Microsoft buying Activision (World of Warcraft, Call of Duty etc)
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I noticed on the BBC News article that Blizz also owned Candy Crush. Last time I checked though, I was pretty sure that Candy Crush was made by King?
Microsoft will own Warcraft, Starcraft and Minecraft.
No, it's not a coincident!
Microsoft will own Warcraft, Starcraft and Minecraft.
No, it's not a coincident!
Yeah Blizz bought King a few years back for something insane like £5bn
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Bethesda too. All your base are belong to us!
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Some reports saying some of the games will remain on Playstation.
We'll have to wait and see what happens.
Bill gates has nothing to do with MSFT any more, I think he owns like 1% of shares if he still holds them.
it would be more like phil spencer wants warcraft 4.
shame no one can afford to buy valve, only chance we ever see hl3
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Please make WoW good again or even make WoW 2.
With all this metaverse stuff going on you would think mmorpgs would be on the up.
After all this blizzard controversy and another duff expansion WoW needs help. Player numbers are low. I hope they dont make the game pay to win. Level boost is bad enough.
Also WoW on Xbox as FFIV is on PlayStation
I think it's a good move. Activision are pure scum. If it doesn't work out I will just play ashes of creation.
With all this metaverse stuff going on you would think mmorpgs would be on the up.
After all this blizzard controversy and another duff expansion WoW needs help. Player numbers are low. I hope they dont make the game pay to win. Level boost is bad enough.
Also WoW on Xbox as FFIV is on PlayStation
I think it's a good move. Activision are pure scum. If it doesn't work out I will just play ashes of creation.
I'd prefer a World of Diablo MMO
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WOW2 please.
And dump this metaverse ********, no wants it it, no-one cares, like NFT's.
And dump this metaverse ********, no wants it it, no-one cares, like NFT's.
Crazy money, I don't think this is a good thing for gamers though, if it carries on its going to be like social media with 2 or 3 big companies controlling everything.
never going to happen unless they fire all the writers and system devs
never going to happen unless they fire all the writers and system devs
why would you want more of the same but just classed as "wow 2" with the current quality of blizzard staff?
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Microsoft can now sack them all and hire new staff or move staff from other projects.
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That is bad definetly
metaverse isn't about gaming it's about getting people to buy pixels and will be worse than mobile gaming.
it's way too soon anyway and I don't see it taking off
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For the "metaverse" to truly take off we would need good, cheap full motion VR with haptics, and that's a long way off yet.
Soldato
Not sure whether I like the idea of 175gb download of a COD game via Xbox Gamepass. Doesnt always download stuff right.
Bill Gates wants to be the US version of Greta Thunberg now dont you know. Saving the planet.
Bill Gates wants to be the US version of Greta Thunberg now dont you know. Saving the planet.
Don
definitely a bad thing, with some further thoughts here:
https://kotaku.com/this-was-inevitable-1848380310
https://kotaku.com/this-was-inevitable-1848380310