Developer Summerfall Studios Blames Bobby Kotick

Developer Summerfall Studios (creators of Stray Gods) reveals the large amount of money that Bobby Kotick will receive from the deal between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.

We are in critical times for the video game industry and Microsoft in particular. Yesterday a letter sent Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studiosannounced the closure of Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin studios.

Cause? Bethesda plans invest in licenses with high commercial weightwhich led to the final closure of Tango (The Evil Within, Hi-Fi Rush) and the reorganization of the Arkane Austin staff (Redfall).

Many industry figures are furious, like Dinga Bakaba (director of Arkane Lyon). Others, such as Shinji Mikami and John Yohanas, express great sadness at the news.

A developer from Summerfall Studios, the creators of Stray Gods, has revealed information that will undoubtedly anger many as it relates to Activision Blizzard’s purchase operation.

How much money will Bobby Kotick receive after the merger? This is a fact that was never known for sure, and now this developer has revealed this figure in light of the recent Xbox closures and cuts.

No more, no less than $375 million will be pocketed by the former president of Activision Blizzard, who left his post at the company last December.

Comparisons are hateful

Ethan Taylor, Stray Gods Cinematic Editor, heavily charged against Microsoft and Bobby Kotick on his personal Twitter/X account. Many people don’t know this Activision’s former president will receive a generous amount of money

for the purchase transaction.

They amount to $375 million, an amount equivalent to the sum of the development budgets of The Last of Us Part II and Horizon Forbidden West (200 million each).

Microsoft will pay this amount to Kotik. What if they used that amount of money for another purpose?

Notice what’s revealed Ethan Taylor on Twitter/X:

”Microsoft’s $375,000,000 payout to notorious douchebag Bobby Kotick could cover the estimated salaries of Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks employees combined for the next 17 and a half years.”.

There is data. If Microsoft allocated this amount to pay salaries, all Tango and Arkane Austin employees They could have been collected for more than 17 years..

This is a way to demonstrate that these decisions are not driven by financial aspects, despite the fact that the video game industry is going through a severe crisis. Many players became even more angry after hearing this news.

In connection with the merger of Activision Blizzard and Microsoft, the company’s first games are already starting to appear in the Microsoft Store (like in the Crash Bandicoot trilogy), so its arrival on Xbox Game Pass seems inevitable.