Microsoft Buys Activision + Blizzard $70 Billion

Link dodo,must have link!

Man, I thought they paid alot for Minecraft, this is crazy $$.

Sounds like a money laundering scheme?

70 billion?

Activision publishes Tony Hawk Pro Skater

huge money

wow.

Worst company in the world buys Blizzard at its weakest.

Blizzard fans will be disgusted.

So will Sony fanboyz

yeah a lot palms gettin' greased?

One shit buying a turd. Big whoop.

xbox sucks so bad and this just make them suck that much more all those games suck so bad and are like 15-20 years old im gonna charge way more now for my Disney deal

Is it 2002 again?

Will they pull Call of Duty games from Playstation though? They make a lot of money.

My guess is you will be able to buy the game on Playstation but not on their new Gamepass whatever it's called (this should be obvious) but of course it will be on Xbox Gamepass.

they released THPS 1+2 in HD last year

Microsoft will probably exclusive it wouldn't pay 70 billion to not try and sway users to buy their tech...

Cod games are ass and have been on their way out for a long time anyway...

He ain't playing fair with his jab money, buying up loads of companies for the exclusives

Talk about major money laundering

Its about using project jedi cloud service in austin to cross platform the games for all software requirements.

Already been disappointed since Diablo 3. Blizzard has been dead to me since Activision started pushing microtransactions.

Maybe it's for the better. EA started targeting the normies who will buy a new Madden every few months, and Konami abandoned games altogether for pacinko. It's honestly a better business model than having to make quality, unique products every time.

Last Edited by Depluribus Unum on 01/18/2022 11:15 AM

Here you are:

[link to news.microsoft.com (secure)]

And some discussion:

[link to news.ycombinator.com (secure)]

PS: Fuck Microsoft

Activision, Blizzard and Activision Blizzard are 3 different companies.

It's Blizzard.

Think WOW.

Activision Blizzard/Founded
9 July 2008, Santa Monica, California, United States

Blizzard Entertainment/Founded
8 February 1991, Irvine, California, United States

Activision/Founded
1 October 1979, Sunnyvale, California, United States

Good that they made D2 resurrected before that. Now I dont care. Best game ever with improved graphics, cant really ask for more.

It's not Blizzard, it's Activision Blizzard. It's a separate entity

Really?

I thought there was only one Blizzard.

My mistake.

Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Diablo, etc...

Soon to be coded by Microsoft's Indian programmers, available only with the GamePass.

Blizard and Activision set up a collaborative company called Activision Blizzard. Activision and Blizzard still operate as separate entities. there are 3 companies here, but people are confusing Activision Blizard to be Activision and Blizzard. They're not

They cant do worse than activision and blizzard did. In fact Microsoft's gaming division is pretty good

The literally ARE the wasteland

The wasteland of the Gates family.

Every Microsoft employee is a stinking turd, who needs to be relieved of the air in their lungs.

They're still in charge of WOW though I thought. Blizzard puts their logo on that, but Activision Blizzard is the real host company. Unless I'm mistaken.