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So, How Much Did Bobby Kotick Make From Modern Warfare 2?

5:00PM November 13, 2009 | Luke Plunkett

We know Activision made a ton of money from the launch of Modern Warfare 2, but just how much did the company’s much-loved boss, Robert Kotick, manage to score for himself? Here’s a hint: loads.

Flush with the success of the launch, Kotick this week offloaded almost two million Activision stock options he’d held since 2000. When they were worth $US1.03 each. In this post-Modern Warfare 2 world, however, they’re worth around $US11.50.

Want me to do the math for you? Subtract the $US2 million strike price from the equation and Kotick earned himself just over $US20 million. In less than a week.

Think he’s an asshole? He can’t hear you. His mansions are insulated with money.

Activision CEO reaps $US20.2 million in three-day stock sale [GameSpot]

Comments

  • Aaron Clement

    November 13, 2009 at 5:25 PM

    So he hates us all, but loves our money?

  • DerangedStoat

    November 13, 2009 at 5:31 PM

    So he actually hasn’t made it just off Modern Warefare 2, he has made it off every successful Activision franchise since 2000…

  • Josh

    November 13, 2009 at 6:13 PM

    Too bad the people who actually worked on the game probably wont even collectively get that amount.

  • Jay

    November 13, 2009 at 6:29 PM

    Smart man. +1 i mean +20,000,000 for him.

  • stuart jarvis

    November 13, 2009 at 6:30 PM

    yer all that money and thay cant even give us decent game play on psn

  • Ribs

    November 13, 2009 at 7:02 PM

    Tyrants always fall.

  • Newguy

    November 13, 2009 at 7:43 PM

    Well MW3 pretty much got comfirmed.

  • shawn

    November 13, 2009 at 9:28 PM

    hope he invests that in the ‘lets not make game development fun’ foundation along with the IW’s ‘lets treat PC games like ****’ group

  • Snacuum

    November 13, 2009 at 9:41 PM

    He’ll hear me when I punch him in the face.

  • Deadlydorito

    November 14, 2009 at 12:12 AM

    I want to marry his children.

  • Cameron Chu

    November 14, 2009 at 8:47 AM

    Put it this way; his investment in 2 million Activision stocks indirectly paved the way for the development of the video games due to that surge in funding! And now he’s reaping the benefits eleven-fold in just 9 years..

    • Tom

      November 15, 2009 at 12:27 PM

      They were stock options. Unlikely he paid anything for them until he cashed them out.

    • boc

      November 15, 2009 at 2:46 PM

      Did he actually invest 2 million of his own money to get those shares? Or was he given them as part of his employment package?

      Also 2 million shares at a dollar each is not much of a cash infusion. Especially when many games these days cost way more than 2 million dollars to make.

      Anyway, the people up the top make way too much way too easily.

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