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EA Responds to Kotick Comments

By james_fudge

Electronic Arts vice president of communications Jeff Brown has some choice words for Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick. Earlier today Kotick told Edge Magazine that good developers don't want to work for the publisher, among other things.

Brown countered, saying that Kotick's hubris was killing Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, and World of Warcraft.

"Kotick's relationship with studio talent is well documented in litigation," Brown said, referring to Activision's latest lawsuit with developer Infinity Ward over the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare franchise and previously with Double Fine over Brutal Legend.

"His company is based on three game franchises – one is a fantastic persistent world he had nothing to do with; one is in steep decline; and the third is in the process of being destroyed by Kotick's own hubris."

Ouch.

Source: IGN - thanks Andrew Eisen.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on September 27, 2010 (boomark / email).