Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay $35 million to settle a pair of charges related to complaints of workplace misconduct, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced.
It would be an American tragedy if you had to live in CA to get justice. The only justified scenario would be where the Spencer/Kotick acquisition deal is canned and he doesn't get half a billion dollars for tanking the company's to sell for a Golden parachute.
I’m not sure I’d say keeping him around permanently and have him raking in the rewards of Activision for the rest of his life is really justice.
Better to just finalize the acquisition, he still gets rich (he already is anyway) but then the employees don’t have to encounter him ever again and they will have far better working conditions.
"I guess they were counting on the deal to be approved by now in order to drop these charges."
Quite the opposite. Usually when a big corporation agrees to settle a multi-million dollar lawsuit/s, it's (generally speaking) because they don't want potential buyers to be swayed off with the notion of having to inherit said lawsuits (when you buy a company, you inherit their debts, as well as lawsuits).
Also, by hoping the deal (MS) doesn't go through, you're essential wanting Kotick's reign of terror at Activision to continue because the purchase is literally the only way he's stepping down. Leave your fanboy bias aside.
The deal going through or not doesn't affect any of these lawsuits. Even if Bobby left Activision the day the lawsuits were filed the lawsuits would still go on and he would still be on the hook. He was top dog while all this stuff was going on. He's responsible regardless of anything else.
Agreed. Their employees have tried to unionize but Activision does everything to block those attempts. Hopefully once the deal goes through they'll unionize all of Activision. I know Zenimax QA employees just unionized in December.
Not bad but we Bobby kotick to go as well would be amazing imo.
35m isn't much really, I'm kinda surprised by that number, especially in CA which claims to be pro-people anti-corporation.
I said it before and I'll say it again, the sooner this acquisition closes and Bobby is gone, the better.
This is probably one of the reasons they are crazy to be bought by Microsoft so they don't have to face all these situations.
I guess they were counting on the deal to be approved by now in order to drop these charges.
I hope the deal doesn't get approved so Bobby face justice and pay for every misconduct.
I'd be more happy with convictions and strong deterrent policies in the future but justice is a rare sight these days.
Does anybody know where that 35 mil will go? Among the workers? SEC?