Microsoft didn’t acquire Blizzard solely for their games; they made the purchase based on the large number of players connected to Battle.net. Blizzard’s revenue is relatively small compared to the Swedish company King. This acquisition was not focused on specific games or titles but rather driven by motives such as mobile gaming, the metaverse, and circumventing Apple’s App Store. Fact!
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Sea of Thieves is a new IP that was developed by Rare (the makers of Banjo Kazooie and is a Microsoft-owned studio). I remember launch was a pretty empty game, but I’ve heard it’s getting better.
Flight Simulator is probably Microsoft’s longest running franchise. The new flight sim isn’t too bad, but it’s hard to play unless you have at least a controller.
In the racing space, you have the Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon series.
Thinking on all of this reminded me of how much I miss hearing the Xbox achievement unlock sound. Selling the console was a bit of a mistake on my part. I bought a PS4 and really didn’t like it.
Yes~, because market cap always reflects the reality of what goes on inside the corporation, right~? 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2023/05/30/fidelity-values-twitter-at-roughly-15-billion-a-third-of-the-sticker-price-paid-by-musk/
I’m sure they know much less than you do about what they’re talking about. Including Musk himself.
Hard numbers are better than editorial journalism we get from the media trying to create a crash in a company they’re clearly angry at…
Yeah, I’m sure they made up those quotes and the official valuation by FIS. Maybe you should have a look at what FIS does, hmm~?
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Kind of like how the WHO and FDA tells the truth and is not bought off with money from pharmaceutical companies and competitors… Ok…
Don’t forget your tinfoil hat on the way out, ok? It’s important to avoid those mind-controlling aliens.
I’m sure Musk was just lying too, obviously.
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You have no idea what goes into actual value, and theoretical value. What advertisers are willing to pay to advertise… etc. I don’t think Musk cares about those advertisers he’s not going to bend to their demands. I don’t think he cares if the advertising value crashed because he didn’t buy the company for that reason.
You’re the one quoting theoretical value, meanwhile a stakeholder in Twitter marked it down when financial going-ons worldwide is their business and came out with their own valuation of Twitter, which also matches what the Musk man himself has said about its value from his PoV.
Yeah, I’m sure you’re the smarter cookie compared to them. Of course.
Diablo IV will be discontinued for a future HALO arpg.
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Microsoft doesn’t seem as obsessed with wokeness either. Bing is actually a better search engine than Google at this point for anything remotely controversial. It gives more objective and varied results.
Won’t see any changes for years.
Most likely Blizzard will be sold off or licensed out to other companies, especially WoW, which most likely will end up at Daybreak Games, who currently own Everquest.
The previous Executive Producer of Daybreak games (for decades) is currently the executive producer at WoW.
Holly Longdale will probably push hard for that and be successful as well.
WoW will go maintenance mode just like EQ.
Blizzard games havent had an actual win for a long time.
Microsoft bought call of duty for the game pass.
That’s it.
The only hope for actual Blizzard games to prosper depends really on the fashion that MS decides to offload it’s junky products (Everything Blizzard).
But this is definitely not a win for Blizzard games. It’s more like a means to an end to the current toxic relationship the current devs have with their own customers.
A lot of search results are removed because it triggered a response from Google’s AI that controls such things, as well as via legal actions taken against certain results.
It just means Bing’s AI isn’t as developed, and corporate groups don’t bother with forcing results off of Bing’s search engine as much as they force Google to remove 'em. 
Big doodie company buys big doodie company.
You won’t see any improvement until gaming companies shrink to manageable sizes, play their own games, and listen to the community when they should.
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Correction: they wanted candy crush maker King. Call of duty is just something that happen to own as well and comes bundled with it. They have stated this very clearly.
What now? I guess we are stuck with Micro Blizzard.
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Bobby kotic is so close to being on a yauct with cocain … and being retired
Yes… well… that’s what they are going around saying publicly.
I don’t believe words that come out of peoples mouths at face value.
Which isnt a big surprise since the biggest hurdle/complaint they have faced is regarding Call of Duty on Playstation.
If I was trying to buy some company for a single title, amd the FTC equivalent of every nation was questioning my market share over subscription based gaming services, I would spin up a story about it being for mobile games also.
But ain’t nobody worried about “tapping into the mobile market”.
That’s all bs.
Mobile Games are the jankiest jank on the planet lmao
Microsoft doesnt do pay to win scumbag software which are most King mobile games.
I dont see Microsoft giving much thought to mobile games whatsoever. I think it’s all smoke and mirrors to get Call of Duty.
Sony is right. If CoD goes exlusive to xbox, playstation will see massive console sales losses. It’s a huge part of console gaming, especially amongst gamer dads and work gaming groups.
Once they add CoD to the monthly xbox game pass, it’s over. That’s a huge savings that people will get vs buying every new game iterarion and dlc that comes out.
True. That’s what they said, but numbers don’t lie. Candy crush is a monster that somehow makes more money than the rest. I don’t play it, but have heard plenty of stories about kids spending their parents credit cards for points or whatever candy crushes uses. And even then, mobile games are like alcohol sales. It’s not the millions of people that give them the sales, it’s the alcoholics that spend their entire paychecks on beer and liquor. Mobile games are the same way. Those whales spend more than 100$ in purchases weekly than just a one time purchase in the beginning. Combined with the fact that it’s a much bigger potential market (don’t you have phones ring a bell?), doesn’t take much to see the where the market is.
Nothing will change other than a few login policies, it’s not Elon Musk buying up ActiBlizz hence they won’t axe the entire team.
Unless they see D4’s worth then we can hope to see big changes happening.