Microsoft Microsoft/Activision Blizzard Acquisition - Information Thread, update: The Deal Has Closed

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Check out the new post-ABK acquisition org chart:

 

[DPCyric]

On 10/13/2023 at 11:41 PM, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Activision shut them down after they made Blur so unfortunately my statement was just a fantasy.

 

I want a Blur expansion for Forza Horizion 

[Keyser_Soze]

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

That studio already seems ruined beyond repair. Best to just liquidated the leadership of Blizzard entirely and start over with passionate, idealistic leaders if you want any hope of Blizzard going back to its glory days before the dark times. Before Activision.  

[crispy4000]

They could start by breaking Vicaious Visions off again.

[SuperSpreader]

29 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

Blizzard going back to its glory days before the dark times. Before Activision.  

 

When the sexual abuse began?

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

8 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Oh...oh no...

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

4 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

 

When the sexual abuse began?

Are we assuming that Blizzard was only putting out quality games because of the sexual abuse? And that to get back to that level of quality again would need the return to abuse too? 

[Spork3245]

Lol, MSFT was also "hands off" with Redfall.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Just now, Spork3245 said:

Lol, MSFT was also "hands off" with Redfall.

 

That's pretty much what I was thinking of when I made my post

[Keyser_Soze]

I think the general idea is Microsoft doesn't want to tell studios what to do, and have them make what they want. I think for the most part they don't expect them to bring out giant turds. For every Redfall there is a Hi-Fi so take it as you will.

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

Though there is still a way MSFT can be “hands off” while massively influencing development or design. They just do it with revenue expectations. Nobody from MSFT told them to put a cash shop in game, but management didn’t think they could meet the revenue numbers on units sold alone, so cash shop. 

[Massdriver]

Where is Warcraft 4?

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

2 minutes ago, Massdriver said:

Where is Warcraft 4?

 

OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLO

[Keyser_Soze]

46 minutes ago, Massdriver said:

Where is Warcraft 4?

 

It came out earlier this month

 

Warcraft Rumble

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[Massdriver]

54 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

It came out earlier this month

 

Warcraft Rumble

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Experience the true meaning of joyful chaos in Warcraft Rumble, a mobile action strategy game developed by Blizzard Entertainment.

[Remarkableriots]

$15 horse for WoW made more money than StarCraft 2: WoL, and other stories told by former Blizzard dev Jason Hall | Game World Observer

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Jason Hall, currently an indie developer and former Blizzard employee, has been sharing some really interesting stories from his long career in the industry for a while now. Some of...

 

[Remarkableriots]

FTC appeals to block already-completed Microsoft-Activision deal

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The Federal Trade Commission has made its appeal to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard – despite the …

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The FTC argued that district judge Jacqueline Scott Corley, who denied the government body's appeal for a preliminary injunction in July, held the FTC to too high a standard.

Imad Abyad, an attorney representing the FTC, argued that the government body only had to show the potential for Microsoft to withhold games from other platforms rather than to make a case that the deal was anticompetitive.

Abyad said Microsoft had done this in the past after acquiring Zenimax in 2020, making some of its titles exclusive to Microsoft.

 

[Spork3245]

Sounds like a huge waste of time and money tbh

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

The FTC:

 

I appreciate the sentiment, but it just seems so futile. They have no backing from existing law or legislators and in the last 50 years there’s been more precedent going the way it’s already gone. 

[Ghost_MH]

28 minutes ago, Remarkableriots said:

FTC appeals to block already-completed Microsoft-Activision deal

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The Federal Trade Commission has made its appeal to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard – despite the …

 

 

Again, the FTC focusing on this because it's a little bit bad for competition while ignoring Adobe's acquisition of Figma that is enormously bad for competition is laughable.

 

I should note that the EU and UK ARE doing a good job trying to stop this acquisition.