurd.
All those cooperate suits are just a waste of life.

[Khaisz.]

"We have no money, now excuse me while our CEO gets $15m (that we don't have) for no reason"

[Arcian]

"EA's the worst game company in the world? Not for long, they're not!" - Activision

[DNU]

Nintendo = President publicly apologizes for big time flop, cuts his salary to avoid firing people, single-handledy rescues company revenue

Literally Everyone else = Says development of games is costly, has deals with junk food companies, overwork their developers, force them to implement mxts at the risk of crunching, losing jobs and studio merging.

[nosoyporta]

Did they gave him a red dot with that tho?

[brosephnoonan]

Man, 15mil for doing literally nothing. I sure wish _I_ could be a shitty game publisher.

[tominatorxx]

They should have payed him in loot boxes...

[gabrieloviedocasanas]

*Activision announces Diablo immortal*
Wow really go wrong

*Activision dismisses employees to reduce costs.*
They are really falling apart

*Bungie abandons Activision*
HOLLY SHI- THEY LOST A LUNG

[deatheater]

I think the higher ups know activision is going down the drain so they are just milking the shit out of it and other business it has under its belt before it goes under.

[fluoridegood]

Lol the development budget for Witcher 3 was $30 million

[JamanWerSonst]

There is nothing a CFO could possibly do that would justify a $15 million paycheck.

Also, I like how QA is often viewed as a "non-essential" area by executives, and then they wonder why their buggy games don't score and sell well and come up with bullshit reason like "people don't want single player games anymore".