Although he wants to continue having relations with Sony in the future.
Bobby Kotick, CEO de Activision Blizzard.
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The purchase of Activision Blizzard is being, without a doubt, the event of the beginning of this year 2023, something that is necessary to praise, taking into account that the official announcement took place during the past year. Every time it seems that we are closer to its approval, and therefore closer to this swing of executives accusing each other of affecting the free market of video games. Now a person who has been kept in the dark for a long time has spoken, and that is that everyone expected Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activision Blizzard, made statements from the beginningbut it seems that he decided not to intervene, or at least not to do much.
Now, we cannot say that he has intervened directly, since he has not given a press conference or anything similar. Instead, he decided to send an email to the Activision Blizzard workers, in which he basically talks about Sony’s obstacles to the purchase by Microsoftbut not content with this, he ended up releasing this email so that the whole world could see it.
Next, we will tell you what the content of said email is, although we already Can you imagine what he is saying?.
Lots of criticism of Sony
As can be read on an official Activion Blizzard website, in this email Bobby Kotick lists, while criticizing many of the arguments that Sony has given against the purchase of this company by Microsoft. Among them, we can highlight two, the first being the issue that games would arrive in worse conditions on PlayStation, in addition to the fact that They admitted not wanting a deal for Call of Dutybut rather they wanted to stop the purchase.
In the first case, he basically argues that they work to offer the best possible version to all their players, but it was with the second statement that he criticized Sony the most. Specifically, in this email he comments that this is “a disappointing attitude on the part of a partner for more than thirty years”, but then he lowers his tone stating the following: “… we will not allow Sony’s attitude affects our long-term relationship“.
This makes it clear that Kotick’s current view of Sony is not the best, mainly because he wants the purchase to go through, which would bring great games to Xbox Game Pass, but he also seems to want maintain your good relations with Sony in the future.
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