Microsoft Acquires Activison/Blizzard

[Vaporweeb]

View: https://twitter.com/Xbox/status/1483431175041347584?s=20


What the fuck?

I didn't even know this was in the cards for them to do.

This is seriously becoming concerning from an industry consolidation standpoint, and a concerning number of people don't seem to care.

As long as they can continue to rent more games (not own) through a subscription service (GamePass) they'll be complacent.

 

[Kolph]

Is it deja vu or hasn't it been known that they have been bought out for awhile?

 

[ThyOde17]

I remember reading something about this being a plan due to a variety different factors including Microsoft's own interest to make VR-related content. Not surprised in the slightest.

 

[Vaporweeb]

Is it deja vu or hasn't it been known that they have been bought out for awhile?

You might be thinking about the Bethesda acquisition which happened last year. As far as I know, this is breaking news.

 

[Vaporweeb]

I remember reading something about this being a plan due to a variety different factors including Microsoft's own interest to make VR-related content. Not surprised in the slightest.

It also helps that Act/Blizz's reputation has gone down the drain recently.

 

[Outer Heaven]

Call of Warcraft: Rise of the overwatch. Minecraft edition. Featuring Masterchief from Halo.

Developed by Micro-Activision-Blizzard Beijing.

 

[Deleted member 2362]

I didn't even know this was in the cards for them to do.

When there's smoke, there's fire:

 

[Kolph]

Microsoft owns Candy Crush, now what I'm suppose to play

 

[elia925-6]

Gaming conglomerate

 

[Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意]

Welcome to the techno-state. You will own nothing, you will live in pods, you will eat bugs, and you will be happy.

 

[Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意]

Microsoft owns Candy Crush, now what I'm suppose to play

Clash of Pans

 

[s0ren]

Coming online after working until right now, seeing this is INSANE. Wtf. With this, Microsoft is unquestionably the King of the West in gaming now.

 

[Outer Heaven]

Coming online after working until right now, seeing this is INSANE. Wtf. With this, Microsoft is unquestionably the King of the West in gaming now.

> Activision Blizzard
> West
We China now

 

[s0ren]

> Activision Blizzard
> West
We China now

lol I mean having access to specifically Call of Duty.

RE: On consolidation. I think that because of the structure of the game industry, where a large portion of players use consoles that are gatekept by M$ and Sony anyway, people don't really care that publishers + developers are being collected. In this very specific case, doesn't apply to Bethesda, I don't see Activision Blizzard getting any worse.

 

[Jade]

Microsoft-acquired studios tend to have a poor track record after being bought out. Seeing this though, I wonder, is it because the studios Microsoft tends to purchase were already on a downward slope regardless, or it is truly a direct results of changes after being acquired by Microsoft?

 

[赤い男]

I hate microsoft monopoly
I hate microsoft monopoly

 

[calico_jack]

shes finally coming home

 

[Jessica3cho雪血⊜青意]

Microsoft buys up an already collapsing studio that bought up an already collapsing studio that was formed from an already collapsing studio. Why does Microsoft do this? As a show of primal, unadulterated power over the try-hard beta orbiter companies that Microsoft deems worthy of giving the spotlight to for a few years before they inevitably collapse under the weight of raw power being in an alpha company position forces on you, before Microsoft consumes the torn-asunder flesh of the barely breathing company to gain what little power it has left. Born of the Gates, they'll return to the Bill.

 

[brentw]

They do it to own the IP, they can use the talent they want to keep, maybe shuffle them around, then gradually disolve and/or sell off parts of the buisiness they don't want.

Owning Call of Duty alone makes it worth while for them.

 

[Vaporweeb]