"And this isn't just about employees. Our journey of inclusion extends to creating a welcoming and safe community for all our customers...""We are committed to protecting players"I'm not sure anyone at Microsoft Gaming has spent any time in our trade chat channel. I predict the Ban Hammer will be deployed liberally.
Interesting. Personally, I'm a bit of a Microsoft fanboy (non-gaming wise though), so my initial reaction to this was surprisingly positive. The games under Microsoft's hood are generally speaking also in great shape. Many independent gamestudios working under Microsoft appear to be able to keep their authority as well, Microsoft isn't milking them out through MTX's or the likes.The only thing I'm worried about is Microsoft's long term agenda... but I'd say that this is at least better than keeping just Bobby behind the wheel. Bobby now has an important passenger to take care of; a passenger who's hopefully going to try to keep Bobby's eyes on the road this time. (But as long as Bobby stays behind the wheel, I'll remain concerned.)
On one hand, if it'll get Bobby Kotick out, that's great news...but I can already feel it in my bones that Microsoft is gonna make some of Activision's games into Xbox Exclusives... They did it with Rareware, they'll do it again for Crash Bandicoot and Spyro.
i dont get why ppl is crying about this will be the end of WoW, actually Microsoft probabbly will be serious about a good culture so probabbly will be a clean up, and after that they will boost gaming dev to pull better stuff, look Bethesda and the game they been working under Microsoft hell look games like Fallen Order.Microsft is been building this great "metaverse" to compete with first party Sony games.This is what probabbly will save ActivitionBlizzard from the terrible direction they been going this past couple of years.
well this isn't good
so how long before we have a clippy battle pet?
Have a bad feeling that tokens for game time will go bye bye and maybe even wow itself with this.They will come in and try things to make more money for themselves and get rid of games they dont deem making enough.Will wait and see but nervous about microsoft being involved with any of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKx3JlTnHbc
This just feels...odd. Like we still haven't even seen how M$ last big studio acquisition has played out yet. So you have to get the deal approved (I don't see it not going through, but the odd hiccup likes to arrive when no one is looking on mergers/ buyouts) and then the game plan is for Activision Blizzard to stay autonomous until July 1, 2023. That's just doubtful for things like WoW (I could see it being mostly true for CoD and the King set of games though). But things like D2 Resurrected, Hearthstone and WoW you'd think they'd want some say in it right away (or right after they did a thorough look at it). Because how those are handled will greatly impact the future of those franchises, and not having a hand in them for 15 months seems kinda dumb. So maybe just moves behind the scenes for those 3. But I don't see D4 or Overwatch 2 being released before that date under almost any circumstance now. Unless you allow a ton of meddling (which would likely leak out) or think everything looks good on both (doubtful, not to mention Blizzard has cancelled/ restarted projects due to their own not liking how things were going).
THE TWILIGHT HOUR HAS ARRIVED!It is the end, I tell you. When this transaction completes, the Void Lords succeed in completely consume all existence.
Very happy to hear this! Can't be any worse than it has been. Let's see some other people involved with WoW hit the pavement next..
MS waited for the stock to tank from the "issues" and pounced. We will see where this may lead.... could be good, could be a disaster for Blizzard games especially WoW.
Just in time for v10.0. Maybe like I said they should just dump WoW and redesign it from scratch now, WoW the 2nd. They say pretty words like bigger production teams and more money spent but if that's all it took then why are so many other MMOs such failures compared to WoW has been up to now. I know they will say the same team will continue to work on WoW but realistically, it hasn't been "the same team" for a while and Microsoft will now add their own Overlords of production and it WILL change.I fear this will be the final nail in the coffin for WoW, at least as it is. I hope not, but I'm pretty sure it's inevitable.
Maybe NOW they will start listening to fans