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Most hated man in gaming?

Uwe Boll (Movie director) 22 8.73%
 
John Riccitiello (EAGames CEO) 4 1.59%
 
Jack Thompson (Anti-gaming activist) 63 25.00%
 
Bobby Kotick (CEO of Activision) 130 51.59%
 
Michael Pachter 19 7.54%
 
Other (Name in thread) 11 4.37%
 
Total:249

Today I read an old article by Kotaku in which they named Bobby Kotick the most hated man in gaming. But then I started to think I myself don't think Bobby Kotick is alone in being hated infact I may think someone else is. So I decided to compile a list which is probubly missing some hated individuals. But I thought it would be interesting to see who VGChartz users deem the most hated man in gaming.

Your choices are

Uwe Boll

Uwe Boll is a hated director , hated by many gamers because he has single handedly ruined over half a dozen video game franchise movies. Most notably was his biggest failure (Financially) BloodRayne but he also ruined Postal , FarCry , House Of The Dead, Alone in the dark just to name those publically humiliated. If you have seen any of his movies you will agree that he did not give the franchises justice but is that enough to make him the most hated man in gaming?

John Riccitiello

A man who once left the most powerful game publisher (At the time) then came back to lead the company as CEO was one of the most hated men in the industry. I remember a few years before Activision became so hated and Bobby Kotick took his position John Riccitielo was one of the most hated men in the industry. He wasn't present when EAGames tried to take over UbiSoft in 05 but he came back in 2007 to take alot of heat. Is he the most hated man in gaming?

Jack Thompson

One of the most hated men in gaming is Jack Thompson, an ex attorney who has talked about gaming as a great evil. Thompson blames Columbine and pretty much any and every violent act on video games. If theirs something wrong this man will find a way to blame video games and gamers. Jack even went as far to suggest that gamers should "Go to Hell". Is his anti-gaming activisim enough to make Thompson the most hated man in gaming?

Bobby Kotick

Current CEO of the biggest third party publisher in the gaming industry. As such Kotick is universally hated for moves his company makes. Moves such as cutting Inifinity Ward founders out of their royalties or milking too many franchises or merging with Blizzard. Bobby Kotick was named the most hated man in gaming by Kotaku, do you agree?

Michael Pachter

Michael Pachter is pretty much the lead video game analyst for Wedbush Morgan. He tells investors and the world which games are going to be a hit and which ones aren't. Pachter sways millions of dollars daily following his intellectual insight. He is so famous that he has his own show on GameTrailers.com and has a cult following. However Mr.Pachter has angered many gamers by doom and glooming their consoles of choice. Mainly Nintendo fans hate Pachter as he's always said the Wii would fail, WiiHD is on the way, 3DS could fail. But not only Nintendo fans hate Mr.Pachter but many Kinect and Move fans do too. Is this enough to make him the most hated man in gaming?

 

After having a careful look at all of the individuals above, who do you name the most hated man in gamingSo why did you choose who you chose, what makes him worse then the others on the list?



-JC7

"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer

 

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Rico. Tingle :P



the list is missing Yoichi Wada from Square Enix..



 

Face the future.. Gamecenter ID: nikkom_nl (oh no he didn't!!) 

NiKKoM said:

the list is missing Yoichi Wada from Square Enix..


I could only list so many so I picked the most hated (To my knowledge) and decided to ask everyone their opinions. For you I'd suggest voting other.



-JC7

"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer

 

I would have to respond "Other" and nominate Yoshio Sakamoto. Kotick and the other 2 businessmen are excuseable because they are coming at it from the business side and rightfully could care less about what some lone or group of forumgoers say about them because they are not the one's creating the profits and taking the heat. Thompson is a nutcase and no nutcase should be given one iota of attention because that is what all nutcases are after. Pachter is an analyst and every analyst is wrong at some point, some analyst more than others.

I hate Yoshio Sakamoto the most in gaming and I think he should do the right thing in owning up to destroying the Metroid franchise at his retirement ceremony. Sakamoto is past his prime, at a stage in game development where he creates games for himself, and has been upstaged in his own creation (Metroid series) by the man who recruited him, Shigeru Miyamoto.

I reserve future nominations for Hideo Kojima and Peter Molyneux. Kojima is the epitome of a game developer who should be a movie director. Every single Metal Gear Solid game after MGS1 has had an increase in the length of cutscenes. By the time MGS5 comes about, I will not be surprised if it is a 4 hour long cutscene punctuated by occasional button presses to continue onto the next scene.

Molyneux is third on the hate list because of his dastardly promotional skills. Molyneux gives way too many interviews while a game is in development leading people like me to want his game, only to find out that it is not half as good as he promoted it be when it is released and reviewed. Furthermore, Molyneux like Sakamoto and Kojima is well past his prime. He needs to retire as a head developer and let the young lions take over the pride before the pride dies off completely due to the old lions stubbornly hanging onto their power for ego purposes.



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Easy, Jack Thompson.



Atto Suggests...:

Book - Malazan Book of the Fallen series 

Game - Metro Last Light

TV - Deadwood

Music - Forest Swords 

Kotick.

All of these men are jackasses but Kotick is a special brand of jackass.  Whenever he opens his mouth, there are 1000's upon 1000's of comments about how he's killing gaming in some way, shape or form.  It takes a certain type of man to do that.



Pixel Art can be fun.

Bobby Kotick - he is hated and deserved to be hated. His introduction is a bit of an under-statement. You should also include how he wishes to bypass consoles through more accessories or his wish to make money out of the fact that people play his games online.



Bobby Kotick is many ways worse  than Jack Thompson. At least with Jack Thompson you know which side he is on, but Bobby Kotick is draining this industry for all it is worth before moving on.

Many of you know that California is currently in a position in which the ESA is fighting California's Governor over the sales of games to minors in the Supreme Court. ESA is an organization that represents the video game industry no matter what the situation is, and if they win no one benefits more than Activision. Yet Bobby Kotick withdrew their membership from ESA  a couple of years ago because its not in their "best interests".

Kotick and Activison's membership to the ESA should not be a matter of choice, since they are the largest publisher and have the largest impact on the industry. Lets not forget the controversy they caused with the airport level in MW2, only to have ESA jump to the scene and help when things got a bit hot.



Peter Molyneux - God i Hate this guy .... he builds up his games like there god's gift to the world and the way he was backing Kinect (Natal at the time) saying, and i quote "this type of technology has never even been thought of before" WTF was he thinking, either it was just a blatent marketing trick or he's never been outside of his house. I REALLY HATE HIM.

 

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