'elon Truly Would Be The Best Owner Of Any Game Company,' Claims...

After more than 30 years of running Activision, from 1991 to 2023, you might think that Bobby Kotick knows a thing or two about what it takes to run a successful videogame company.

He's a controversial figure, but Kotick also bought a failing company for $500,000 and turned it into a publisher that Microsoft spent $75.4 billion acquiring.

After listening to him suck up to Elon Musk on the Rushmore podcast (cheers TWIV), however, it sounds like he might have lost his strong instincts.

"Elon truly would be the best owner of any game company," he said. "No, he would. There's not a person who'd be more qualified to build and run a game company."

Musk's videogame credentials largely amount to liking videogames. He might actually be quite good at Quake and Diablo 4, too, though it's really hard to tell given his penchant for paying people to play for him.

In January, he streamed some Path of Exile 2, but seemed confused by basic game mechanics, which would have been fine if he hadn't been boasting about his skills, or if he wasn't playing on a geared-up, high-level character.

It turns out that he used an account boosting service, which he also admitted he did in Diablo 4. The 54-year-old billionaire didn't really see a problem with it, though. "It's impossible to beat the players in Asia if you don't, as they do!"

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On the podcast, Musk still claimed to be "pretty good at videogames".

Musk also discussed one of his favourite videogames, Deus Ex, and once again used it to criticise the Covid lockdowns. Musk's failure to understand his favourite game has been going on for a while, and it's prompted Deus Ex writer Austin Grossman to call him out a few times.

Source: PC Gamer