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Microsoft Set To Acquire Activision Blizzard For $68.7 Billion | MMORPG.com

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  • TokkenTokken Member EpicPosts: 3,644
    edited January 2022
    I concur! I think this deal will improve some of these games / franchises.
    IceAge

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  • laseritlaserit Member LegendaryPosts: 7,591
    You know....

    I've been thinking, maybe these guys know something we don't.

    Maybe there is a reason Kotick and company want to unload.

    Regulations?

    "Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee

  • giantessfangiantessfan Member UncommonPosts: 185
    So by next June Microsoft will own ESO and WoW and they are developing 2 to 3 mmos.
    maskedweasel
  • HerithiusHerithius Member UncommonPosts: 273
    I personally don't think Blizzard has done a good job with the IP's for a very long time. We haven't seen a new Warcraft title since 2004 with WoW. We've had 2 Starcraft's in the last 24+ years. The last Diablo launched a decade ago.

    So many great titles/spinoffs can be made with nothing happening.

    I see the potential here much like what Disney has done with the Marvel and the Star Wars IP. A lot of people were complaining monopoly with that but Disney has provided amazing content.

    Blizzard has been dropping the ball with their franchises. Meanwhile Microsoft wants them so badly they're ready to spend 67bn. I'm excited about the possibilities for all the Blizzard titles.
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  • giantessfangiantessfan Member UncommonPosts: 185
    Deathkon1 said:
    Herithius said:
    I personally don't think Blizzard has done a good job with the IP's for a very long time. We haven't seen a new Warcraft title since 2004 with WoW. We've had 2 Starcraft's in the last 24+ years. The last Diablo launched a decade ago.

    So many great titles/spinoffs can be made with nothing happening.

    I see the potential here much like what Disney has done with the Marvel and the Star Wars IP. A lot of people were complaining monopoly with that but Disney has provided amazing content.

    Blizzard has been dropping the ball with their franchises. Meanwhile Microsoft wants them so badly they're ready to spend 67bn. I'm excited about the possibilities for all the Blizzard titles.
    microsoft bought bethesda do you see anything great being made from bethesda as of late from them they bought the company and nothing new has come from it 
    Deathkon1 said:
    Herithius said:
    I personally don't think Blizzard has done a good job with the IP's for a very long time. We haven't seen a new Warcraft title since 2004 with WoW. We've had 2 Starcraft's in the last 24+ years. The last Diablo launched a decade ago.

    So many great titles/spinoffs can be made with nothing happening.

    I see the potential here much like what Disney has done with the Marvel and the Star Wars IP. A lot of people were complaining monopoly with that but Disney has provided amazing content.

    Blizzard has been dropping the ball with their franchises. Meanwhile Microsoft wants them so badly they're ready to spend 67bn. I'm excited about the possibilities for all the Blizzard titles.
    microsoft bought bethesda do you see anything great being made from bethesda as of late from them they bought the company and nothing new has come from it 
    As it should be. Microsoft claims they are buying these companies and letting them operate as normal so why would things change
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  • DrukqsDrukqs Member UncommonPosts: 31
    Asherons Call reboot! Lets do this Microsoft!
    HJ-Navarre
  • bcbullybcbully Member EpicPosts: 11,843
    Deathkon1 said:
    Herithius said:
    I personally don't think Blizzard has done a good job with the IP's for a very long time. We haven't seen a new Warcraft title since 2004 with WoW. We've had 2 Starcraft's in the last 24+ years. The last Diablo launched a decade ago.

    So many great titles/spinoffs can be made with nothing happening.

    I see the potential here much like what Disney has done with the Marvel and the Star Wars IP. A lot of people were complaining monopoly with that but Disney has provided amazing content.

    Blizzard has been dropping the ball with their franchises. Meanwhile Microsoft wants them so badly they're ready to spend 67bn. I'm excited about the possibilities for all the Blizzard titles.
    microsoft bought bethesda do you see anything great being made from bethesda as of late from them they bought the company and nothing new has come from it 
    Deathkon1 said:
    Herithius said:
    I personally don't think Blizzard has done a good job with the IP's for a very long time. We haven't seen a new Warcraft title since 2004 with WoW. We've had 2 Starcraft's in the last 24+ years. The last Diablo launched a decade ago.

