EA on Kotick: He's Destroying Activision Games

Electronic Arts comes out fighting

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EA on Kotick: He's Destroying Activision Games
Forget platform wars, now it's Publisher Wars - where the fanboys are even more vicious. This time round EA's vice president of communications, has responded to Activision CEO Bobby Kotick's tirade against the Electronic Arts.

Jeff Brown of EA stated, "Kotick's relationship with studio talent is well documented in litigation," in reference to such situations has the suits versus Double Fine over Brutal Legend, and Infinity Ward's Zampella and West.

Brown continued, in a statement to the press, with no punches pulled, stating, "His (Kotick's) company is based on three game franchises – one is a fantastic persistent world he had nothing to do with; one is in steep decline; and the third is in the process of being destroyed by Kotick's own hubris."

In order then, World of Warcraft, Guitar Hero and Call of Duty. We expect either Mr Kotick's stockholders to rein him in, or for a further outburst.

So, is this the way for executives to lead a relatively new industry into maturity? Comments in the forum.

Comments

discordia1337 28 Sep 2010 10:33
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http://www.1up.com/news/uwe-boll-beats-crap-journalist

They should reproduce this Kotick versus a series of people who don't quite like him. XD
gingineer 28 Sep 2010 11:08
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can someone make an XBLA beat em up for the two of them?
deleted 28 Sep 2010 13:40
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Kind of embarrassing, Kotick is like the guy you take out on the piss because he makes you laugh, not because he is funny but because of his stupid statements and his eagerness to be one of the boys, in this case his eagerness to be one of the Gamers.
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