I need some views on Boby Kotick for an assignment I'm working on for college. Vent away! Thanks!

he's kinda like an evil villain but often makes PR blunders that make him look like a dick or even more of an evil villain.

the mother of all cunts.

This can end well.

He seems like an idiot.

Hmm, I don't really know him.

He's a business man. I'm sure every head of all game companies think the same way he does, he just vocalizes all of his crazy ideas.

He's one of the greatest business men of this, or any other generation.

I don't like him, nor do I care for the decisions he's made with Activision.  
 
That said, he's a millionaire many times over and I'm not....so I guess his decisions have worked out well for him. 

Bobby Kotick is a pretty cool dude, he kills children and may/may not be a gorgon.

He's not winning a popularity contest that is for sure. I wouldn't think ill towards him if it wasn't for his propensity for going out of his way to show how little he thinks of the medium and culture he works in.

Bobby is the live embodiment of Capitalism.
 
both good and bad sides

He is probably great in bed.

" @Mrskidders: and if he isn't, he has the money to make you lie about it...   I really don't think he helps activision at all. He may be good at the business side, but his stupid comments on monetising CoD etc just get gamers backs up and that wont help the company image. Just because they are the biggest third party publisher in the world doesn't mean they should act like everyone else is beneath them... "

Meh, his job isn't to win popularity contests. He's the sort of guy every big corporation needs to keep the bottom line in sight, and it's hard to argue that he's anything but brilliant at it. Of course, being brilliant at it means pissing off everyone else. So he does his job, and the general hate here for him proves it. Most gamers do not pay attention to him, and I'd guess 90% of people who buy Activision games wouldn't recognize the name if you said it to them. He's pretty invisible to anyone but the hardcore. Most people also don't much care about corporate image. They just want kick-ass games. So I doubt his general idiocy matters much in the grand scheme of things. If Activision thought they didn't need him, or that his presence was a net negative, he'd be gone. Yet, there he is, sitting on a pile of money as big as fuck.

Well bobby kotick is the devil. Not sure if that helps however it's true.  
 

He's a business man, he see's that a game is selling well and he'll release a new one year after year until the franchise is run into the ground and dies. See: Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero and soon Call of Duty.  The very few original IPs Activision releases, Singularity, are given no support and are basically sent out to die with no marketing of any kind. I honestly don't know how Blizzard are able to keep them back, there should be at least 3 Warcraft and 2 Starcraft spin offs by now.
 
He does his job too well, he doesn't play any games he just keeps the share holders happy, his lawyer department is bigger than his creative department and he'll sue anyone who gets in his way. He's the kind of guy this industry doesn't need.

" He's the kind of guy this industry doesn't need. "

I... love him.

I want Bobby Kotick to have my babies.

Don't you mean Robert Kodick?

He doesn't try to hide the fact that he's a greedy bastard, and will do whatever it takes to make the most money possible, no matter who he has to screw over.  He's easy to hate.

" Bobby Kotick is a pretty cool dude, he kills children and may/may not be a gorgon. "

I have a crush on him. 

He's fine in my book. The man knows how to make money and isn't afraid to show it.

He puts the $ in Activi$ion

A pure businessman, with no reverence for the industry he works in.  
 
That's just the straight facts. Opinion-wise, I think he's a problem because the same reason Spielberg, and summer blockbusters made hollywood crappy. 

I think he has no real understanding of the industry he works and that none of Activision's success can really be attributed to him.

seems to know what he is doing,

" the mother of all cunts. "

I love that guy, I hope people buy more map packs and DLCs to support his existence.

Thanks everyone for the feedback, it will be very useful!

I think Robert Kotick is a very good businessman, by far the person most synonymous with capitalism in the video games industry, someone who appears to lack knowledge of video games, someone who is not afraid of speaking of plans which may enrage consumers, someone who is loathed by a large portion of the more knowledgeable video game enthusiasts and a douchebag. People try to protect to protect him, saying it's his job to do what he does but that doesn't make him any less of a douchebag.

He directed his security staff to interrogate Infinity Ward employees for six hours in a windowless room.  He reduced many to tears.  This was a step in his overall goal of denying Infinity Ward their royalties from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2.  He is the most dangerous individual to the gaming industry in the present.  His attempts to steal more and more cash from gamers in the midst of a recession inspires disgust in me.  This is while he blatantly lies to the studios that work for him by denying them promised wages, and closes them down, in effect firing all employees, if they don't bend to his underhanded business tactics.  He is killing gaming on both the developer and consumer sides.  In conclusion, I hope to one day encounter him in a back alley.

He is the father of Jonathen Frakes.

He is the single person in the video game industry that has a big chance of dying by lynching by gamers. 

To be honest he is a fantastic businessman and makes shitloads of money for everyone associated with Acitvision. Doesn't stop him being generally bad for the video game world with his open dislike towards innovation and creativity. He is also constantly shitting on small developers by basically saying 'you don't work for me, therefore you're not worthwhile' (not an actual quote).
 
Overall I really don't like him and his approach to video games, but doesn't stop him making a heap of cash.

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I had coffee with him last Friday, and he called me out on not wearing a tie. What a douche!

"I ain't no suit-wearin' businessman like you... you know I'm just a gangsta I suppose..."