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Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
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Re: Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
#42So now I'm boycotting Microsoft products? What a weird purchase to make. Did they not know this company is the current star of the gaming industry's long-standing workplace harassment issues?
IMHO they new and it probably drove the acquisition. Kotick gets to cash-in an insane amount of money and retire in 6 months - 2 years, MS gets the biggest independent game company out there and sends Sony a(nother) message they won't forget.
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#43These acquisitions are ridiculous. How long till Disney buys Microsoft? Why even bother having more than one company in the US?
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#44Apparently the price tag is $68.7 billion. How long until they recoup the investment? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-buy-activision-bliz...
That's not how it works.
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#45They are long overdue for a break-up. I guess the US elite thinks otherwise.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
Literally the next sentence: > Once the deal closes, the Activision Blizzard business will report to Phil Spencer, CEO, Microsoft Gaming. So no, they aren't keeping him around. Good call.
That doesn't say that Kotick will be gone, it says that he'll be reporting up to Microsoft.
Corporate speak sometimes requires you to read between the lines.
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#47Congratulations to Phil Spencer, who started out leading an upstart team at Microsoft for a new game console called "Xbox" and is now "CEO of Microsoft Gaming" - a Microsoft Senior Leadership position. Oh, and he now leads the third biggest gaming company on the planet: > When the transaction closes, Microsoft will become the world’s third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony. It will be interes…
Microsoft owns CoD, Doom, Quake, Minecraft, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, and soon Warcraft, Starcraft, and Overwatch.
They're becoming the Disney of gaming, which is scary, but hey, Microsoft gonna Microsoft.
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#48The most important question I have is: will they replace Bobby Kotick? EDIT: "Bobby Kotick will continue to serve as CEO of Activision Blizzard. [...] he and his team will maintain their focus on driving efforts to further strengthen the company’s culture." Shame on you, Microsoft.
I remember a Starcraft II fan map named Bobby Kotick TD. If he hits you, you loose money. If you hit him, you loose money too. It was banned after a short time. To be honest, I think Microsoft and Activision deserve each other.
At least you don't lose money though.
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#49I wonder if this will trigger any antitrust lawsuits. I know Microsoft isn't that of the 90's but it seems like the political situation is ripe for politicians to go after "big tech" and this is a pretty major acquisition that will help Xbox be the dominant player in terms of content.
I doubt it. There are much bigger monopolies in the webspace / ecommerce space than the gaming space.
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#50My god I hate monopolies, MS has been on a buying spree and someone needs to stop them, but it will likely never happen.