    So many great titles/spinoffs can be made with nothing happening.

    I see the potential here much like what Disney has done with the Marvel and the Star Wars IP. A lot of people were complaining monopoly with that but Disney has provided amazing content.

    Blizzard has been dropping the ball with their franchises. Meanwhile Microsoft wants them so badly they're ready to spend 67bn. I'm excited about the possibilities for all the Blizzard titles.
    microsoft bought bethesda do you see anything great being made from bethesda as of late from them they bought the company and nothing new has come from it 
    As it should be. Microsoft claims they are buying these companies and letting them operate as normal so why would things change
    Didn't activison say the same thing when they bought blizzard? What came next? Cataclysm.... 
  • JeroKaneJeroKane Member EpicPosts: 7,096
    News flash!  Bobby K. is out after the transaction completes! This has now been confirmed!

    Bye bye Bobby and good riddance.
    [Deleted User]cheyane
  • AdamantineAdamantine Member RarePosts: 5,093
    Not that I personally care at all what happends with Blizzard. I dont like Warcraft, dont like WoW, dont like Diablo.

    But whats happening is primarily really that M$ is becoming an even bigger monopoly than before.

    And if you think M$ does "magically" everything right - might I for example kindly remind you how they for example handled Vanguard: Saga of Heroes ? The early and buggy release of Vanguard was M$s doing.

    If M$ does good products, well, the future will tell.

  • JeroKaneJeroKane Member EpicPosts: 7,096
    Not that I personally care at all what happends with Blizzard. I dont like Warcraft, dont like WoW, dont like Diablo.

    But whats happening is primarily really that M$ is becoming an even bigger monopoly than before.

    And if you think M$ does "magically" everything right - might I for example kindly remind you how they for example handled Vanguard: Saga of Heroes ? The early and buggy release of Vanguard was M$s doing.

    If M$ does good products, well, the future will tell.

    The only people crying right now are Sony Playstation fans.

    No one else cares.

    Microsoft might be a behemot in the PC and Cloud bussiness market, but when it comes to the Games market they are not.

    There are far bigger players on the market still. Especially in Asia.

    Not to mention some real Media behemots in US like Warner and Disney.

    On this website, serving the PC master race, people should be happy.
  • OmegaXtcOmegaXtc Member UncommonPosts: 36
    I hear Microsoft is making a crossover where Master Chief lands on Azeroth and it's being invaded by Vivec from Morrowind.
    ScotbcbullyJeroKaneTwistedSister77Arglebargle
  • laseritlaserit Member LegendaryPosts: 7,591
    It's making huge news that's a for sure

    "Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee

  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,164
    JeroKane said:
    News flash!  Bobby K. is out after the transaction completes! This has now been confirmed!

    Bye bye Bobby and good riddance.
    Delicious.

  • laseritlaserit Member LegendaryPosts: 7,591
    IceAge said:
    First, Activision was like whew, they bought our dumpster fire.

    Second, this acquisition needs to be blocked. Activision is the #1 pc game IP in the U.S. With Bethesda and activision, microsoft will own most major IPs.

    Wait what? 

    https://www.alltopeverything.com/top-10-biggest-video-game-companies/

    Now combined, it will be $20 billion. They will still be second place in the world behind Sony. So there is no "anti-trust" to begin with. 



    Probably, that is why I said "#1 pc game IP in the U.S.".  Apples and oranges matter.  Sony is not pc or U.S.
    All the more reason why the U.S. government might let it slide.

    "Be water my friend" - Bruce Lee

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  • laseritlaserit Member LegendaryPosts: 7,591
    People can’t get either console.

    Why cut your arms and legs off?
    Kyleran[Deleted User]

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  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,028
    edited January 2022
    laserit said:
    People can’t get either console.

    Why cut your arms and legs off?
    We got both, but it took some extreme circumstances.

    I got my PS5 through Playstation Direct (and had to fight through error messages and server lag for it). We got our Series X by showing up at a newly reopened Gamestop.
    laseritKyleran
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