Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard
Woah. I guess that is one way to clean house of the absolutely shit and toxic management.
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Call of Duty being an MS exclusive would kill Playstation.
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I think I need to buy an Xbox for the Diablo games...
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The only upside of this news I can think of is that maybe Activision can go back to putting out games other than Call of Duty.
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This is a huge blow to Sony. I'm not sure what they can do now to "even" the field. Those are huge franchises that Microsoft will be acquiring. For selfish reason, this also sucks for me since I have only been a Playstation player and now I may have to buy another console.
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Originally Posted by LorenzoL
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This is a huge blow to Sony. I'm not sure what they can do now to "even" the field. Those are huge franchises that Microsoft will be acquiring.
At least I hope they do, otherwise it kind of seems borderline monopolistic with all the big acquisitions lately. |
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Originally Posted by Adam Tyner
(Post 14042583)
The only upside of this news I can think of is that maybe Activision can go back to putting out games other than Call of Duty.
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Definitely monopoly vibes going at this point, but our government believes bigger is better these days.
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Generally, I don't like this. But if they boot Kotick and have a stronger push for smaller games, then it could be good.
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If this is true then this is not a good step… |
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Lol
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Strangely, one of the first things to jump out at me was that Candy Crush was important enough to list on the banner graphic with the announcement. I played that for a while back around 10 years ago and figured it was probably pretty dead by now. So I googled it and saw that it currently makes over $1 billion/year. To me, that's more shocking than the acquisition.
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Spoiler:
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Originally Posted by Michael Corvin
(Post 14042588)
Definitely monopoly vibes going at this point, but our government believes bigger is better these days.
I have all 3 next gen consoles, but play my PS5 and Switch the most. This stinks as I prefer the Dualsense controller over the Xbox one, but oh well. Sony really is lagging behind at this point with what MS is doing. They need to launch their "GamePass" ASAP |
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Tons of people criticized the Disney/Fox deal for years (between announcement, closing, and since) and it had to get antitrust approval.
Somewhat surprisingly, this deal cost $16 billion more than the Disney/Fox deal. |
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Originally Posted by LorenzoL
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His deal expires March 2023. I am absolutely willing to bet he is gone immediately once the deal closes. |
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Originally Posted by Deftones
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Do you think they will come right out and say he is gone? I don't think they would. My guess is once MS has the keys, they clean house.
His deal expires March 2023. I am absolutely willing to bet he is gone immediately once the deal closes. Yes, he's going to get a massive payout, and he'll never have to work another day in his life. But that was bound to happen anyway, whether it was him resigning, getting canned, or whatever, at any point in his future. But if/when he's out, he's out for good. |
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Originally Posted by RichC2
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I think a big franchise like CoD would probably still hit Playstation, but Microsoft would dangle the "Play it on Game Pass" carrot.
I'm sure there'll be other games that they'll make exclusive though. I think this is more to do with making Game Pass the definitive Netflix of videogames. |
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This still has MS as the 3rd biggest gaming entity behind Tencent and Sony.
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But not dumping Kotick and of course the whole monopoly thing are all Very Bad Things™. |
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Did the government even weigh on on antitrust? I never heard one word about this merger until it's official? The Fox-Disney thing was in limbo for over a year before it went official.
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Originally Posted by Decker
(Post 14042688)
Did the government even weigh on on antitrust? I never heard one word about this merger until it's official? The Fox-Disney thing was in limbo for over a year before it went official.
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Originally Posted by Decker
(Post 14042688)
Did the government even weigh on on antitrust? I never heard one word about this merger until it's official? The Fox-Disney thing was in limbo for over a year before it went official.
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I'm not really knowledgeable in US Antitrust matters but if the government did not step in for the Disney/Fox merger, what are the chances this get denied?
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