
I love fighting games, soulsbornes, and adaptations of Warhammer 40,000.
to be fair (and I don't know that I need to be fair to C-levels), but this is something CEOs routinely do? https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1810806&owner=exclude
Oh totally, and it's a fairly minor amount too - the article mentions that he moved only 2k shares a few days ago when he's moved 50k over the past year. Sometimes when running a corporation into the ground you need a little liquidity. Yachts are expensive, and not every executive of a major videogame publisher gets residuals for appearing in Moneyball. I get that.
But also it's hard not to find the entire endeavor contemptuous. Like, I'm genuinely curious if this merger with a noted malware manufacturer is part of what makes their "call home" to count installs tick. It's, uh, not a great look. And Riccitiello is also the guy who had to promise his employees they are never going to be making software that will lead to people dying (at least not directly!). And there's this chestnut: https://mobilegamer.biz/devs-not-baking-monetisation-into-the-creative-process-are-fucking-idiots-says-unitys-john-riccitiello/
So yeah, it's hard to see the dude flipping shares of his malware/military software company for quick cash as the quality of his product degrades and business choices harm indie projects in material ways.