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Microsoft is buying Activision-Blizzard
BREAKING: The WSJ reports that Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard, the troubled publisher behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft, which has been facing crisis over the last year following numerous reports of sexual misconduct and discrimination. A seismic gaming deal
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier) January 18, 2022
For $70 billion. Nuts.
Bobby is a goner
It’s official for anyone wondering: https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/01/18/welcoming-activision-blizzard-to-microsoft-gaming/
Wtf… This is insane.
And not in a good way.
Once you have to much power… It could become a Monopoly, and that’s never a good thing.
Edit: I’ve seen this comment by other user and I think it’s pretty much this:
>won’t be long until it’s just three megacorps across the entire medium, which sucks for everyone except a handful of CEOs
Think about this. If a company has total domain they can rise prices, (look at Disney… They announced the service for 6€ and once they had enough customers they raised the price to 9€)
Just an example
Hooray billion dollar corporations buying other billion dollar corporations. That’s always good for everyone right?
Microsoft really does have fuck you money, holy shit
Wow. Is Call of Duty about to be an Xbox exclusive?!
In no world is buying up big 3rd party publishers with all its IP’s good for this industry.
Regardless of if you are a fan of Sony or Microsoft, this is incredibly concerning for a lot of reasons. We are approaching deeper and deeper into a video game industry monopoly and that only hurts the consumer.
Holy shit
Call of Duty just became a pc and Xbox exclusive
Fucking WHAT?
Absolutely crazy. The two biggest FPS titles of the last 20 years are now under one roof.
No more COD money for PlayStation
At some point it would just become cheaper to buy Sony to prevent games from coming to PlayStation.
Well sony just got a fire lit under their ass to get a new resistance, killzone, socom in development asap.
Jesus, that’s a big fish. And especially a very big usually multiplatform fish with a bunch of popular IP. I wonder if they’ll go console exclusive…
I just woke up and this doesn’t feel real.. this is CRAZY
Thank god I stopped giving a shit about cod since MW2
The only way Sony can clap back is to buy T2 and make GTA exclusive… by the way don’t want this or anything to happen, these exclusives don’t help any consumers in any way
This is bad for consumers in general but this acquisition in particular doesn’t matter to me. Blizzard games I’ve always played on PC and CoD I haven’t touched since 5 years ago but the last CoD I enjoyed was actually BO2.
What the fuck, I had to check it wasn’t April fools Day.
My biggest questions are:
Will Microsoft implement new staff to manage Activision and its business decisions better, or will they simply be the parent company and allow autonomy?
Gamepass, I can’t imagine cod games going to gamepass on day 1, considering how much money they make, but I wonder if they will offer discounts on them for GPU members.
3) will they continue to publish on PlayStation, that’s a significant portion of their sales, like millions of copies are sold yearly on PlayStation.
Microsoft just casually spent half of Sony’s market cap and nearly all of Sony’s typical sales figures.
What… the…. Fuck….
I am shook. I understood why Bethesda sold to Microsoft (their cash flow problems were well known), but Activision Blizzard? I would never have guessed that in a million years.
I guess Microsoft is very confident that they can root out the terrible culture at Activision through this merger. But man, if I was a current XBox employee, I’d be nervous as hell. When a merger happens, the two company cultures typically get closer together as people from each company move into new positions. I guess XBox is banking on their teams culture to completely overpower the shithole that his ActBliz.
Sony must also be really worried. To have all the COD bros switch platforms is going to be catastrophic. Microsoft will have a vice grip on gaming if COD was to be made XBox exclusive.
I give it 5 years before PlayStation releases a first party military shooter that competes with COD.
This is potentially really shitty for the many, many COD players out there. Me? I only really care about Crash Bandicoot.
I guess a lot of xbox players are happy with this. Personally I think this is terrible for gaming. Microsoft is trying to create a monopoly here which in the end will always hurt the consumer.
Holy crap. This is monumental. I fucking hate Activision and don’t play their games but nonetheless this completely shifted the power dynamic
This is just insane and feels like the start of video-game monoply at this point lol
At this rate they might as well buy Sony.
That’s an alarming development. Monopoly issues aside, why go near that shit show of a company right now? Sexual abuse? Mass layoffs? Wage stagnation? Tax avoidance? Not the sort of sweet smelling flower I’d want associated with my company.
Holy fucking shit man. This is an absolute HUGE power move. Fucking Overwatch, Diablo, Call of Duty, Starcraft, World of Warcraft could ALL end up being exclusives. And then Microsoft last year buying Bethesda… Microsoft is like the Disney of videogames now… buying up ALL the major franchises.
I am in shock honestly… I mean Microsoft has gone from “Xbox has no games” to Xbox now owns virtually the largest IPs in gaming and they could and probably will ALL end up being either Xbox exclusive or timed-exclusive.
i dont like where this trend of big companies buying up all the developers is going…
edit: be it MS or Sony. imo both should be mainly platform providers with a handfull of dev studios for timed exclusive titles. but thats just wishful thinking.
Regardless of which console you are a fan of, this is terrible for the industry.
The COD VS Halo fight is over, it’s now owned by the same company lmao
Shit man. More and more I’m realizing I’m gonna have to buy an Xbox now along with my PS5 and switch Jesus being a gamer is expensive.
You don’t spend $69 billion to not make your games exclusive to your ecosystem. Wake up, people. We’ve been through this already with Bethesda.
This seems like the start of some bad shit for gaming. Probably the craziest headline I’ve seen in gaming news in my whole life.
Not a fan of Xbox making these giant acquisition deals and causing an arms race with it. Corpo monopolies is horrible for the industry.
Oh no they bought a company that I haven’t bought a game from in years…live service games and microtransactions have ruined all those IPs.
Microsoft is going a bit overboard. I may end up needing to buy an Xbox at this rate.