Activision’s Latest Employee Letter Calls Out Sony For “Disappointing Behavior”

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Activision Blizzard King CEO Bobby Kotick has shared his latest employee letter to the public, and they do not hesitate to let it known what they think about Sony.

For those not in the know, the company does make some of its internal communications public, using their own Substack. This new letter, as you may imagine, is about the company’s pending deal with Microsoft.

Much of the letter covers bases we have already covered ourselves. The acquisition has been momentarily paused while regulators around the world review its terms for approval.

Notably, Bobby talked about the European Commission and the UK CMA, and approval from Japan’s JFTC. Activision also told employees about the ten year deals Microsoft struck for Call of Duty with Nvidia, Nintendo, Boosteroid, and Ubitus.

What’s really notable are the parts of the letter where they talk about Sony:

“You may have seen statements from Sony, including an argument that if this deal goes through, Microsoft could release deliberately “buggy” versions of our games on PlayStation.

We all know our passionate players would be the first to hold Microsoft accountable for keeping its promises of content and quality parity. And, all of us who work so hard to deliver the best games in our industry care too deeply about our players to ever launch sub-par versions of our games.

Sony has even admitted that they aren’t actually concerned about a Call of Duty agreement—they would just like to prevent our merger from happening.

This is obviously disappointing behavior from a partner for almost thirty years, but we will not allow Sony’s behavior to affect our long term relationship. PlayStation players know we will continue to deliver the best games possible on Sony platforms as we have