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EspadaGrim on 01 April 2023
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Ryuu96 said:
shikamaru317 said:

I'd guess it's more likely that Lulu or Mike Ybarra are chosen to run ABK after Bobby Kotick takes his $400m and leaves in the wake of the acquisition. Both Lulu and Mike are higher up the totem poll than Rod is, Rod is only head of the Diablo team at Blizzard, Mike is President of Blizzard while Lulu is the Chief Communications Officer and Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs for ABK overall.

Lulu? No chance Imo, I mean no offence but I really can't see a Communications Officer being made leader of the entire company...Think they'd want someone who is closer to the trenches of videogame development. It'd be almost like making Aaron Greenberg the Head of Xbox.

This is further proving why ABK shouldn't exist post-transaction though! It should just be Activision and Blizzard separated from each other, like lets say Mike takes over to run ABK then someone has to replace Mike and lets say that is Rod then someone has to replace Rod, Lol. Same case if someone from Activision takes over.

For real though, I think Rob Kostich will stay as President of Activision and I hope ABK is dissolved and Activision-Blizzard split.

ABK 100% need to be split post merger, some people here suggested that MS shouldn't buy more studios since Matt Booty might not be able to handle that many teams and yet ABK are over 13k employees with Blizzard having the majority at over 5k. Blizzard can handle themselves since the vast majority of the teams are in a campus and someone needs to be put in charge of Activision, Spencer will likely be involved in Activision specifically day one because of this https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xboxs-phil-spencer-says-hell-let-activisions-studios-work-on-a-variety-of-franchises/

Last edited by EspadaGrim - on 01 April 2023