On the one hand: I really don't like mergers between giants.
On the other: ActiBlizz has been a cancer in the industry for over a decade, fuck them with a rusty hot poker, maybe MS can drag them into being less shitty and not sitting on their fucking IP hoarde like a jealous dragon.
It's possible to likely that MS owning them will literally kill them, and they'll melt away, like so many other acquisitions seem to go, and then Microsoft will take a huge financial soaking and maybe be gunshy about huge mergers after and— Good! I like all of these outcomes, heh.
It's also possible that under MS stewardship, they'll make great games!
It's just, we haven't really seen that yet. It seems like studios brought into MS proper sorta, languish? They keep buying studios because their internal games keep not cutting the mustard. Not sure it's working, yet anyways.
@glassbottommeg I think the biggest sign of Microsoft being a good thing for ActiBlizz is if they fire Bobby Kotick. There's a lot that needs doing, and getting him out of there is a great start.
@glassbottommeg I'm not really sure Phil Spencer is the guy to get Activision into shape.
The Xbox publishing arm feels absolutely directionless. On paper they've got all these great studios, who get the time and budget others can only dream of.
But in the end, they still underdeliver.
Whatever it is they're doing (or not doing), it isn't working.
@glassbottommeg MS is weird, you look at a lot of what they do and they seem like uncaring stewards of their IP, but on the other hand see what they've done with Age of Empires where they've really nurtured and stuck with every game on the series and grown an audience despite the initial launch conditions.
I don't want a giant monolith, but I guess if we have to have one... maybe this one is the better of a lot of bad ways to get there. And maybe just maybe this'll result in righting a pretty bad wrong.
@glassbottommeg I suppose that if you are hoping that the merger kills them, Microsoft is a rather bad bet compared to other companies. I guess I'd wish Google acquired them!
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