Eurogamer: It's been 12 months since Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard, so what's changed?
Eurogamer: It's been 12 months since Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard, so what's changed?
It has been one year since Microsoft finally acquired Activision Blizzard for $68.7bn, making history as the biggest company buyout in the video games industry
--BTW this article looks like an ad for Jason Schreier's new book about this topic, that releases soon and is mentioned as the last sentence in the article with a single link that spans across 4 lines.--
Nothing much. Microsoft put out one of the worst Call of Duty games in history (Modern Warfare 3 in 2023) and couldn't save Overwatch 2 from being totally ruined. Console sales and Game Pass didn't grow as expected I guess. And then the layoffs... Funny enough the releases on PC and Playstation (by Xbox) doing well. At the moment its a total disaster and we question if Xbox will survive until next gen (off course it will, there is Microsoft behind it). Once again Xbox players are told to wait until next year; basically since the launch of the recent console.
(Note, I don't hate Xbox and even own the Series S as a backup console if my PC explodes or a game I want to play doesn't work on Linux. I hate Playstation probably even more for what Sony is doing. Just mentioning this as a context, because I'm so negative in this post towards Xbox, but more specifically Microsoft.)
21Idk if I'd really consider it an ad for the book tbh. If anything it's an ad for another Eurogamer article, which is an interview they did with Jason. It's pretty common for sites like this to link to articles that have similar topics to keep you reading
7--BTW this article looks like an ad for Jason Schreier's new book about this topic, that releases soon and is mentioned as the last sentence in the article with a single link that spans across 4 lines.--
He's had a few other articles written, but given the detail and research, I think he can be forgiven. It's not like he's trying to sell something that doesn't live up to what the book is about.
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Is one year really that long considering the dev cycles of big video games?
15Heroes of the storm has been getting some updates instead of just being dead. I'm a happy camper 🥲
13The most surprising thing I read on this thread
6big shoutout HOTS... i should tap back in... FUCK deadlock (note: this user has not played deadlock)
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Everything that Sony claimed turned out to be true. Games are now exclusive to Xbox, they run worse on PS5, Xbox would get exclusive Call of Duty content and early betas and Xbox is using its market dominance by putting all ABK titles on GamePass.
Oh wait.
12microshit is trying to big tech gaming market... yeah gamers have some idiotic habits.... like pre-ordered but overall this is a higher level customer than you modal "google search user"
at some point, corpos gonna need to learn that the wage slaves have had a enough, good will has been lost... earn it bitch!
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