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Microsoft Plans to Close The Activision Blizzard Acquisition Next Week, Says Report

Microsoft Plans to Close The Activision Blizzard Acquisition Next Week, Says Report - Insider Gaming

A new report from has claimed that Microsoft is planning to close its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week.

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This is really bad news for the games industry that Microsoft is a monster.
- Microsoft still support AoE2 after all these years, while Activision more or less fucked the SC2 proscene so hard it's amazing it's still going as strong as it is.
  Not to mention what they did to the classic WotLK launch. It couldn't get any worse than that.
  
  What happened in the classic wotlk launch? I haven't played since the original wotlk so it's been awhile haha
- Microsoft isn't that bad compared to the rest of the industry.
  
  Overall I don’t agree with that, but I do agree they’re better than ActiBlizz. You’d have to blast down into bedrock to get lower than Bobby Kotick
  
  What do you mean. They own a monopolistic amount of studios. Adding more to that is only going to make things worse.
  https://www.gamesradar.com/xbox-game-studios-microsoft/
  
  Right now they aren't. You do know how bad they became with their last monopoly, right?
I am very intrigued to see how many games will immediately appear on Gamepass.
- Diablo 4 🤣
- Imo microsoft is trying to pump gamepass sub numbers and supposedly its not enough (despite the size). I think they will consider merging the World of Warcraft sub to gamepass to boost sub count for the investors.
Say goodbye to TES 6 on PlayStation.
- That's actually Bethesda's who also got bought by Microshit so altough what you're saying is true, it's not relevant to this aquisition.
  
  It's in the leaked MS future plans to make TES 6 exclusive if the deal goes through.
- I thought TES6 was already not going to be on PlayStation.

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