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Amidst troubling times at Activision-Blizzard, the company's new Chief Financial Officer Dennis Durkin has scored $15,000,000 in "awards" for taking on the position full time. Durkin took over the CFO job after Spencer Neumann was fired prior to taking the CFO position at Netflix.
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They can't. Bungie wasn't owned by Activision, they had an exclusive publishing deal with them that they cancelled (it ended in 2020 anyway).
Blizzard were never independent, their ownership moved from publisher to publisher until Activision bought them.
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“Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion”
"I should run a marathon backwards. So I could see what second place look like" Royce da 5'9"
"I need to finish" - Christian Wolff: The Accountant
Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing FO76 ATM.
Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
The issue being ATVI is awarding a fat signing bonus after revenue and stock prices have fallen and the company is issuing cost-cutting layoffs. It's never good PR when your company lays off worker bees while lining executive pockets. Companies do this regularly, but try not to get noticed doing it in this situation. ATVI is in the news so they got noticed, now they have to deal with that fallout. It's all a game of money, power, and politics.