Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard for $68.7B, Phil Spencer to be CEO

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[–]chadwickofwv 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Wow, even more reason to never play a game from Blizzard. Fuck Micro$oft.

[–]NeedMoreCoffee 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't know. I hate microsoft but for gaming they are actually doing well. This might actually save wow after they fire kotick in 6 months

[–]Drewski 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I deleted my Blizzard account after they punished Blitzchung for his support of the Hong Kong protests. It's a shame, they made a bunch of great games back in the day like Diablo, Starcraft and Warcraft but with the stuff they've put out lately I don't miss them at all.

[–]Tiwaking 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Az from Heel vs Babyface has a good opinion video about this: Microsoft PURCHASE Activision Blizzard for $70 BILLION!! (12 minutes) - sex scandals, dead games, call of duty licenses, Metaverse. It has it all!

[–]package 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Inb4 every female Overwatch character gets the Halo 5 cortana treatment

[–]filbs111 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Recent shenanigans might have dropped the price. Thankfully people never do anything underhanded for money.

[–]Dragonerne 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What would've happend if you had bought activision blizzard stocks 2 months ago?

[–]MarkJefferson 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As already expressed here, this may actually be good for Blizzard games(It can't get any worse). As a game publisher, Microsoft is relatively hands-off or at least they don't massacre franchises(like EA); Like they are with the Age of Empires series, which is true to it's roots along with their namesake Flight Simulator games. But yeah, they own a fuckton of IPs now. So, if you've already completely soured on the triple A games then there's always indies, which I personally spend more time playing nowadays anyway.