Activision Blizzard to separate from Vivendi in $8.2 billion deal

One interesting thing though is most of their salary (the two guys mentioned in the article) are in performance related bonuses. So if the company does good, they make money. If the company does bad, they will lose a truckload of their own cash.

good that they can stay independent.

Does anyone else find it interesting that 2 men, alone, can pony up 100 million dollars to secure this deal? Their own money nonetheless. Kotick is a fat little greedy bastard that I'm sure someone, somewhere is getting knifed in the back for this deal. How about these two guys come up with a way to support gaming and give back to communities that really need it. Medical aid, food, help with shelter for women and children. The fact that they have this kind of money riding off the coat tails of devs is horrendously sad. Why don't the devs see this kind of money back? I'm disgusted by the whole thing in general.

Activision: At least we're not EA.

Bobby Kotick is still working for them though...so...this isn't really GREAT news. It would be good news if they brought themselves back, and dumped the assholes like Kotick.

I think this is good news?

I know a lot of people may think this is bad, but i think this is a step in the right direction for Activision. A little more independence

If you read the New York Times article you will see that Vivendi is a sinking ship. So I think they just want to get rid of extra baggage.

Things are only gonna get worse in terms of Activision games.

@Pilgrim117

....WOW and D3 are Blizzard creations...

Now Blizzard just needs to separate from Activision, and gamers all over the world will throw parties.

Activision pulls Blizzards Strings... Not Vivivndi. Nothing exceptional is going to change with Kotick running the show

D3 still sold 10 million copies. WoW still rakes in a mind boggling amount of money per month. Sc2 is still in the top 3 most watched competitive games. They're still going strong, and I predict they will perfect their games with the next round of expansions.

why not blizzard try to separate from activision ? -_-

yay cod for 84 more years........................

Activision is so indie.

Somehow i read the headline and misinterpreted that Blizzard and Activision are the ones to separate. What wishful thinking. But a man can wish for it, no?

Part of me applauds the Corporate Brass spending some of their own cash as a part of this venture; the other part of me is appalled that they make enough to contribute such high numbers.

I dont like mr. Kotick making money...

I was wondering if Microsoft would have a hand in this. They do not have much in development houses but buying Activation/Blizzard would give them a huge lead in most first party games, and Microsoft has the money.

But then again Microsoft is a bottom line business and this would cost too much for them to get their investment back fast enough.

I have a feeling this is even more bad news for Blizzard and their products...Already you can see blizzard trying to nickle and dime their customers to death with the opening of their ingame cash shop, asking ridiculous prices for items that are purely cosmetic.

The economy is failing, debt is increasing worldwide. Poverty is rising. Companies are losing money each year. This only increases the desperation of companies which will do anything to stay afloat.

I expect more DLC, and money grabbing measures than before. This does not bode well for Blizzard or gamers.

oh no now shareholders are gonna want COD to be the same every year

Blizzard needs to separate from ActivCOD/Satan incarnate.

The good life of Kotick....