VGC: "Activision Blizzard claims its CEO Bobby Kotick hasn’t discussed with Microsoft whether he will remain at the company after the proposed acquisition deal.
According to a new line added to a filing by Activision Blizzard’s 8-K filing (as spotted by Axios’ Stephen Totilo), the company claims that Kotick and Microsoft didn’t discuss his plans before the acquisition announcement, and still hasn’t.
“No discussions or negotiations regarding post-closing employment arrangements with Microsoft occurred between Microsoft and Mr Kotick prior to the approval and the execution of the merger agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby, or have occurred subsequent to such approval and execution, through the date hereof,” it claims."
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.
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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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There should be nothing to discuss... the guy's gotta go.
He makes money. He will stay. Anyone who thinks Microsoft has moral high ground over any other cesspool of a company, is comically deluded.
Kotick is a slug, and you will see him get a new title to deflect from the fact that he'll be staying right where he is in the hierarchy, if not even higher.
He’s gone. If him staying wasn’t even discussed as a part of the contract he’s gone. They wouldn’t pay him what he wants. Let’s just hope he doesn’t go to another pub we like because he will get another job quickly. Hopefully it’s something stupid like mobile games pub.
He allowed Activision to be in this shit storm of a mess he has to go enjoy your job while you have it. Moment Microsoft takes control in 2023 there might be an article of Kotick is either being sacked or forced to retire from Activision.
Probably need to make sure the deal goes through first right? All opinions aside anyway?