There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Blapoo ,

I was done with Activision BEFORE Microsoft came along.

Not with a 100 foot pole. Get fukt Activision

spiderkle ,
@spiderkle@lemmy.ca avatar

The logical question here is: will COD be in gamepass? otherwise what’s the point of this takeover.

Maalus ,

Starcraft 3 is the point

ryathal ,

Those devs already left. At best it would be a hollow shell of a game like aoe 4.

Maalus ,

There are some games made by SC devs or SC players, we’ll see how it turns out. I would like to see SC3 with full financial support of a AAA studio.

ryathal ,

Aoe 4 wasn’t great and that was AAA support. The people that made SC great are gone, most are at frostgiant, Dreamhaven, Warchief, and more.

Maalus ,

Yeah okay, let me want what I want instead of trying to convince me not to

ryathal ,

playstormgate.com

Maalus ,

Ffs buddy, learn to let it go. I mentioned the two games in my previous comments already. Then I mentioned I would like an actual Starcraft 3 from Blizzard. You don’t need to point me at anything, just accept someone else wishing for something and move on.

kemsat ,

Nah nah, StarCraft: Ghost is coming back. It’s just a matter of using the Gears of War engine & adding in StarCraft textures & models & SFX.

RedAggroBest ,

I’d rather it look and feel like Halo

Bonskreeskreeskree ,

I’m sure black ops 1-4 will definitely be a part of it!

UkaszGra ,

Candy Crash instead of blue screens.

Kushan ,
@Kushan@lemmy.world avatar

You can bet your sweet ass CoD will be part of it. Possibly not MW3 but the next game will be a big day 1 game pass launch, guaranteed.

FireTower ,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe they’ll make warzone no longer free to play but instead included in game pass as a means of recruiting more members.

bob_lemon ,

Sad times for everyone that still believed in antitrust.

probablyaCat ,

Meh. A competitive monopoly has a better outcome than the near monopoly PS4 got when it came to exclusives. Yeah a lot of existing IP will be for one or the other. But for third party studios, they will be much less likely to make exclusive games if the console market is more balanced between the two. Nintendo is kind of in a world of its own. And with the steam deck helping push PC into a base level standard, I think we might see some opening up of high quality third party stuff.

Bonskreeskreeskree ,

You still believed?

Dark_Arc ,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

Honestly I’m okay with this one, but it’s mostly because Activision Blizzard has great IP with some seriously awful management … and Microsoft actually has been doing much better in that department for games.

demonquark ,

Yeah… In practice, every time a company gets anything that even slightly resembles a captured market, they stop investing in quality and starting shafting consumers.

Make no mistake, that is Microsoft’s end game. And that’s why they’re buying Blizzard.

leftzero ,

Luckily, Activision Blizzard already stopped investing in quality and started shafting customers quite a while back, so worst case scenario (in this particular case, your criticism is still valid for most others) nothing changes, best case scenario Microsoft actually cleans house and the market becomes slightly less anti-consumer with one of the worst offenders gone…

Dark_Arc ,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

Yupp…

Dark_Arc ,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

Microsoft even with Activision Blizzard would not have a captured market. Valve, Crytek, Sony (which now holds Bungie), Epic, Electronic Arts, CD Projekt Red, Take-Two, and Ubisoft are all still quite potent AAA capable studio just in the PC space … along with tons of independent studios (e.g., Ghost Ship Games, Shiro Games, Hello Games, Re-Logic).

The Microsoft internal doc leak said they’re mostly after King Games (mobile games) anyways. I’d wager at worst Microsoft will let the traditionally Activision & Blizzard studios do their things… at best they’ll clean up the executive teams and let the devs “play” a bit more with the IPs.

Mojang has flourished under Microsoft.

TheDarkKnight ,

343 sucked under MS. Bethesda’s been underwhelming. Rare, meh. Lionhead, meh. Obsidian, meh.

Playground has been good, same with Doublefine. Ninja had Senua, which was good.

Pretty much a coin flip I’d say, but helped by the fact Blizzard has stunk out loud in recent years…change might be good.

Tlaloc_Temporal ,

The enshitification of Mojang has begun. Ridiculous privacy policies and bans in singleplayer. And the biggest introduction under MS was the engine rewrite, which was already underway when they were acquired.

Twohandedman ,

deleted_by_author

    •
    Dark_Arc ,
    @Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

    I mean, it’s had plenty of success with its own IP… Heard of Starfield? Minecraft … and it’s nth successful Spinoff? Forza Horizon 5? Sea of Thieves? Flight Simulator 40th Anniversary Edition? Age of Empires IV? Age of Empires XYZ DE? Fallout 76?

    The only major “flop” I can think of that wasn’t corrected (at least so far) is Halo Infinite and … that largely seems to be a 343 issue. There’s also Redfall, but that was a new IP in an over saturated space … it’s not like they’ve stopped developing IPs, fixing games, and trying new things.

    Twohandedman ,

    deleted_by_author

    •
    Dark_Arc ,
    @Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

    Go look at Fallout 76’s reviews, it was unpopular at launch (IIRC) but it’s doing very well now … and that’s the point, they kept the lights on until the majority of players were happy.

    Minecraft has had several games derived from it, that were entirely different games set in the Minecraft universe.

    Microsoft bought Bethesda 3 years ago. To say that they had no ability to influence and/or didn’t take a risk on Starfield is … lazy at best.

    And yes, they own Redfall as well, time will tell if they fix that one or it’s just a straight up failure.

    slaacaa ,

    Unapproved language detected, account locked. Drink verification can!

    Pohl ,

    Trust = one or more independent organizations making secret agreements to mutual benefit.

    Mergers: not a trust.

    Monopoly = a single organization that controls an overwhelming amount of the market.

    Microsoft buying a publisher that put out 2 games in 2023: not a monopoly.

    ILikeBoobies ,

    How many times do they have to buy that 2 game publisher before they reach a monopoly?

    Phen ,

    How many of the last 10 games you bought were from Microsoft?

    Pohl ,

    How many games game out this year? Thousands. There is absolutely zero possibility that MS or anyone else is anywhere near holding monopoly status on the production of entertainment software. Even if they bought EVERYTHING new creators would enter the space the very next day.

    Kit ,

    Will we finally see WoW on consoles?

    EpicMuellsTime ,

    It would be a dream but I doubt it. Too many macros required that only a keyboard can handle. Controller wouldn’t be able to do all that.

    maniclucky ,

    I mean, FFXIV has just as much and manages it.

    Kit ,

    Going back even further, FFXI (which came out before WoW) has perfect controller support. It’s not that difficult to make an MMO work on a controller.

    echoplex21 ,

    There is KB/M support on Xbox so it could be possible

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •