Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?
Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?
I was kinda hoping Microsoft would improve Activision.
Someone’s an optimist.
The bar to be an improvement is so obscenely low that it’s almost impossible for Microsoft not to be better.
I’m generally pro-Xbox but don’t consider myself a fanboy. I think the acquisition will be good for both brands.
I do worry about what they’ll do with the Blizzard IPs, but at this point I’m worried about Blizzard regardless.
Blizzard destroyed warcraft 3, quite possibly the greatest game ever made, with their “reforged” bullshit and I can never forgive them for that. I swore them off afterward. I am ashamed to say that I caved and bought Diablo 4 and was reminded what a shit company they are because they somehow managed to suck all the fun out of that too.
In the development world, Microsoft is actually doing some legitimately good work since the end of the Balmer years. Back then open source was a cancer that needed to be eliminated. Now they have VSCode (maybe the most popular IDE at the moment), develop and release Typescript under an open license, and own github (still a bit of a mixed bag but they’re trying).
Only if Bobby Kotick will be replaced by a real game developer and not a suit.
Supposedly, Kotick is out if Microsoft gets to take over. My assumption was that Microsoft won’t wanna keep running the IP into the ground right after acquiring it
Narrator: They won’t.
Well they certainly can’t turn it into the worst gaming company because EA still exists.
It’s hard to believe that Microsoft is going to own World of Warcraft.
I look forward to fighting Clippy as a raid boss
I’ve not played wow since legion but I would come back for that
I’ve never played wow but might have to try if that happens
Its still too soon, isnt it? Like regulators still havent OKd it and stuff yet.
Yeah I think they approved it and are now reexamining it once again.
You can still hope. The acquisition is not complete yet.