People don’t understand that Activision Blizzard might have pressured the wow team to make money, but they didn’t tell them to add all the crap that people hate to the game, that was on the devs and leads.
WoW continues to be a money maker for Blizzard. Maybe not like in the past, but still. About the only change I expect to see is to have more resources thrown at the game, if only related to customer service, and an Xbox/controller support.
Frankly though, I think you’re way more likely to see D4 come out sooner, and definitely be available for Xbox.
The acquisition isn’t even finalized. It could potentially fall through and never happen. There’s nothing to “lobby” for. There’s no “issue.”
Microsoft will eventually in the next couple few years do what it deems necessary to fold it into the mix. But right now, it has to actually make the acquisition first and have it succeed.
So I’m not sure what you want to “lobby” for. And keep in mind that they barely even touched ESO after the Zenimax acquisition. We’ve got a little over a year before it’s even an official acquisition. Things soldier on as they are right now until June 2023.
You can talk about things all you want. No one is stopping you. But getting worked up and doomsaying and claiming false information like some of these threads do is hyperbolic at best.
Just like when Blizzard and Activision merged, nothing bad happened from that, absolutely nothing!
Activision peeps just let Blizzard be Blizzard so they could continue to operate totally separately and independently, free of any and all interference from Activision’s side of things.
That’s totally how it will work with our forthcoming Redmontonian Overlords
Sega is an independent company. It’s not owned by Microsoft.
Sega abandoned console making after the Dreamcast because it cost them way too much money to make and it bombed, especially as the PlayStation 2 began to creep up on them. They reportedly needed to sell 5 million Dreamcast consoles in order to remain financially competitive with Sony, but they fell short of that number, only selling just over 3 million units.
Then in 2001 Sega discontinued the Dreamcast and console creation entirely and refocused themselves into a game developer/publisher that would create 3rd party games for multiple consoles and PC.
Could we at least get the Purble Place cooking dailies?
Seriously though, I don’t see how the price of playing the game is pay2win.
I remember debates about the wow token and level boosts being p2w, but those mostly just gear alts for current content unless you’re spending hundreds of dollars on tokens for pvp and mythic raid carries. And not even sure how far anyone could carry a deadweight in rated pvp. Folks might be able to carry a deadweight on cutting edge achieve, but shudder to think what that costs…
Had EA purchased Activision Blizzard, then you’d be right. Microsoft however, is not EA. They did not gut Bethesda, they did not gut the studio who created Minecraft.
What you’re claiming simply doesn’t stack up with reality.
