CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024
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Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."

CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are “very excited.”::Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are “very excited.”

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There are limits to this argument … at some point buying a shitty game is on gamers and they need to shop around for something else.

    There aren’t that many tricks prepurchase of a whole new game publishers can use. The big one is non-refundable preorders and at this point I’d hope people have learned their lesson on that (I still do it for, e.g. Bungie, but I don’t trust many studios to that degree).

    If you’ve got a refundable pre-order or you bought it post release and the game gets overwhelming negative reviews and you’re personally dissatisfied with your purchase, keeping the game is on you and presumably your friends that also did so. There’s plenty of other stuff out there to play, especially in the shooter space.

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Doesn’t this argument assume that all gamers are equal?

      Remember that gamers range across all ages, genders, and preferences of genre. There are vast quantities of gamers that will buy whatever is going to be popular at any given point, there a purists who require nothing but quality. There are nostalgists who crave what gaming once was.

      Buying habits are mostly dictated by the sorts of factors

      Saying rhat gamers need to vote with their wallet, or something to that effect as you have, doesn’t consider the fact that not every gamer is in it for the same reasons and capitalism will always cater for what is popular first and foremost. So if you aren’t someone who is happy to play fortnite or cod for the rest of your life without longing for change then you are likely part of a minorty. A subset of gamers who want things to get better even though that is very unlikely to happen.