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https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/01/18/welcoming-activision-blizzard-to-microsoft-gaming/quote:Welcoming the Incredible Teams and Legendary Franchises of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft Gaming So no more Bobby according to that chart kri kri fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Jan 18, 2022 |
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A 70 billion loving deal. I wonder if this gets 10Cent out of the decision making at the company or if there's some sort of continuance clause for current board members.
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Who was the person who wanted a COD MCC? lol
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HAHAHA gently caress YOU BOBBY KOTICK, YOU PIECE OF poo poo. I don't love industry consolidation but gently caress THAT DUDE, go get him Phil.
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What in the absolute blazing gently caress.
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I know there was already work done to get controller support in WoW a few years back, so it wouldn't be too surprising if they finally bring it to the Xbox. Even if the game is in a long decline an all-in-one console release would probably do very well. EDIT: They could even boost the PC version's popularity by making your Game Pass subscription count as a WoW subscription because why the hell not. Corin Tucker's Stalker fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Jan 18, 2022 |
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Sony is absolutely going to buy someone big like Square at this point, if they don't it's gunna the 360 generation alllll over again. edit: ^^^^^ They'll launch it on gamepass either free + sub-fee or just straight free for gamepass ultimate players, it'll be a loving monster reinfusion into the game
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"Activision Blizzard games are enjoyed on a variety of platforms and we plan to continue to support those communities moving forward." But being on Game Pass is still going to be a huge advantage Imagine if I was able to play the Vanguard campaign without paying $60 like a dumbass
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My boys at MS saving my soul for enjoying Spyro and Tony Hawk
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Philthy Phil out here big dicking the whole industry
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Holy gently caress buckets that's a big deal. They splashed out like $26 billion for LinkedIn I think that might be their biggest acquisition to date? This is totally going to to end up in some anti trust hearing but wow if they pull it off. On the other hand you look at TV/movies and Disney etc owning half of entertainment and no one stops them. I guess when you are a trillion plus company waving around so much cash isn't that much percentage wise but it's still feels like madness. Is this the deal where you say 'we're still going to publish this on Playstation'? Is this the one that's there's just to much money to be made to not make these exclusive? Or do you say gently caress it they're ours. Otherwise why buy them right? Edit: they do say 'across every device' but still jeez.
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Zat posted:lol wtf @ the activision thing Feels like it came right the gently caress outta nowhere. Shame that the sexpests are probably going to escape punishment or scrutiny.
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Red Warrior posted:Holy gently caress buckets that's a big deal. This is the one where it probably gets to the point where they could publish COD for full price on PS, but it doesn't matter. The whole endgame here is to make the value proposition: "sure, you can buy this for $70 on PS IF YOU WANT TO, but you could also just pay $15-20 per month and play it on Xbox, along with every other loving big game you want to play". It's the exact same gamble that Netflix made that ultimately paid off - you make it so that the value proposition is essentially mandatory - you'd be insane right now now to have a Gamepass subscription. Then they'll increase rates in like 5 years and watch money roll in. Netflix eventually got big-hitting competitors that evened that out a bit...but the real question is whether Sony even has the ability to do this kind of thing themselves, now.
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Does this mean a WoW subscription gets rolled into Game Pass? That would be cool - sometimes I feel like playing it for a bit, but having to sub for a whole month when I've had my fix after a week is annoying.
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Nearly ten times what they paid for Bethesda. loving crazy.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Nearly ten times what they paid for Bethesda. loving crazy. Activision's catalog also loving sucks lol The only games they released they actually own in the last 5 years are CoD, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk. Maybe the Sekiro franchise, but not FromSoftware.
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wow yeah that small series CoD
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Roman posted:"Activision Blizzard games are enjoyed on a variety of platforms and we plan to continue to support those communities moving forward." Imagine paying seventy billion dollars for a company still supporting your competitor. That's a solid entry for smartest use of money this week, along with that crypto group that paid $3 million for a Dune picture book, thinking it gave them the IP rights to Dune.
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Aphrodite posted:Activision's catalog also loving sucks lol CoD and all the Blizzard IPs are what they've paid for here. The others are icing on the cake but CoD, Warcraft and Diablo are three of the biggest IPs out there and will drive a monstrous number of new Game Pass subs.
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Red Warrior posted:Is this the deal where you say 'we're still going to publish this on Playstation'? Is this the one that's there's just to much money to be made to not make these exclusive? Or do you say gently caress it they're ours. Otherwise why buy them right? Whatever is currently in development will probably still end up on Sony platforms, but after that? I'm not so sure. https://blog.playstation.com/2022/01/12/playstation-stores-top-downloads-of-2021/ CoD is a huge piece of the Sony pie, as illustrated in the charts above. Warzone is the second most downloaded F2P game in the US, third in EU markets - across PS4 and PS5. Vanguard, Modern Warfare and Black Ops: Cold War all charted as the most downloaded games of 2021.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:wow yeah that small series CoD I didn't say they're small I said they suck. ErrEff posted:Whatever is currently in development will probably still end up on Sony platforms, but after that? I'm not so sure. Too much of CoD's money comes from Playstation. They can afford to stop that because they're Microsoft and they'll bury it in all the other money Xbox loses every year, but they probably shouldn't.
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Microsoft could really ratfuck Sony by making COD console exclusive to the xbone. That's a shitload of money on the table though so I can't see it happening, at most it'll be optimized for the xbox.
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You don’t spend $70B and not make CoD an exclusive. It might take a couple years or be weird based on any existing contracts but it 100% will be before long.
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elf help book posted:My boys at MS saving my soul for enjoying Spyro and Tony Hawk
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univbee posted:Imagine paying seventy billion dollars for a company still supporting your competitor. They will do what they did with Bethesda - honor all announcements/commitments made by the publisher but going forward stuff will be Xbox (PC/console) exclusive except for mobile games.
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