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I look at it as an investor and it is a failure.
The video game industry has a complete lack of maturity, which creates chances.
This is not a chance.
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I look at it as an investor and it is a failure.
The video game industry has a complete lack of maturity, which creates chances.
This is not a chance.
Palum
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I'm inclined to agree and believe it is too little too late to buy at not a discount price. Had MS bought it say 8 years ago maybe salvage more.
Chris
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You guys are acting like Blizzard is a financial failure when it's just a critical failure. It makes a lot of money.
Don't underestimate the shit normies will buy like FIFA and Call of Duty. Diablo being the watered down RPG could do just fine, hell most people here bought it and we got what we deserved.
Don't underestimate the shit normies will buy like FIFA and Call of Duty. Diablo being the watered down RPG could do just fine, hell most people here bought it and we got what we deserved.
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Palum
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It's all relative. They failed to develop a lot of their IPs constantly over the last decade.
I think they can make the money back, just like Disney with Star Wars. But it isn't judged by if it hit the black eventually, it's judged based on its potential value and how well that is realized.
Ambiturner
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Several of you were even all in on bashing it and Blizzard, yet still broke down and bought it.
Blizzard being shit and Microsoft getting a W aren't mutually exclusive
Mr Creed
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I don't think they are buying it for the Blizzard portfolio at all.
Either way though, if it gets that studio disbanded, it's a great side benefit.
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TJT
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Brahma
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For the year ended December 31, 2022, Activision Blizzard's net revenues presented in accordance with GAAP were $7.53 billion.
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GuardianX
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Okay, don't do that...
Post the financial breakdown of that where Activision / King side of that is like 2/3rds the total.
I'm not saying pulling 2 billion rev is bad, but they aren't the REASON why MS is buying them if you follow what I'm sayin.
Brahma
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Nope. I didn't even REMOTELY say that. But don't say they don't want the Blizzard portfolio. That makes no sense.
GuardianX
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Oh ya, I agree 100% there. It's a smart package.
The rest of what you said I'll chalk up to me misunderstanding due to being a few beers into the night.
Mr Creed
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That doesn't change the fact that Blizzard is the small, retarded sibling of Activision Blizzard.
Ukerric
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I see what you did there.gif
(For those who don't remember, Microsoft bought Nokia in 2013, before selling it back in 2016)
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Sad thing is it used to be a giant with nothing but even bigger future. All fucking squandered by no talent ass clowns. Blizzard was nothing but a name of quality great games for decades, again all squandered.
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Ambiturner
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As for the math fuckup what's the actual change? Were they supposed to use 100 instead of 1000 and it actually went from 140% to 144%? Or was 40% really only giving 4% the whole time?
Zindan
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The only fuck up was the presentation of the formula, as I am sure that Raxx guy and his forced/fake laughter knew.
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Daidraco
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Back when we were messing around with it in release season, I couldnt see a big difference in resists on gear. Having Poison resists on your gear didnt seem to really decrease how fast a poison pool would kick your ass. The next one was Paragon, and if you strip off all your Paragon resistances - poison puddle would almost one tap you at any reasonable NM level, with or without gear. Strong Elixir of Poison Resistance is 25% iirc, and without paragon resistances, and that on - it was a subtle improvement but not much.
Point is, its all fucked up. They may be calculated on the paragon pages correctly, but only additive 2.5% for a 25% elixir and probably the armor. Hell, I personally thought the armor shit wasnt being added to the calculation at all. If so, it was an additive addition of 0.25% for 25% resistance. Or, in some really fucked up dumb ass way - they were using additive values - but the max ceiling for resistances was 1000% instead of 100% with calculations.
Point is, its all fucked up. They may be calculated on the paragon pages correctly, but only additive 2.5% for a 25% elixir and probably the armor. Hell, I personally thought the armor shit wasnt being added to the calculation at all. If so, it was an additive addition of 0.25% for 25% resistance. Or, in some really fucked up dumb ass way - they were using additive values - but the max ceiling for resistances was 1000% instead of 100% with calculations.
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