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Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion

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The oligopolies grow stronger. 

I wonder if they will throw any games onto Game pass like they did with Bethesda.

Just read this, and I was trying to explain to my girlfriend (who isn't a gamer and knows nothing about them) just how HUGE this news was to the gaming landscape. I couldn't really come up with a good analogy. Maybe when Star Wars, Fox, and Marvel were bought out by Disney?

 

I don't mind Microsoft, and I subscribe to GamePass, so I think this can work out to my favor. Especially since Activision has been so toxic recently.

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I don't mind Microsoft, and I subscribe to GamePass, so I think this can work out to my favor. Especially since Activision has been so toxic recently.


Yeah, Kotick probably eroded billions in value in the transaction with the last 12 months. Makes you wonder if the timing of all the allegations and airing of dirty laundry was deliberate.
35 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

Just read this, and I was trying to explain to my girlfriend (who isn't a gamer and knows nothing about them) just how HUGE this news was to the gaming landscape. I couldn't really come up with a good analogy. Maybe when Star Wars, Fox, and Marvel were bought out by Disney?

 

I don't mind Microsoft, and I subscribe to GamePass, so I think this can work out to my favor. Especially since Activision has been so toxic recently.

Tell her it's like when Activision bought Blizzard. 

I just hope one day Blizzard makes fun games again.

Even their "remaster" games have sucked and those were based on amazing games.

I'm stoked. I love Blizzard games, and I primarily use Game Pass now. Hopefully they do it right

I loved Sierra games. All the Quest games are some of my all-time favorites. Would love a remastered Quest for Glory series. Hard to imagine and I don't recall how... but at one point I even received a Sierra magazine? 

37 minutes ago, YChang said:

I loved Sierra games. All the Quest games are some of my all-time favorites. Would love a remastered Quest for Glory series. Hard to imagine and I don't recall how... but at one point I even received a Sierra magazine? 

I bet this sequel has a different name.

 

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13 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

I bet this sequel has a different name.

 

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Battle of the conflict to fit your narrative! Fun for the whole family. 

Wow.  The whole industry going to consolidate into two or three titans?

Which companies are Apple and Google going to buy?  Apple get EA?  Google get Ubisoft?

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