So I was reading this malstrom blog entry http://seanmalstrom.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/dont-bother-trying-to-defend-bobby-kotick-ceo-of-activision-blizzard/, and apparantly he blames Bobby Koltick for splitting Starcraft2 into three games.

Here is the relevant quote from the article. "It is Bobby Kotick who is responsible for Starcraft 2 being released in three versions and having LAN removed (and God knows what else, we still haven’t heard the details on the new stuff of BattleNet 2.0 which we will likely have to pay for). And gamers are definately pissed about that."

I was just wondering. Can this be confirmed or is it just speculation? Because from what I know, Blizzard still run themselves and would not make Activision-like desicions. OR is Blizzard's autonomy from Activision only applying to game design?

Is there anly link that can verify this?

Now that's one Malstrom article I could get behind.

So now we can blame Wiifit and Kotick

Kotick is possibly the worst cunt we have ever had in gaming.

So it would seem.

But I still want to find some source as to how Kotick could affect Blizzard.

I think it's just speculation.

He's the only totally honest CEO I've seen besides Iwata. He admits in that article that his stratefy is to reject games, even profitable ones, unless they can be turned into $100m+ yearly franchises. He's wrong, yes, but if all CEOs behaved like him we could see which companies to avoid before they stop caring about customers (e.g Apple, music companies, Comcast)

Agreed.

So Kotick is now the object of hate by Sony fanboys...lol.

Malstrom is a Sony fanboy? Think before you write.