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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard
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They're making Bethesda games exclusive. Some of y'all really on some next level shit if you think they're not gonna lock this down. Minecraft and what, Ori are the only ones that MS hasn't locked completely down? Don't be obtuse.
Why on earth would you cut off the majority of your playerbase that you make more money (in the billions) selling MTX to than selling a few more Xboxes?? The actual profit from selling a console is pretty low. No way they cut off that gravytrain anytime soon.
Bethesda games are a completely different animal than CoD. For one, they are mostly single-player.
We only have Series consoles at home and I sub to Game Pass, and right now even I am a little concerned this was just too big of a purchase for Microsoft. Bethesda I sort of get, but this... I dunno man. It makes me a little uncomfortable
Please if you believe that's why ActiBlizz was the way it was I have a bridge to sell you.
All that means is that existing multiplatform games will continue to be supported across all platforms, which I'm sure comes as a surprise to exactly nobody. As with the Bethesda acquisition, don't expect MS to address the elephant in the room until after the buyout has been finalised.
Meanwhile on PC
MS paid 70 billion to put Crash 4 and Tony on Steam.
Thank you, Big Daddy Phil.
The games industry is nowhere near having someone approach monopoly level market control (normally defined about about 70% control of revenues), pretty sure Sonys' revenue alone would outstrip this consolidation.
Am I the only one who thinks EA would be a far better buy? It's like half the price and in terms of franchises and IPs and all that.. Codies and sports games and racing and characters and smaller studios.. ultimate team prints money as well, EA also has mobile studios..
Not sure, but I feel EA would be more inline with MS than Acti.
Not sure, but I feel EA would be more inline with MS than Acti.
these companies did it due to increasing budgets and the need to have ever higher/growing profits. especially when the risk of hd development hit hard, this brought about more consolidation. since then, budgets and need for higher sales to make back those budgets have only gone up. instead of bringing the temperature down and developing with smaller budgets and working within means, publishers sought the next cultural blockbuster with every release and this is the future of that timeline. i mean, after third-parties merge, buy each other out, or die, what is there left to do?
What in the blue hell
well....maybe this whole mess will somehow lead to Singularity remaster or some shit
well....maybe this whole mess will somehow lead to Singularity remaster or some shit
Ehhhh, all they need is to release some actual quality content, which they haven't done in 2 expansions. Shadowlands which is absolute trash has still sold almost 4 million copies, WoW is still close enough to FF 14 to regain their position if they would get their heads out of their asses. This might be the only good thing that comes from this acquisition in my opinion.
GamePass becomes an OEM product for every gaming medium just like MS Office is for PC manufactures
That's a huge acquisition, potentially too big and subject to more stringent legal approval. Didn't expect it, but I can see it working out in the years to come. I hope they take a more hands-on involvement to right the company and fit with the rest of the Xbox ethos. I wouldn't be surprised if Rod Ferguson takes on a higher role now that he's back with MSFT
Nah, their prestige content will continue to take longer and longer to release and it's already too homogenised.
As far as I'm concerned Xbox is the industry leader now and this is before they buy more like Sega.
This is absolutely terrible for the industry if all these games become Xbox Exclusive.
And I say that as the Switch and Xbox are my primary systems.
And I say that as the Switch and Xbox are my primary systems.
As the consolidation of the industry continues. This is the fear people seem to have had with other big tech companies...
I've heard this countless times and it's yet to be proven.
COD is NOT going exclusive. This is different from the Bethesda deal. It's a monstrous yearly release, not a once every 5 years thing like with Starfield. COD is synonymous with video games — it's too big of a game to make exclusive, even console exclusive. I'm an Xbot so I'm not being biased saying that.
Nah, him and the others implicated in this shit have just got much much richer.
I'm sure some of it goes to Kotick and co.'s golden parachute or what have you, but a 50% premium to buy the company seems...kinda absurd, given the stock's performance recently, the accusations, and everything looking like it wasn't going to get better anytime soon.
Honestly, this kinda reminds me of the transition from having MS excel/word/powerpoint shift from being a product/license you bought into a 'subscription' service.....which left a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't really know what to think about this..I mean I'm an Xbox owner and in line for a PS5 when it's available. So I won't be missing out on anything but I still don't really like this direction!
This gen will really put the PlayStation trademark to the test! Because MS are on a roll and no publisher is safe, they just bought a company worth half the market cap of the entirety of Sony, no publisher is of limits for them :o
This gen will really put the PlayStation trademark to the test! Because MS are on a roll and no publisher is safe, they just bought a company worth half the market cap of the entirety of Sony, no publisher is of limits for them :o
This is actually a good point and a disappointing one. Microsoft needs to do better and support more regions. Like, there are even EU countries that don't have Game Pass support, what the fuck is up with that.
I find it interesting how many people are fine with monopoly :P
I guess it's quite good for some gamers, but at the other hand you are forcing Bethesda / Activision console game fans to buy your product to play your favourite series you always had on PlayStation. By "supporting those communities" Microsoft probably means things like Warzone staying on PlayStation. I don't believe that every new CoD will also launch on PS.
I guess it's quite good for some gamers, but at the other hand you are forcing Bethesda / Activision console game fans to buy your product to play your favourite series you always had on PlayStation. By "supporting those communities" Microsoft probably means things like Warzone staying on PlayStation. I don't believe that every new CoD will also launch on PS.
Not a big loss for me but this is fucking crazy. I still stand by my belief MS is all about taking away from Sony and Nintendo then actually building a quality first party team.
This is the outcome I'm hoping for now. Though the Bethesda launcher is still alive, and I don't know why.
There are thousands of game studios, not even in the console market they are even close to be a monopoly.
idk why people insist on this
Agreed. COD is all about the large player base. Cutting off most of the planet from the game would be a bad, money losing move.
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