This acquisition of activision blizzard needs to be broken up if they don’t want anymore legal headwinds.
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IDC what happens I just want Bobby gone.
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This week, Microsoft brokered a deal to sell the streaming of activation/blizzard games to Ubisoft. This is to appease the British authorities so they approve the purchase. So the deal will probably go through.
Bobby might even leave but I don’t think it is a requirement of the acquisition.
No one expects the Microsoft acquisition.
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Huh. That makes sense. I had heard in passing that Blizz games were going to Ubisofts platform and all I could think was “wtf? Why?”, since who even uses Ubisoft launcher, but now I understand.
do you want Bill Gates to run this?
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More than Bobby Kotick, yes. Unfortunately I don’t think Bobby os going anywhere, though.
Get ready for Master Chief armor in WoW, Playas!
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why? you’ve never even met him? what has he done to you?
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Ew I thought I had you on ignore.
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compelling retort… guess I win. gg.
Would you rather Amazon or EA?
Gamigo or Tencent might also be interested…
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He’d be preferable to Kotick, for sure, but Bill Gates stepped down as Microsoft’s CEO back in 2000, and stopped being chairman in 2014. He hasn’t been in charge of the company for a long time.
Also from what I understand, two of the other companies lining up to try and buy ActiBlizz were Meta and… I think Tencent? I can’t even begin to imagine how much worse either of those two would be.
Off you go with a better offer then!!
Bill Gates hasn’t been involved with the day to day running of Microsoft for 20 years now.
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One is a philanthropist who has used his billions to make the lives of countless millions better and the other is a corpo goblin who explicitly knew about and enabled sexual misconduct at his company.
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The only country standing in the way of the acquisition is the UK and Microsoft just announced they’re selling the cloud streaming rights (the entire crux of the UK’s argument) of Activision/Blizzard products to Ubisoft for non-EU markets. There’s no “legal headwinds” to stop the acquisition. Even if the UK’s CMA still rejects the new deal, Microsoft has the nuclear option of pulling out of the UK and then signing agreements with UK-based distributors to get around the CMA’s decision.
You don’t need to meet him to see all the stuff he did. From ex-developers to former employees who spoke on the matter. There’s also the fact he had the galls to layoff 800 people in a year with record profits for Actiblizz. I can go on…