Microsoft buys Activision
(www.bloomberg.com)
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All those rumours and accusations make a different story when we realize MSoft was looking to buy. The big M may have rung Activision through the sewers of the public eye to get a better deal.
Microsoft now owns formerly Playstation mascots.
I'm glad you said it because my conspiracy brain immediately went there
Seems obvious
It reminds me of Public Opinion about star wars right before Disney bought Lucasarts.
i dont think oub opinion of SW was influnced by disney unless you remember some articles that were two or thrice removed from them?
Remember all of the articles saying the prequels sucked and the IP should be given to someone else? Remember how right before the first sequel we were told it was dedicated to the true Star Wars themes?
Exactly the first thing that came to my mind when I heard this news!
They still overpaid, but that is a good theory. I heard the value of the company was around 50b and now they sold it for almost 69b, that is a big difference.
Yeah but think of all the consoles they just sold from people who played cod exclusively and only played it on PlayStation
I've read he is being pushed out after the deal is finished. It could be hogwash though.
I remember the same thing happening with Mojang, so there is a precedent here.
Blizzard is in the gutter, COD I assume must be doing really well. What else do they have to be worth that much?
Warzone microtransactions are probably where the money is
I did quit Warzone right away when they ditched Verdansk for the Vanguard bullshit. Didn't even try out the new map, I don't care.
CoD has been moving into the gutter as well after the woke remake of Modern Warfare. It all culminated in a pretty massive drop-off in sales for the latest installment:
Wtf is this official image lol
WWII: dab edition. that studio should be shut down for such a shocking affront to the great war.
Ahahhhaha good.
double lol. bf2042 is ded, and halo is super unpopular with the nerds atm, the go woke part is kicking in here.
It really is heartwarming news.
"Heil Hitla nigga, we wuz stormin groupas y'all!" -- black woman with cyborg arm fighing for the Reich
A braindead playerbase that takes even more abuse than a battered housewife because the housewife isn't at least paying a monthly sub for the beatings from over the last few decades?
COD Infinite will be fun..
They did it all to get Candy Crush.
The rest will be released on other consoles as normal.
I mean, can activision get any worse?
Yes. It can become Rare.
The question is, can it get better?
Not in the current market. They will just keep making their live service games. I don't see that market dying off anytime soon, and that's where the big money is it seems.
Answer: it could be Halo Infinitely worse
Blizz went woke. Even starting hiding the titties. They aren’t worth anything now.
blizz was woke for d3, coincidentally they were also rapists.
and u/vebent activison is why quality went down, they had their YEAR ON YEAR FRANCHISES faggots overseeing blizzard, that was the start of the end; on top of the creeping woke that seemed to start sometime 2011-2012ish or so for blizz.
Occupy Wallstreet scared them shitless, so they had to remove escapism from everything and replace it with the political struggle.
It seems all the good games these days are either by indie developers or Japanese developers anyways.
The kids section at book stores and you stores have basically replaced TV shows and a few movies with specific Videogames. Five Nights at Freddy's, Roblox, and Bendy as far as the eye can see.
Something more is going on with these specific games and their popularity.
The strongest building materials ever made are the bricks currently being shit by the head of Sony's gaming division.
And Nintendo is wondering if they get games like Microsoft did with Minecraft. Nothing to Sony, releases to Xbox, PC, and Nintendo with the XBox online network set up.
Disney then buys Sony, and we watch the fireworks from there.
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And toss everything to the side.