Every Activision Blizzard Franchise Microsoft Will Own In Huge Acquisition Deal

I think it's funny how much people are focusing on how this will potentially affect the Xbox. lol As if that in any way measures up to the potential impact it will have on PC gaming. Once again, Xbox fanboi short-sightedness. Your console sucks and will always come in third place against Sony and Nintendo. No matter how shitty of a half-assed WoW port they create for it.

As a businessman myself I congratulate MS for this acquisition. What people don't realize that in any business...in order to grow you can't do it yourself unless you have the vision, investment, capex and are willing to take the enormous risk of losing it all.

By acquiring Activision/Blizzard, MS has minimised risk by not having to worry about the vision and core competencies of the company and can just leave it as is. All MS has to do is make sure the right management is in place and that the employees are leading fulfilling roles. It will lead to the Xbox not only having a much more diversified gaming ip portfolio but will also raise its valuation.

This is the businessman in me saying this (also cause I invested lol). The gamer in me is starting see monopolistic tendencies happening where great IPs are being controlled by one company which essentially means that you have to buy their hardware (then again i own all the consoles so don't really care much but for those who have to budget their gaming it can be a pain in the ass).

you have so huge wall. when i look at those names im just imagining things from 1980-2005. and we saw most of those franchises fall from stardom into the gutter. so even if you managed to make absolutely stunning new crash bandicoot people would still compare it to the originals, which you really shouldnt aim for.

i still think the way the original xbox came out with halos, ampeds, fuzion frenzys, blinxs, azuriks and you could even say splinter cell and kotor was magnificent. you didnt take anyones sloppy seconds but came up with new characters and worlds that while not all games were amazing they had surprise and content. x360 also almost did the same when initially gears of war, kameo, dead rising, mass effect and bioshock at least were planned to be exclusive

id hope theyd have the vision and courage to come out with that again. sea of thieveses, gunks and awokens might not be bad signals. but dont jump into crash 13, spyro 8, cod 25, tony hawk 11 etc. wagon

Glad I don’t play any of that garbage.

lol, tony hawk and lost vikings.

They're getting Blizzard right as it's taking a nosedive and call of duty I guess.

When will MS swallow up Sony?....won't be long....:)

Umm excuse me, what about Rock'n Roll Racing. Isn't it about time for a follow up?

Out of all of these; 6-8 have been collecting dust ala put into maintenance mode. Cuz those MAUs right? It's insane. Now I can finally get my new Tony Hawk or at least put the damn THUG1-2/THAW series on PC, please!

Personally, I could care less. This merger won't make any of their games console specific. On a side note I'd LOVE to see some Sierra properties get remade or even new ones created. Most notably, No One Lives Forever, SWAT, Tribes, Contract J.A.C.K., Nexus, World in Conflict or a new FEAR game. Oh, my, yes. A new FEAR game would be SWEEEEET.

Welp. Looks like I'm keeping my Gamepass sub for life then.

My only wish is that MS would stop Activision from making all those DLC for COD. I know but one can hope!

They know the only thing they can do to compete with PS is just buy up all the publishers. Absolutely pathetic.

lol

They're going to mandate Microsoft accounts for any games that have an online component like they did with Minecraft aren't they (in particular they will probably scrap Battle.net entirely and integrate all the games that use it into Microsoft's ecosystem)? Man that sucks

Candy Crush is a joke but it brings in a ridiculous amount of money.