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Bread’s Game Journal 01/18/21: Microsoft Is Buying Activision-Blizzard And I Am Very Happy.
To come out in front of this, let me just say, yes Monopolies are bad for any creative industry in which they’re present. That said, I not only have no qualms with Microsoft buying Activision-Blizzard for near 70 billion dollars, I am in fact completely ecstatic that it’s happened. Let’s not beat around the bush here, Activision-Blizzard has had a rough year, or so, in the news. Widespread abuse revelations, constant delays, Booby Kotick in general, it was pretty much one long downhill slope. Now though? Now I have some hope, and let me explain why.
Activision in general holds, arguably, about 80% of the IP’s that are important to me as someone who loves video games. A few years ago they actually started doing something with some of the bigger ones they held. Crash and Spyro got fantastic remakes, Crash got a new game, even Tony Hawk came back for a brief, but fantastic remake of the first two games. Then none of those games made a billion dollars, and Activision threw them all in the hottest pile of trash you’ve ever seen without a second thought.
Activision is one of the most brutally stupid companies to ever exist. They’re so obsessed with sure thing bets, that they’ve taken almost every studio they own, all of whom have shown great talent in the past, and place them all on one franchise, instead of growing any kind of diversity of output. But now, we might actually be free. You know what company of late has shown a fantastic willingness to use their IP to explore new and different genres? Microsoft. You know what company wants and needs smaller budget content that doesn’t necessarily need to make a trillion dollars? Microsoft. And they’re the ones who bought Activision! You see where I’m going with this?!
None of this is even to mention the possibilities laid now in front of existing games. Could you imagine some kind of World of Warcraft subscription being added to PC Gamepass? It wouldn’t just save some of us a lot of money, but could cause a large new base of people to discover the game! Overwatch could see an influx of players. Even just adding the back catalog of games from the Activision-Blizzard lineup could drive Game Pass numbers for a long time. Imagine a day when Call of Duty games, which are notorious for stubbornly keeping their full price even years after they’re irrelevant, are all added to Game Pass for players to easily access whenever they wanted.
Again, I know it’s isn’t super thrilling to see the makings of a monopoly form, but you know what? Right now I truly don’t care. For me, this is indisputable good news. I truly cannot wait for this deal to go all the way through, and to finally feel excited about the future of these IP again. Because boy, do I gotta say, I’m sick as hell of just sort of shrugging and thinking “Well, at lest WoW still makes enough money for them to keep making more of it.”.
*Hyperventilating*
Just read it.
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