Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard Discussion Thread (Part 1)

[Mort]

@Jerm411

That Politico article is a real humdinger…esp. the part highlighting the sub. services…

It’s ridiculous and makes me roll my eyes…NONE of these games were coming to GP, PS Extra, or any other sub service day 1 (or maybe ever for that matter) outside of a deal like this…

It’s nonsense…a lot of “well what if we wanted to” damn well knowing it would never happen.

If that’s the case, I damn well expect Destiny 2 and everything with it to be on GP again…oh wait…

Expecting Marvel shows back on Netflix any day now.

[hexbacon]

@Daniel

Fun fact which isn’t supposed to predict any date or anything but it took the EU 130 days to start their investigation of MS + Zenimax. It has currently been 184 days since MS announced the ABK deal. Again not trying to say anything just a fun thing.

Checking at all other transactions, it appears EU opens their probe around 3-7 months from the announcement. Maybe we seen them at the end of this month or mid August . Anyways it’s a fun speculation!!!

[Gateaudukaos]

@Jorge_Alexander_Acos

Ok thanks!

Hope we hear from them something as quickly as the Zenimax acquisition. And there will be only China left. It seems Brazil is also reviewing the deal.

If China do something.

Maybe that allready a close case for them. It’s very hard for us to see what’s really going on.

And don’t Forget the British commission too, they are not in europe anymore.

[Don-Vito]

Activison stock upgraded on 'increasingly compelling' merger-arbitrage...

[AllianceOfficer]

@Gateaudukaos

If China do something.

Maybe that allready a close case for them. It’s very hard for us to see what’s really going on.

And don’t Forget the British commission too, they are not in europe anymore.

Is anyone left to run it in Britain or did they step down /s

[hexbacon]

We should hear something tomorrow during the financial report (hopefully).

[Gateaudukaos]

@hexbacon

We should hear something tomorrow during the financial report (hopefully).

No we didn’t ^^

[hexbacon]

@Gateaudukaos

No we didn’t ^^

Well, I did say hopefully so………

[Boosted_Gear]

@hexbacon

Well, I did say hopefully so………

It is still possible they might talk about it since it is the end of their fiscal year, and there is always documents emering from the annual call in August.

[hexbacon]

@Boosted_Gear

It is still possible they might talk about it since it is the end of their fiscal year, and there is always documents emering from the annual call in August.

At this point, I’ll assume they’ll say anything just if things are going to get bad.

[AllianceOfficer]

Does anyone have any thoughts in terms of what we will see with the Activision published games and if they will make their way to gamepass? Im thinking about all the 007 games and Transformers games they published.

[pg2g]

@AllianceOfficer

Does anyone have any thoughts in terms of what we will see with the Activision published games and if they will make their way to gamepass? Im thinking about all the 007 games and Transformers games they published.

I am thinking licensed games come with some additional complications, but no idea

[hexbacon]

@pg2g

I am thinking licensed games come with some additional complications, but no idea

Agree 100%. I think stuff Activision complete owns will show up in the first week after the completion of the acquisition. Other stuff might come back later while the team work on licensing issues.

Funny enough I think Activision has some publishing right for some iD software games. That will be interesting !!

[Cairnst]

@AllianceOfficer

Does anyone have any thoughts in terms of what we will see with the Activision published games and if they will make their way to gamepass? Im thinking about all the 007 games and Transformers games they published.

I’m not sure about all that but if there’s anything they should be doing with the licensed games it’s putting out a remaster of Simpsons Hit and Run.

[Jorge_Alexander_Acos]

Will be interesting to see if they will do something with all those licensed games, it could probably increase ABK catalogue to the hundreds.

[AllianceOfficer]

@Jorge_Alexander_Acos

Will be interesting to see if they will do something with all those licensed games, it could probably increase ABK catalogue to the hundreds.

Yeah for sure, they have tons of licensed games.

[DARK-PARADISE]

@Jorge_Alexander_Acos

Will be interesting to see if they will do something with all those licensed games, it could probably increase ABK catalogue to the hundreds.

Singularity on BC enhanced and FPS boosted please

[TheBrightestSun]

@AllianceOfficer

Yeah for sure, they have tons of licensed games.

I don’t think a lot of licensed games will return (if any). Licensing is the annoying issue.

[Jorge_Alexander_Acos]

@TheBrightestSun

I don’t think a lot of licensed games will return (if any). Licensing is the annoying issue.

How does these things works? Like, couldn they just, lets say, talk with hasbro and convince them to let them put the transformers game on the platform? In that specific case MS would have the parent studio under its umbrella, they would just need to talk with hasbro.

[TheBrightestSun]

@Jorge_Alexander_Acos

How does these things works? Like, couldn they just, lets say, talk with hasbro and convince them to let them put the transformers game on the platform? In that specific case MS would have the parent studio under its umbrella, they would just need to talk with hasbro.

It also requires music licensing and so on. It is one of the problems with older games.