Call of Duty is probably experiencing its worst moment, at least in terms of reception by critics and the public, and apparently Bobby Kotick is also among the causes of the debacle of the Activision saga.\r\nCall of Duty Modern Warfare III was just yet another unsatisfactory episode of the series in recent years, which in our review we defined as «an incredibly tired game» which offers «a dull and inanely propagandistic campaign – which reminds us how much the United States is the good incarnate without blemish, strictly weapons in hand – is accompanied by a multiplayer that is fun but which only recycles content already seen, and by a zombie mode that is insipid like never before”.\r\nThe last chapter of the series has hit such rock bottom that even other exponents of the world of video games have criticized him and made fun of him, including the voice actor of Kratos.\r\nAnd the blame for this decline is to be placed on Bobby Kotick, as reported by a former developer (via Eurogamer).\r\n«I worked as a programmer at Demonware for two years. Bobby’s decisions have made our games worse,” Christina Pollock, a former Call of Duty programmer, said on social media on the same day Kotick completed his final day as CEO of Activision Blizzard.\r\nSource of this statement is the same one that had told of Kotick’s desire to kill one of the Activision-Blizzard employees, which we reported at the end of last year.\r\nIn some subsequent posts on X, Pollock invited other developers to tell Kotick’s behaviors, and in particular the leadership and senior members of the teams:\r\n\r\n”With my seniority and the ease with which I have other opportunities, this gives me certain protections and security to do these things. If I had been fired, I would have had several other companies waiting in the wings, but that’s why it’s up to the senior staff to put their foot down. Juniors won’t feel safe doing it until their leaders do it first.”\r\n\r\nThe developer’s sincerity kicked off another very enlightening comment from behind the scenes of Overwatch 2’s launch, another failed title from Activision-Blizzard, via community manager Andy Belford:\r\n\r\n«I’m breaking my silence to share a fun fact: When we planned to launch Overwatch 2 on Steam, my team warned (months in advance) that we would be bombarded with negative reviews. We begged for more information, more details, and more resources to help us with the expected influx, but all were flatly denied. Steam moderation was turned over to the community team (not a community function at Blizzard), despite my refusal to want to expose my team members to that level of toxic content/posts. When asked who decided to launch it on Steam without further help: Bobby.»\r\n\r\n«This is just one example of the culture that Kotick has cultivated in AB», Belford elaborates: «the shit flowed downstream , usually ending up on the lowest paid and most overworked individuals. Management was too busy reacting to wildly wavering directions and decisions that didn’t make any sense.”\r\nBobby Kotick’s influence in the decision-making aspects of development were far more intrusive and damaging than we could have imagined, so while they continue discriminatory behavior on his part emerges, even against the elderly.\r\nIf, despite everything, you want to give the Call of Duty series a second chance, know that you can find the latest chapters on Amazon at the best price.