Microsoft buys Activision/Blizzard for $70B
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Buh bye Bobby.
But I doubt this is gonna stop the long entrenched mandates by him I.E. Yearly Call of Duties and doing nothing to with their legacy backlog.
Who knows what's Blizzard's gonna be doing under this.
King games will be fine.
Microsoft had done diddly squat with Rareās platformers other then rare replay and the occasional character cameo. This doesnāt hold well for Crash and Spyro.
Then again the same can be said for Doom, Fallout, Elder Scrolls with the Bethesda purchase.
What do you mean? Elder Scrolls 6 is in development, we just got doom eternal plus two expansions for it in 2020, the only IP thatās kinda dormant is Fallout, but their still making content for Fallout 76.
Nintendo does it by building their consoles out of different parts from the other two, already having a supply of their current console before the shortage, and not selling their consoles at a loss.
No, Fallen Soldier is right. Activision owns the Crash and Spyro ips. Also, Crash was Naughty Dog, not Insomniac.
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Ha, good riddance you over paid piece of shit. Wish he was getting fired, although he probably has a big enough golden parachute to give everyone in the US UBI for at least 4 years.
So Spyro and Crash started off as Sony exclusives, and now they're Microsoft exclusives?
Oh, the humanity!
Oh, the humanity!
Anyone else find it surreal that Microsoft's just bought the CoD franchise, which, let's be honest, is a bigger FPS IP than Halo, which has been its frontrunner since day 1?
It makes me wonder too. Lots of games on B.net could be ported into the Microsoft ecosystem, but then you have stuff like WoW and HotS (difficult, if not impossible), to SC1/2 (practically impossible).
Oh um...Oh...uh neat? I'll be honest, I don't know if this is good or bad. I just know that somehow, somewhere, someone should be paying me about $1.5 million for this.
I guess it depends on your point of view. If you donāt care enough about games from Activision then it may not bother you much, unless you already prefer Microsoftās consoles. However, it only increases the monopolization of this industry and we are left with little choices. Massive corporations will start buying already big but small corporations etc.
The only game I care about from Blizzard is the Diablo 2 remake, and Im just waiting some moral cooling off period before my friends will agree to but it.
No new single player content will arrive for Fallout whilst '76 is still economically useful. The minute they were to make one, a huge chunk of their online players would disappear for a month or worse. That's why there's no Elder Scrolls 6, and I suspect a large part of why they've made Starfield: with two such big IPs locked out with an online version, they need something else to sell.
Iām still hoping for a new fallout game from obsidian. They can make a title while Bethesda is busy with star field and elder scrolls 6.