I just wanted to point out a few great games that Microsoft created. Dungeon siege in 2002, also Activision was a gaming developer since the 80’s. They remind me of Sega genesis, because they could no longer harbor or do the hardware of the system, they turned to create video games which actually got their lead in development. I feel the same way about Activision, now the developers are obviously different now from then and that goes for all these gaming studios. Back in the day, these games were very well programed from ground deep and up. Now a days, all of it is surface paced. and I get it but I’m not a fan of it. It’s like working with a geologists that does not know the science of their own turf/terrain. I find it hard to fathom that video games will die off because one company has more money than the other, however it is highly possible due to greed. When greed over powers any company, you are looking at the workers that actually have passion for what they are doing taken away. I know because I was there all these years and I clearly see the corruption and split between what is important to one person vs a million people. I think I got fully invested in many games within my life time and the reason was because I was searching for adventure that my own life could not provide. I think the first game I played was seriously was on Sega Gen and it was Dungeons and Dragons, Warriors of the Eternal Sun. That game changed my life. I had to be very strategic in my party, I failed a few times but I was determined and I beat it finally. I will admit I played sick to stay home from school and continue my journey in this game. I had a party of four and I had to maneuver all my party members and that was when I fell in love with video games. 
I was 12 years old, that was 1991. It doest matter because if a company is failing and another takes it on, you know that something is up or wrong, In my old opinion I think the game has run it’s course and the amount of time and effort to keep a game going is not worth their money(blizz and activision), which I can understand because you are making money sure but only enough to keep the lights on in all these games, these companies took a gamble and went for it and only to see that a pandemic can and will effect people in a very big way, if they are not getting the money ,.
When a company is bought out, it is a red flag. I’ve seen it with many gaming companies where the CEO or whomever is in charge puts money into their team and the outcome is not what they wanted. And yes the ceo is the guy behind all of these games, not a great programmer or developer like how it used to be. Games are dying to greed just like movies, and everything else. I think its odd that people are not aware of these companies, they rule our lives, Microsoft was one of them, they started with software and worked their way up.
The Activision Vivendi merger was a similar thing. It’s not like Blizzard was an independent prior to that anyawy.
It might be. The whole, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish thing was a concern, but hey… Github seems to be doing fine, so far 
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But, if you’d rather have activision blizzard than literally anything, you’re crazy.
Also, look at Minecraft. Top sales of 238,000,000 units, and they also let modders come into the scene, which, modders that have access to server play make the life of a game live on for eons.
Also, MS would never put up with the sexual harassment and bullsh1t blizzard has been doing to its employees for a decade. So, that’s a big W for people who actually work their butts off for you to eat candy, sip soda and enjoy the games that somehow programmers and developers didn’t make, in your words.
Microsoft doesnt care about wow or blizzard.
They wanted cod to hold over sony as a bargaining chip.
Its almost like the people who hang around here are unintelligent or something.
Exactly this… In all the press release information no where does any of it say World of Warcraft, Diablo or anything like that… Its all About CoD this, CoD that…
If you think for a second that they didn’t want WoW, Diablo, Etc for game pass you are all sadly mistaken. Sure they wanted CoD to strong-arm Sony, but let’s be real. Their game plan has been to get as many people on the game pass as possible. If you think Microsoft paid 70b simply to strong-arm Sony with CoD you are sadly mistaken.
I didnt say that they didnt want them. But that they clearly are not what they was mainly going after. Think of WoW and Diablo as just icing on the cake.
I am actually hopeful that this will bring renewed interest into WoW as a whole and open it up to the console audience with the use of keypad/boards.
Literally every article lists it as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Candy Crush Saga, and Diablo… That is likely the order of value as well.
Well, they dont care about wow, they got this cause they wanted mobile games division, thats all, this could get worse by a ton…
My fingers are crossed for the return of all the sierra properties activision killed and buried.
I’m optimistic about the microsoft buyout since Actiblizzard has been struggling with money hungry investors (including the CEO and CFO’s) squeezing Blizzard to rush out bad and unfinished products to meet investor call expectations and make profit yearly at any cost.
Hopefully with so much money injected into the company they can spend at least some of it actually hiring people to fix ingame issues and increase the TBCC dev team from 1 person to 2 or 3. Their previous profits of 7bln a year apparently wasn’t enough to cover it.
I so forgot about those, like Kings Quest…
quest for glory remake!??!
Pretty sure the red flags for Activision Blizzard were known: 1) all the bad news over the past year+, 2) the Diablo mobile game fiasco showing the direction they were aiming for, 3) any chart of WoW subs the past 15 years…
I’m generally hopeful that Microsoft leadership will be good for Blizzard. Split the company up into separate divisions (Activision, Blizzard, and King as their own separate silos) and let them go in their own directions.
I think WoW needs to be completely rebuilt as a 2.0 game that reimagines classic for a modern day; i.e. simpler initial systems but on a modernized game engine/modern graphics/etc.
Right now retail WoW is a very complex game for new players that basically disincentivizes people to prepare their characters for raids.
It doesn’t have to be as simple as Classic/TBC per se, but the barrier to entry should be low for initial raiding progress (get to max level, get some attunements, try to gather some dungeon gear). That just isn’t the case in retail.
For me, it has to be the reverse. Being able to strong-arm Sony is the icing on the cake over obtaining all the franchises that are more or less guaranteed to be successful and bring in profit.
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