Tim Turi of gameinformer.com, discusses some interesting quotes from an interview. It makes light of the situation that Kotick could've been the one to reap the benefits, rather than the Activision+Vivendi relationship that now exists.

"I was talking to [Blizzard founder] Mike Morhaime the other day and I said, 'You know, I could have bought you for seven million and instead it was seven billion.' [Laughs]
He said, 'Yeah, could you imagine if I had just held out for the seven billion instead of the seven million?'”

Dark Arcanine via gameinformer.com »