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There are perks to being a corporate big-shot. Free parking spaces, for one. Executive bathrooms are another. As are sexy assistants, immunity from prosecution for possession of cocaine and (hopefully) an understanding wife. Oh, and MASSIVE CORPORATE PAYOUTS. As part of the merger deal between their company and Vivendi Games, Activision execs Bobby Kotick and Brian Kelly will receive between them around $40 million in cash, shares and benefits. That's just between the two of them. Well, them and their understanding wives.
[Gamesindustry.biz]
Activision Bosses Make $40 Mil From Blizzard Merger
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9:20 PM on Mon Dec 10 2007
By Luke Plunkett
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lol brewsters millions
That's right boys! The color of money is GREED! I'm not mad at them though :)
Vote None of The Above! Damn I love that movie.
Kill and eat the rich, I say.
Yeah they really needed that pay raise.
At least it's for people who innovate.
As long as they're not cutting jobs or doing anything unsavory to maintain these high numbers of their income I'll be happy...
Love the Wu Tang tag. C.R.E.A.M. FTW!
Maybe they could actually pay their employees for all their long crunch hours with that money?
man! those guys are lucky... i mean geeze, understanding wives? if only we could all be corporate executives!
And they instantly start sending priceless stamps through the post so they can earn the full $400 million.
lol... i wish there was some kind of limit as to how much ceo's could steal from their companies :)
nice, grats to them.
in actual practice, no one man is worth that much to any organization. that money could fund a lot of great indie devs houses... a lot of great ideas
Well hopefully they spend it all and put it back into the economy instead of sitting on it and giving it to their kids.
I'm almost certain none of that money gets kicked back to the hardworking developers working their asses off in the trenches. Sad but it happens.
Well, now that they are rich, all of their games are going to suck, i suppose thats good.
Isn't $40 million a benefit on its own?
damn i hate old money
40 million?! That's, like, employing 200 of me! For a YEAR!
This tag made my month.
Dolla dolla bill y'all.
*chants* 10 million, 10 million, 10 million dollars!
10 million, 10 million, 10 million dollars!
Aaaannnnnyway...... Wow. I didn't expect such a large amount from this merger. Why don't the artists get that much? They are the ones doing the REAL work.
Somewhat similar to oil companies telling us they can't lower the price of gas and then have three record-breaking profit-laden quarters and giving a retiring CEO a $20M severance package. Must be tough.
RIP Pryor and Candy yo
So instead of using the $40,000,000 in cash they had to make better games or develop new IPs they decided to give it to the two highest paid people in the company who are already happy with their jobs?
Makes perfect sense.
God I hate that company. The bigger they get the shittier the games get. (except for COD4 I guess)
Damn, 40 mil could actually make a decent Tony Hawk game. (by a different developer of course)
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