What are you talking about? Are you a bot or something?
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what are you confused or something. do you even know what is being talked about what is going on why microsoft even got into the position to even buy blizzard and what happened to lead up to that and the impact of what happend harmed the devs the game and ruined the reputation of blizzard to the point of becomming big news globally. if you really think im a bot and really dont know what im talking about you really need to get informed. as for the discussion of the forum is will microsoft ownership improve wow as compared to the previous ownership via activision whos CEO is Bobby kotek who allowed corruption abuse and a death to acure his all this for years and it only comming out due to a lawsuit which lead to company now being bought to get a new CEO and the ownership has yet to be 100% completed its being held up by several things. so dont act as if im stupid or a bot i have been kept involved in this game and the company since the 90s
it will have no impact.
will Microsoft owning WoW improve Windows?
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I’m only hoping the direction of WoW and Blizzard Ent all together changes and improves in a drastically positive way. Alot has been making players of past and present leave because of many factors that feeds into it. I’m holding out hope but for the moment it seems like the future is dry and doesn’t seem like it’ll get better.
I am worried actually.
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I don’t think Microsoft buying Blizzard will make much of a difference to WoW.
Maybe the rest of Blizzard’s games but I don’t think much will happen to this one.
I can kind of respect your idealism here, but most CEOs don’t really care about the everyday worker. $$$$ for themselves and their shareholders are their primary concern.
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This is more common than not and I suspect may very well happen to WoW if MS buys Blizzard games.
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I think it will make things more tolerable. Although I don’t find Microsoft a god send I do think they can make games at least enjoyable. I had a blast honestly re-discovering Minecraft, not even kidding. They did so much with it I spent a few weeks just exploring againxD
microsoft practice hands-off way of handling studios
That’s why we have Redfall
Unfortunately, Bethesda had more than its fair share of issues long before Microsoft took over. Those issues just made it easier for Microsoft to gobble them up.
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I really hope that the sale is blocked, this game has enough gambling as it is (RNG horrendously low drop rate items) that you may or may not actually get no matter how much you farm.
No, the outlook doesn’t look good. As another poster said, it’s about the console titles. That is why Sony fill all those lawsuits. That leaves WOW on the outside. Who knows? MS could look to sell the rights to WOW and keep only the console games.
im hopeful but i dont expect anything good to happen. its easier to take it when you expect so little the only way left is up. ideally ide love it for them to fix the game and bring it back to a better place and put it on gamepass so i can game with old friends again
In public companies, CEOs are hired and fired by the board of directors of a company. The board of directors are appointed by the largest stock shareholders of the company. Kotick owns over 4 million shares of Activision / Blizzard stock and that makes him one of the largest individual shareholders of the company. There are no real checks and balances.
Capitalism at its “finest.”
I don´t understand how this will give active players though?
Isn´t gamepass 13$ a month or something? Why would someone who want´s to play wow but can´t afford the sub, be benefiting from this?
And those that use the gamepass, most likely do so to play the console games on PC, as there is no other option to do so.
@topic
I don´t know any microsoft games, that truly worked for me with the exception of Age of Empires back in the days. Some may now say HALO, but that is a shooter and I guess if a product would benefit from the deal, it may be Overwatch 2.
MS has like no experience with the MMO market or RPG´s and the usual MS gamer is the console nerd with Xbox, that may not even know WOW exists.
Fallout 76 seems to have gained some benefit from the deal with MS, I give you that. But again, it´s a console game and WOW isn´t, so I question a similar path for WOW.
If microsoft does buy Activision Blizzard, and they look at player numbers and figure something is wrong, they have more options than funding vs not funding.
Much like Akama in The Black Temple trailer, we will just trade one evil master for another.
So, here’s the thing, and you can look this up.
Microsoft is quite hands off with it’s studios, it expects products to be delivered and it expects a certain standard but other than that it’s been quite hands off… this is good and bad,in the case of halo it’s been bad… but you need to focus on WHY Microsoft is buying blizzard.
That’s important.
Microsoft is buying atvi for KING because they want in mobile gaming.knstead of training up their own people,they are buying in. They also want cod. Not to make it exclusive, I don’t honestly believe that, since there is no fiscal reason to make it exclusive when you can leave it as is and just make COD a first party game pass title and cod only players will likely organically migrate to the console to save a couple hundred bucks over the life of the console (first party games are free day 1 on game pass).
But, I think it will be a net-positive because, despite what others say, they don’t need atvi to be wildly profitable to survive. They make the VAST majority of their money elsewhere, this is just growth in a sector of their business… so they don’t need to bleed it for every single drop they can get out of it. I don’t think, as others have said, that we will see microtransations increase dramatically, while I don’t think they cut out microtransations (they are more profitable than actual game sales now and are not going anywhere in the industry) I also think it’s ignorant to paint Microsoft as this evil corp trying to maximize profit in everything.
They released a new flight simulator. Why? They will NEVER recoup the costs to develop that. Ever. They did it anyways because it was an interesting project. They also are one of the biggest pushers of cross platform licenses (play anywhere) where one license covers all platforms… they have been trying to force this over a decade… which, while yes… fits their cloud gaming and pc gaming dominance vs competitors in the console space… But it is also wildly consumer friendly vs the “license per platform” pushed by Sony, ea, atvi, etc.
The original Xbox one too, while lambasted for it’s “always online” requirement originally… only had that because Microsoft wanted to create a marketplace where you could buy games digitally and then sell your digital key to other gamers as a used key… so it wouldn’t be “you buy it and then that’s it you never can recoup theoney in any way” but the campaign against them was so massive because so many big gaming companies didn’t want you to have the right to resell your digital licenses that nobody even realizes that was a thing. So Microsoft quietly shut it down, and turned it into game pass.
Microsoft is massive, they are not altruistic,they are there to make a profit. Without question, but they also care about creating an ecosystem that creates consumer loyalty jn a positive way.
I think if the deal goes through at the very least blizzard, as a studio, gets released from the clutches of kotick and at the very least they will have some more room to make a product they are passionate about, instead of being forced to make a product that tried to force us into spending every last dime we have on it.
I liked destiny, but the “pay for expansions, pay for battlepasses, pay for dungeon passes, pay for seasonal event passes, pay the good looking gear which only comes out via microtrandaction” etc etc etc etc etc just got to a point where I’m paying so much… To play the same 6 instances I was playing 4 years ago, and for what? Without Microsoft and their endless pockets, this is probably the direction wow is headed. With Microsoft I think we stick fairly close to current monetization.
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You say this like it would matter in a merger. One of the first things companies do in a merger is gut the company they just acquired lol