Investors are concerned with the disparity between the salaries of staff versus that of CEO Bobby Kotick.
Rockstar has launched an official marketplace for "every server and every player" to buy mods: Cfx Marketplace.
I wonder how much of this isn't just taken work of others who have modded for free.
Edit: Also, great way for R* to take popular ideas and build them into GTAVI based on demand.
What I see happening here is, R* is going to ban mods in GTA6 UNLESS you buy them from the marketplace and R* then gets a cut of that sale.
Ah, perfect timing with them taking down the Bully online fan mod. Greedy a$$ company.
Yep, right there with you. I'll happily donate to a mod creator if it looks really cool, or if I enjoy it. But expecting payment up front? Nope, not touching it.
I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.
Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/servers.
I have to guess to a degree yes. It'd be pretty hard to "force" paid mods for single player when modding files locally on your own machine, but much easier for servers they'll control. So perhaps this is their soft launch ahead of GTA6 online and they'll clamp down more tightly on non-official servers going forward? Ever since they've become a 1 or 2 property studio, I haven't really cared much for Rockstar stuff, so I'm not entirely up on everything surrounding this. Sounds like it has the potential to be problematic further down the line, but right now fairly easy to ignore...I think lol.
Former CEO describes lawsuit filed by Swedish pension fund as a "collateral attack" on Activision Blizzard.
Kotick Made $155 million from MS in the buyout, the little b*tch needs to stop whining. Thanks to this Microslop deal and massive industry consolidation thousands upon thousands of devs and other workers lost their livelihoods. This greedy piggie pervert needs shut up and f-off.
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Oh please,
The shareholders are only NOW concerned about Kotick getting too much money?
I'm not a genius but I bet this is more along the line of he's getting too much money in comparison to the shareholders as opposed to the workforce.
Because let's be real here, the shareholders had no issue with getting THEIR giant cuts of the profit off the developers backs all these years.
Kotick needs a pay cut for sure same way most CEOs take too much, but these shareholders need to stop this "holier than thou" act like they aren't part of the problem as well.
Just give the money to employees and make cod f2p at this point.
Raising a companies’ cap from 10 million to 53 billion seems to warrant the salary in my opinion. The pay cut should depend on the overall percentage reduction they would expect him to take, plus if any of that would potentially be turned into incentive bonuses under his leadership
I think he should be fired, he fired 800 people last year that made that money so he can get a bonus.
Also I think Blizzard shareholders has the right to vote out a ceo they dont like.
Bobby Kotick is a blight on the entire Industry.