It's an absolute shame Bobby Kotick will continue to function as CEO.
Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
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Re: Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
#52Can somebody please explain to me, why is it allowed for a company like MS to buy all of their (indirect) competitors?
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Re: Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
#53With these kind of acquisitions, other companies are going to find it very hard to compete with Game Pass.
I think we'll look back in 10 years and wonder why antitrust regulators did nothing, but it may be too late by then.
Re: Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
#54Can somebody please explain to me, why is it allowed for a company like MS to buy all of their (indirect) competitors?
Why wouldn't they be allowed to? Companies acquire smaller companies and competitors all the time, it's called consolidation.
One party want to sell, the other wants to buy. As long as the deal doesn't breach any anti-trust laws, it's good to go.
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#55This is... unexpected. Wow and COD on Gamepass?
Re: Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
#56Can somebody please explain to me, why is it allowed for a company like MS to buy all of their (indirect) competitors?
In our legal system, actions are legal unless there is a law making them illegal.
If you are referring to anti-trust laws preventing this, then MS would need to be buying a huge number of companies to monopolize the gaming market, not just Activision, in order to be in violation of this law.
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#57So was all the bad press Activision got recently in spite of, or driven by, acquisition plans? What better way to put pressure on a company to give up its independence than public shame and infamy?
Prolly knocked a few bucks off the price at least.
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#58Wow, has MS gotten that profitable or has Acti/Blizz been doing that badly to be considered a „good deal“? Tho, it certainly fits what MS has been going for with its gaming division; Game pass ultimate has a weird lack of „third party aaa” titles in certain genres. For example EA Play is included in game pass ultimate, but by now all the new EA stuff is locked behind “EA Play pro”. Having the whole Acti/Blizz lineup…
Nadella transformed a company that was at risk of turning into the next IBM into the 2nd most valuable company in the world. Where have you been the past 9 years of his tenure?
Re: Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
#59My name is Grom Hellscream, He/Him.
Re: Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard
#60Earlier 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.
Golden parachute incoming... Probably hanging around for a few months until the buyout completes, then off he goes.