Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick on leadership change, Microsoft acquisition and next steps

Bobby Kotick, Activision Blizzard founder and CEO, joins 'Squawk box' to discuss his 32-year tenure leading the company, Microsoft's acquisition deal, future of Activision Blizzard, next steps for Kotick, and more.

[matthewhardwick]

This isn't exactly the "justice" that the employees deserve. But at the very least they won't ever have to see Kotick's face again.

[Orb]

I feel uncomfortable just looking at him

[charlesbarkson]

I miss the good old days when you could look up a image of Bobby and the majority of results were of him with horns, it was very fitting.

[kroto]

and for the record, he did not "found" activision or blizzard.

[PoliteElliot]

Bobby took a company with an almost flawless development record and devoted fanbase (Blizzard), and pi$$ed it all away. Still, the creep made a fortune doing it so he's a success(?).
This fortune he's greedily amassed actually makes him worthless as a person

[DoeFoot]

Sometimes evil people give off a vibe that something is seriously off about them. Bobby is one of those

[CasperTheGhost]

He's an awful person. The embodiment of modern capitalism.

[rockermortis]

For the record he never stepped down Microsoft fired him and now he is the CEO for Bungie and his will ruin destiny 2

[charlesbarkson]

When universally everyone is happy hes gone it really speaks how horrible bob here is. The only people that aren't cheering him leaving are the type of people who only see the world in $$. Good riddance and hopefully the replacement isn't just as bad but then again the bar has been dropped to challengers deep so I'm not holding my breath.

[StuartLugsden]

He's finally gone. End of an error.

[AntonioLoboRuiz]

This piece of sh*" out of Activision blizzard. All the planet was waiting for this moment.

[TombstoneTube]

“Vegan meal in the cafeteria” good one

[charlesbarkson]

He's very talented at hiding his devil horns

[whatchaMACALLEM-]

Thank the Lord. he single handely made and then ruined the call of duty franchise also ruined many other franchises. Hopefully he doesn't stay in the industry.

[sonjatodorov]

The tyrant has been taken down i dreamed of this moment lets hope our New ruler brings justice and Bobby may god have mercy on your soul

[-LightSmit]

They finally removed the bug from all their games？

[mattchadwick]

Is he really using the veteran thing for clarity right now??

[YouDontKnowJackDanie]

Veterans… wow! He feels that he needs some good karma 😂

[PerkinsVR]

buy indie games guys. people are out there makin the best games comin out these days right out of their basements with a shoestring budget, and triple A companies are just pumping billions of dollars into their games just to maximize marketing, microtransactions, CEO salaries, and probably money laundering. then paying developers peanuts to reskin the same engine for another yearly release.

[zlitebra]

Why does Activision, a company with a budget of billions, put so little money into the servers? We from the Balkans, Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Bosnia, Greece, Turkey... We play on servers that are 1800-2500 km away from us.A server in the Balkans would bring more money than any server in Europe.We are talking about over 100 million people here.