Xbox Makes Leadership Changes As Bobby Kotick Leaves Activision & Microsoft

Least surprising news.

Please however, let the door hit you on the behind as you leave.

Good riddance!

Thank god.

I may be a little dissapointed that team ledership is left untouched, but if it getting Bobby Kotick out of this buisness was the only thing achieved by the purchase of ABK it would still have been worth it!

When a big whale gets eaten by an even bigger whale then there is always a burp and a fart….

So whats next?
I really want them to take some staff from activision and put them in 343 to improve the team
Even more i want tryarch to make a halo game with a soldier as protoganist and make in COD style

Also we want new ips not just COD

Bobby gone! Xbox news just keeps gettin' better. Will miss Lulu, though.

I hope Bobby still gets sued and will lose some of the millions the guy has ‘earned’ in the recent period.

Might be the best news I've heard this month. Happy New Year!! Hope this doesn't shuffle down to lower branches/employees, but Activision Blizzard leadership had to go years ago.

@Friendly I doubt it, that 'lawsuit' was settled and no proof of any systemic issues were brought to court as 'evidence' so with them 'restructuring' and 'new' management to Answer to as part of the Microsoft company, they are unlikely to try and Sue him now he is gone.

I can't speak for anyone, but I think its a Massive 'win' overall for the employees of 'ABK' as its brought about 'change' for them and their 'future'. Kotick will be gone and they have a much 'bigger' support network, able to join Unions and of course MS's own working practices/policies which many were 'recommended' that ABK adopted and implemented which they supposedly have in the past year or so - You could say in 'preparation to bring them up to MS's standards but they say were 'recommended'.

So what benefit would dredging up the past do when things are 'changing' for the better for those that had to work in those environments - unless it's still persisting...

Sometimes its better to move on. Kotick will have to live with that 'stain' on his name regardless but the 'future' for ABK looks positive to me. Considering the 'size' of ABK, the amount of Studio's they had, and their 'output' - yet people complained about MS's when they had less than half the staff working on games!

I'll just join in with the previous posts and say about time and good riddance.
The accusations brought against ABK management would have made Kotick's position untenable long time in most businesses, but the game industry seems to operate by different standards unfortunately 😑.

Good riddance! I hope the door hits him hard on his way out.Christmas came early!

Shame his ass didn't get just straight fired and he likely walks away with fat stacks of cash. Just please let his exit from the games industry be final, horrible little *****

As Bobby and Lulu were closely connected, I'm thrilled to see both those dirtbags gone. Good riddance.

Hopefully we get more games that are not call of duty from Activision/Xbox now.

Nana nana
Nana nana
Hey, hey, hey
Goodbyyyeeeeee

As an aside, these two were far from the only toxic figures at Activision. I hope more of the leadership team that enabled some of this awful behavior is sniffed out and dealt with.

Whenever BC happens I'm there. Whenever they have some actually compelling IPs besides me kind of being interested in the future of Spyro but also not.

COD has enough multiplayer updates, cosmetics, warzone content it gets, let the studios breathe.

Thing is seeing as I haven't cared for many Xbox games changes over the years (not as annoyed of IP futures as Sony's though) cough Forza Motorsport and 8's direction, from the pathetic marketing, to the updates it gets which it's understandable it's a platform but still Motorsport 7 but minor changes so for a reboot it's a bit eh honestly. I didn't hate Motorsport 7, 5 I came around to and 6 I hate/was bored with and powered through. But for a reboot it feels like years of not much 'reboot' about it. Name only. It still has core elements like 5-7. It's not Ride 2, 3 and 4 are all completely different structured career modes. 4 & 5 being literally Forza Motorsport 1 & 2 like even and split screen showing how to make Turn 10 look like idiots for their pathetic game design. Sales sure, brand name sure, exciting game no.

I won't deny it will get better but enough for me to care nope I already gave up it offers me nothing of interest at all/I won't play platform/service games. I don't have much faith in them in that way, just maintaining/overseeing maybe. Whether I like their 'maintaining/overseeing' very unlikely they do anything to the games to step in and make me care at all and me to keep going third party or look up to certain games like Hi Fi Rush but only very few very so often.

Which Redfall and Bethesda's angle was clearly not great pushing Arkane to do something they aren't good at/never done before.

Not everything is a Hogwarts Legacy or Spiderman IP to save them regardless of experience with open worlds being very low to none at all.

Well your off lets see change in action and good luck to all.

Someone beat me to it but I am still gonna do it.

Na na na na
Heeeey eyyy
Good bye!

And good riddance.

The irony of these comments.....lolz

Makes sense, gotta clean house with the upper management.

@EvenStephen7 Thanks for pointing out that toxic individuals remain running some of teams. It sometimes seems this unfortunate truth is not acknowledged, or hidden as its inconvenient, so its good to see other people acknowledge it!

"there are no plans to change the "structure of how the studios and business units are run"."

Great, so they will continue to be *****, even under the Microsoft umbrella...

Bobby Kotock is hated and rightfully so but it's hard not to think about the massive impact he had on the industry. If it wasn't for his investment and leadership in Activision which was struggling with massive debt at the time, many of the hugely influence franchises might never have happened (Tony Hawk, call of duty, guitar hero, etc.). He was able to not only turn the company around to be profitable but made it able to expand to one of the biggest companies in the industry.

The current industry is probably better without him but it probably wouldn't be as good as it is now if he was never in it.