Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets preliminary approval from UK regulator

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Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets preliminary approval from UK regulator - Lemmy.world

That’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.
Why? As in, why are they “the last hope”? What can they do that ActiBlizzKing cannot?

StarCraft 3 and warcraft 4 hopefully.

Maybe a non shit diablo game.

Why would they do that? CoD is a better investment. This is MS. Not some fan boy.
They need more games for their pass.
But do they need the games to be good? Activions sucks balls, but why would microsoft make the games good again and remove all the shit with microtransactions etc.?
If the games are good and non-exploitative it would in theory drive up Game Pass subscriptions.