Anyone thinking Microsoft buying Blizzard are in for a disappointment

Off-Topic Games, Gaming and Hardware
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People are afraid of microtransactions… you may as well get used to it. I’ve said year after year that it is where gaming is going and there is no stopping it. You say no one is going to buy when a game sucks, but literally thousands of people bought the cat mount that came out in November.

And Microsoft isn’t going to lock quests and stuff behind a pay wall unless it is an expansion. This has never been the case. We will probably get more store mounts, outfits and other stuff but they aren’t going to lock stuff behind a pay wall unless it is cosmetic.

I am not going to say this was the only hope for blizzard since so many people play Call of Duty and Destiny, but it was the only hope for WoW.

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Do you want to be reminded what acti blizz did to shadowlands and bfa?

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That’s for stability, wait one year and he will be gone

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Is this an anti-WoW post?
Doom and gloom from the guy who defended every bad decision in BFA and SL?
I guess all it took was MS buying ATVI to break a troll.

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I’m still playing wow don’t worry

I just wanted to point out things you might not like

I’d still buy it no matter what

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I suspect Microsoft will be like Vivendi. The only difference is Microsoft being a bigger/more well known company.

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Anyone that doesn’t think microtransactions are the future is crazy.

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Everyone will get exactly what they deserve and karma won’t even kinda care. All of you brought this in on yourselves. You couldn’t share nothing and went out of your to make sure others got as little as possible. And now you don’t even have hope or a real gaming home. I’d have a hard time looking at myself in the mirror too.

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I was concerned but now that I see Clark saying its bad I kinda tend to believe its a spectacular change

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What are you talking about?

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His contract has a company sell-out clause. He will remain until the ink dries and the deal goes through. At that point, everyone will report to Phil Spencer as CEO. This has already been covered in the Microsoft post.

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This is why I’m 66% optimistic, 33% “eh whatevs”, and only 1% cranky. Like, maybe we’ll get finished products?

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When the answer to “But it’s going to take months for me to get through that grind, what should I do?” is “There’s an item you can buy in the cash shop to help you get past that real quick” that’s intentional.

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GD right now:

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why are you worried, i thought you had unlimited $ for wow

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Corporate Mergers rarely benefit the consumer in the long run… They end up in less choice and higher costs.

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And Bill hasn’t been directly involved with MS in a very long time.

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Good news! This means that we’ll probably be able to buy gear, achievements and what not directly through the store. No need for carries yay! /sarcasm off

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Whatever MS does to wow won’t be any worse then the abysmal material blizz pushes out already.

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I enjoy being able to trade gold for game time and I hope this stays. If there are more micro-transactions to buy with “Battle.net Balance,” and I can continue to turn in-game gold into Battle.net Balance, then perhaps I’ll enjoy buying micro-transactions.

Since the whole premise of the gold/Battle.net Balance flip is that other players spend real-world dollars on gold, there’s every reason for this to remain intact, because the whole setup is generating more money for Blizzard (Microsoft, whoever). I’m cautiously optimistic.

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