thehatfoxMicrosoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets preliminary approval from UK regulator
KalashThat’s great news, hope this goes through, soon.
Hope it doesn’t. MS has a history of anticonsumer practices that goes all the way back to the 90s.
No matter what they say to the regulator MS will stop releasing any ABK existing IP onto Sony and Nintendo consoles.
Even though it will not directly effect me as a PC gamer it is still a bad thing for the industry as a whole.
MS is one of the last hope to safe some of the classic Blizzard titles as the state of Activision Blizzard as it is simply can’t get any worse.
Carighan MaconarWhy? As in, why are they “the last hope”? What can they do that ActiBlizzKing cannot?
What can they do that ActiBlizzKing cannot?
Literally anything.
There is currently a handful of devs doing the occational balance patch for SC2 otherwise the game is complelty dead from the developer side. On the MS side, AoE2 and other even older games are doing so much better.
… that game came out 13 years ago and was supported with expansions for 6 years
And AoE2 cam out 24 years ago and is supported with expansions to this day.
And SS1 came out 29 years ago and just got a remaster. This isn’t a years-pissing context. Starcraft II was supported way long, and extensively. And like all good games, eventually the vast vast majority of players have moved on, and then the devs might move on, too.
The issue is not not players of dev, but the management that probably doesn’t think it’s profitable enough anymore. But Microsoft manages to keep AoE2 going with an even smaller playerbase than SC2.
So MS taking over an abandon francise I care about sounds pretty sweet to me.
just got a remaster
That was 6 years ago, btw.
tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺The original AoE or the rereleases? Because i had to pay for the definite edition.
Doesn’t matter. The option to pay for some more content is literally what I’m hopeing for.
yes it does matter. These are businesses. They make money by selling things. You cannot compare one rereleasing the same game with minimal changes for new money to keep supporting an existing game without charging new money.
It doesn’t to me. They can re-release the game with an updated engine or just add more content via DLCs and expansions, I’ll take either.
and thats fine, but doesnt make it possible to compare apples and oranges.
Isn't the expansion content between SCII's expansions and AoE2's expansions significantly different?
Not that much. Yes, AoE2 usually adds new factions, that won’t happen in StarCraft II. But introducing new units or reworking existing one is possible.
Adding singleplayer mission is pretty mich the same.
Also the Co-op mode of SC2 is quite popular and there is room to add a “new faction” there.
No they're VERY different from what I checked. I'm not sure how you could possibly say "not that much" to that!
Different how?
Comparing one thing to an exception is dumb in the best of times