Finally. The deal was greenlit by authorities. Blizzard is a Microsoft company, this is a matter of days.
Good bye Bobby! See you at the next dumpsterfire!
Now we might see some good changes. Some ground-up reworks. Like proper item scaling into endgame or making open world (which is like 80% of content) viable. We might get new stashtabs without downloading malware.
Good bye freaks and goblins, welcome the biggest software company on the planet!
PS: Can we get the crit change reconsidered?
Oh boy. Active directory for stash space.
Your wish is granted, Microsoft reworks Diablo IV:
Bing now searches your stash (*it also loads super slow now) and Cortana tells you when world bosses spawn, your hardcore characters occasionally now die when your game updates in the middle of a play session, and you can buy hats on the Microsoft store.
Enjoy 
Microsoft has a hundred times better reputation even in the gaming market than activision lol. What are you on about
Maybe people will also stop trying to be cool and edgy calling Blizzard “Activision” since Activision never owned Blizzard and now MS OWNS Blizzard and Activision.
But like you, I honestly welcome MS as the new owners too. They own Zenimax who took over ESO awhile back and now MS owns them (and ESO) and ESO seems to still be doing pretty good. Time will tell, but in the end, if Blizzard makes a game I don’t like or the Blizzard games I play lose my interest then life goes on and I move on (unlike a lot of people on these forums who hate Blizzard and D4 but can’t move on). In the end, it is just video games and there are tons of others out there.
Activision did in fact own blizzard.
Well Blizzard was disappointing for years. Something will change at least. If for better or worse time will tell. I still shouldn’t expect something like Warcraft 4 with proper story telling and gameplay not boring after few days. Probably just more mobile crap.
Indeed, the deal has been approved.
I warn you though, MS is pretty hands off of the companies and Studios under them. I have a fellow former MVP friend who works for a diff company who was bought by MS. Other than the top level stock and corporate things, the creative side and day to day activity was not impacted.
ATVI as the main company is going to be impacted and hopefully Bobby is gone. King games, Activision Publishing, and Blizzard Entertainment as separate units, may not see much at all from our point of view. That is good or bad depending on how you look at it.
I just hope the rapid early release of products and content is reigned in. Release things when done, not when it hits some publicity or stockholder metric mark they want.
I am against these consolidations in general, but this is an exception.
Blizzard could benefit from new owners. They were on a terrible trajectory.
Does Micro soft have a reputation for buying studios and " fixing " their games ?
sounds expensive to me.
Does MS want/care about good games or to make alot of money off of any games, good or bad ?
" * Implement consequences for the failure in leadership at Blizzard during the various employee mistreatment scandals in recent years "
would they really look to punish anyone for making the fastest selling video game of all time ?
Theyve made approx a Billion dollars { 666 in the 1st 5 days }, do you really punish people 4 that ?
That’s the good news.
No more Bobby Kotick saying “we want to suck the fun out of game developement”.
Blizzard is free to update the game now.
Question, will the Blizzard logo stay or not? 
Yeah sure, then they made negative 100 million sales the other 85 days 
Blizzard reported 520 million in product sale revenues from april to june 30
investor. activision. com/financial-information/quarterly-results
No way this game sold anywhere near 10 million copies lol.
It’ll be interesting to see if anything changes. Imo though Blizzard will still be greedy and try to nickel and dime us anyway they can as I’m pretty sure that was their choice and not Activision. In fact, I’m pretty sure most changes people think were Activision or whoever were made by Blizzard.
…and double paid $100 for when this is on Gamepass…
The math suggests it did. Across the multiple platforms it’s available on? 10 million minimum.
I just linked the quarterly report. The math certainly proves there wasn’t 10 million copies sold.
It certainly proves you don’t know how to interpret or read the link you posted 
Definaterly stay !
Thats like Nike or coca-cola
millions will buy from those logos alone despite what its attached to
Im actually shocked Blizzard or who ever owns the logo now doesnt plaster it on everything from baby bottles to car covers and everything in between
" strike while the iron is hot "
I am an economist.
Blizzard published in the quarterly report the following:
From april 1st to june 30th, product sales amounted to 520 million dollars.
This includes all product sales, not just D4. Every game purchased is counted here.
So when people say “Diablo IV did $666 million in revenue in just five days” that seems to be 60-90% microtransaction, and definitely not just sales. That is impossible.
Or, in my opinion, it is just PR before a merger. It is impossible that blizzard made 666 million selling D4 at the beginning of june because for 3 entire months they only made 520 million in sales.
These are facts.