November 13, 2009
Hot on the heels of trememdous first-day sales for the controversial sequel Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Activision's CEO and a member of the Activision board have exercised some lucrative stock options.
According to a Gameindustry.biz report, CEO Bobby Kotick made more than $20 million this week when he exercised options on close to 1.93 million shares of stock. The options, dated from April 18, 2000, allowed him to buy the shares for $1.03 and sell them for between $11.43 and $11.54.
Also this week, director Brian Kelly exercised options he received in 2004 and 2006 to clear about $10.5 million.
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Re: Activision CEO Cashes In
Good for them.....Although I think that money would be better given to the writers, producers, animation team & so on for their hard work on this game. But there is enough money going around for the ceo's & cfo's of alot of companies right now. But Activision & Infinity Ward have earned their money & not poking the government for money.......HA HA HA!!!! That's why games will always prosper, like the porn industry. HA HA HA!!!!!
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Your shit posts on Activision and Mw2 make me cry. I miss Dennis.
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This makes me feel dirty, and it also makes part of my soul die.
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Damn right it is!
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Um good for them?
If they blow their noses, be sure to tell us k?
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Here's an idea: If you see Activision in a headline, don't read it. They've been in the news a lot lately with their music games and MW2. Should we not cover it as news just because you are tired of the topic?
Now be a nice little troll and crawl back under your bridge. I'll find a nice Activision nose blowing story to feed you next week.
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Print shit, expect shitty comments. Not my fault it's a slow news day for you. You may have been trying to be smart-arse, but you sure weren't smart enough to not feed the troll.
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ah, but I knew I was feeding you. Even muck-divers need to eat. Every good site has its trolls and we try to take care of ours.
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Also, if you could maybe report on Koticks bowel-movements I'd be much obliged, especially if you can give details on what he ate the day before.
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If the value of his shit runs into the millions, most certainly.
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Well Modern Warfare 2 certainly did.
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And so our little give and take has come full circle. We will now return to our original programming.
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That...was....awesome 0-o
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