B. Kotick, Pres of AV -- still greedy as fuck, man

This is just ridiculous. This is the same motherfucker that sent security to Infinity Ward's office, had West and Zampella (head of IW) removed and fired, and refused to pay them royalties because they wanted to expand on MW2 rather than dive head-first into yet another $60-fetching-sequel as ordered -- or "breach of contract" as Kotick called it.

The guy is mad he isn't getting his cut from all the XBL subscribers playing MW2. So he wants to be rid of consoles and move it all to these "NEW PCS THAT PLUG DIRECTLY INTO A TV WITH THE FOCUS OF GAMING" (A FUCKING CONSOLE, YOU PIECE OF SHIT?!) so that he can collect all the koinz and have complete control over everything. This guy is the motherfucking Hitler of gaming -- I'm telling you, dudes -- and he says it all LIKE IT'S A GOOD THING. This is the idiot Blizz sold out to.

The pres i dent of Activi son, Bobby Kotick, believes that the major ity of peo ple pay ing to useXBL are pay ing to play Mod ern War fare 2 — –Activi sion does not get a share of that profit.

“We’ve heard that 60 per cent of [Microsoft’s] sub scribers are prin ci pally on Live because of Call of Duty,” Kotick told FT. “We don’t really par tic i pate finan cially in that income stream. We would really like to be able to pro vide much more value to those mil lions of play ers play ing on Live, but it’s not our network.”

While one might feel bad that activi sion isn’t get ting in on it’s “share” of the prof its one does have to real ize that it releases $15 dol lar map packs that it sells mil lions of. Hav ing said this it isn’t like Activi sion is hurt ing for money.

Kotick’s solu tion is to turn to the PC, where it can set its own model for pric ing – not unlike what Bliz zard has done with World of War craft and Battle.net. Kotick stated that Activi sion would “very aggres sively” sup port the likes of HP and Dell in any attempt of mak ing an easy ‘plug-and-play’ PC that would hook up directly to the TV.

[Clipped from TheGamersBlog]
Related blog post: A short history of AV/Blizz, or how BNet 2.0 came to be