Blizzard dies and Bobby rides
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OU Ariakas
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Ok, so MS takes over AV/B... does this make WoW better or worse? Separate question, does this make Blizzard better or worse? Also, doesn't MS kill off studios once they are integrated (here's looking at you Bungie)? So in 2 years it's going to be Microsoft presents World Of Warcraft?
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Burns
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There is little MS could do to make WoW any worse for players.
Their current business model (suits) seems to be hands off (kinda). They bought InXile before Wasteland 3, and the game didn't seem to suffer for it. Around the same time they purchased Obsidian, while Outer Worlds was in development; I didn't much care for that game, but it also got high marks.
They also bought ZenMax (Bethesda) recently, so their next releases will give more insight into how they are are going to operate.
It is always possible that they clean Activision's house. There is at least hope that they will shake up the whole system, due to current performance being so far away from past performance, in Blizzard's case.
Their current business model (suits) seems to be hands off (kinda). They bought InXile before Wasteland 3, and the game didn't seem to suffer for it. Around the same time they purchased Obsidian, while Outer Worlds was in development; I didn't much care for that game, but it also got high marks.
They also bought ZenMax (Bethesda) recently, so their next releases will give more insight into how they are are going to operate.
It is always possible that they clean Activision's house. There is at least hope that they will shake up the whole system, due to current performance being so far away from past performance, in Blizzard's case.
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Fadaar
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Never heard of Culvers either. Sounds pretty much select locations (yellow? Blue appears to be stav hall, which ive never heard of either). Just makes me curious what is in Virginia that you guys havent heard about cause everything that comes to mind is world wide.
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map isnt totally accurate cause I know theres locations in Tampa and Savannah
edit: well derp, map says 2013. the one near me in Sav is only like 2 yrs old.
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That would actually be fucking brilliant and would breathe new life into the game. Hell I'd maybe even log in every now and then if that was the case. Unsubbed early last year after how bad Shadowlands was and haven't even had the slightest itch to come back.
Bungie is doing just fine on their own
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Activision was already in the same stage of corporate vulture feeding that Msoft would bring, this is just a consolidation move probably brought on by the need to get rid of Kotick
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I think you have misidentified Activision's major issues. They are a company that is essentially living off one revenue stream and, like almost every other giant corporation, they have failed to make additional long term revenue streams. You can say that it is Kotick's fault that they failed to do this; however, AVB gives a ton of autonomy to the studios and it seems like THAT was the major culprit here since it is the individual studios that are circling the drain of mediocrity into total dogshit. Don't forget that Microsoft would be in the same boat if it weren't for their Office product and it alone. The business adoption of that suite is and MS realizing that they could monetize it as a revenue stream, and then realize they could use it as a springboard into forcing customers to use their cloud is the only reason that MS isn't in the dust with Google ruling the business productivity market.
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We look at ABK from the perspective of Blizzard, but MSFT doesn't. They bought them for King's money printing racket and CoD:Warzone. The blizz stuff was just icing on the cake, especially since the pending litigation drove the price down.
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