I would just retire once I got up to 30m or so lol

Of course they are not happy. Little Bobby is the one getting the big buck.
It would be better that they spent more money on staff or in recruiting more people. Although I don't know if they are doing it or not.

That'd be fair, simply because they're the ones creating the product, and not him, at all. He's just gambling and hoping patiently for success. EA does make good products however, so the earnings aren't pulled out to thin air exactly to justify the raise. 

He should not get more than $500,000 a year, an put that ridiculous wage to creating a new innovative game or hire some talented developers. WHAT DID HE DO TO DESERVE $64 MILLION PER YEAR?!!! he don't do the hard work, hes only the ugly face of activision!

Agreed!  There is no reason any one person should ever make that kind of money*

*Unless they have cured Cancer, or AIDS or something like that.

I know it make me sound like a Marxist - but seriously, the people that do the hard work are the reason the company makes money.  I thought Google set a good example when they gave everyone in the company bonuses.

Seriously, they could make a whole bunch of new games with $56 million dollars.  (His raise) and if you can't live on $8 million a year - then you are just rediculus.

American business...giving you less for more and paying their fat cats for giving people a dumbed down product. Welp people buy the product.

I saw that as 2 guys getting tired of working in one place and taking their closest people with them. Activision did withhold bonuses from them, but that was because they were talking with EA. The fact that they even had bonuses coming just speaks to my point. It's not as if these guys work for peanuts. They are compensated well and if their game meets criteria they get a bonus, same as any other publisher it seems.

I think he means to say that he wishes the most profitable companies had better business practices.

I join you in recognising that that is pretty unlikely, but I would rather like it as well.

Given $55.9M of it is in shares this is likely to be a one time thing and was probably in his contract from the beginning. Something like once he's been CEO for X years then he will get Y% of company shares. I doubt he'll be in line for $55 million in shares every 5 years. But it would be nice for that share offer to be in every employee's contract, obviously not $55 million each, but maybe $10K in shares after X years of loyal service.

His $16 million annual bonus is yet to come, of course.

oh man i wish the world was more like this, and maybe also a few million went to developers at the company trying new ideas and seeing if any of them stick which could create new ip for profit in the long run.