Microsoft now Owns All of ActivisionBlizzard, The Deal is finished Worldwide.

[Bitterman]

Main page news since the old thread was Locked due to inactivity

Microsoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition, Call of Duty now part of Xbox

The deal has closed after 20 months of legal battles.

www.theverge.com

And here is the video

Lets see what comes next at blizzcon.

 

[deepstrasz]

I guess we can expect spinoffs, crossovers and general multiplayer material for Xbox.

 

[Retera]

Maybe the video we should be actually watching is this one:

 

[deepstrasz]

Maybe the video we should be actually watching is this one:

Age of Empires is on Steam. I guess Warcraft III's fate will end up there or maybe not, since the companies under Microsoft will be named Blizzard still so maybe the B.net app will stay.

 

[Bitterman]

Age of Empires is on Steam. I guess Warcraft III's fate will end up there or maybe not, since the companies under Microsoft will be named Blizzard still so maybe the B.net app will stay.

It is obvious that it will end there and at xbox store, the question is if there will be workshop integration or not.

 

[deepstrasz]

workshop integration

What's that?

 

[tillinghast]

if there will be workshop integration or not.

lmao

 

[Retera]

Maybe there will be Hive Workshop integration into the Warcraft 3 game. That would be a Workshop integration

 

[Ghan_04]

I don't like seeing such huge consolidation in the gaming industry, but in this case, Activision was such a soulless corporate entity (led by Bobby Kotick, who couldn't give two shits about video games) that this might actually be an improvement. Microsoft has (so far) shown itself to be willing to actually invest in a wide variety of game genres, even if not every game it makes is going to be a massive blockbuster of a money maker.

We'll see what happens.

 

[PurrsandMlems]

you are about to place a barracks, a confirmation prompt appears: are you sure ? y/n
while playing your town hall randomly begins upgrading by itself because forced updates.
you must activate your ability windows, or can only use hotkeys.

 

[deepstrasz]

Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

The cuts primarily affect Activision Blizzard employees.

www.theverge.com

courtesy of a HIVE member

 

[Retera]

oh good, as if Warcraft wasn't dead enough already, Microsoft needed to get rid of the rest of anyone who ever knew whatever was going on

I guess it's probably part of their strategy to have ChatGPT do all the work in the future. why pay a human to make warcraft products when chatgpt can do it

I asked Bing Chat what to do with Warcraft franchise if we imagined I work at Microsoft, and it said to bring WoW to mobile, sell more content like expansions, add microtransactions, and add more premium subscription services.

That's Microsoft's wondrous AI technology at work.

 

[deepstrasz]

I asked Bing Chat what to do with Warcraft franchise if we imagined I work at Microsoft, and it said to bring WoW to mobile, sell more content like expansions, add microtransactions, and more premium subscription services.

That's Microsoft's wondrous AI technology at work.

Even the AI thinks like a greedy goblin. No wonder what type of people are behind its development.

 

[Retera]

No wonder what type of people are behind its development.

Well, you see, greedisgood 999999

 

[deepstrasz]

Well, you see, greedisgood 999999

Good thing that after some digits it gets to 0, meaning there's a limit or an end if you will.