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Im totally in support of stopping monopolies but idk guys, Blizzard sucks so much now I kinda want to see MSFT fix it lol

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I understand the feeling but I'm not sure Microsoft would actually fix anything. Microsoft hasn't fixed any of the problems that Bethesda had pre-acquisition. Nothing has improved for employees; the only difference is that their games aren't released on Sony platforms anymore.

Well, it couldn't be worse with Kotick out of the picture. At least Microsoft would let devs unionize

Yeah after seeing how Mick Gordon's case was handled, even after Microsoft's acquisitions, I don't see anything changing with Activision either.

Just wait when the price for "fixing" it will be having all their titles either Xbox/Windows only, or more expensive and/or with lesser features, addons, DLC, updates etc. on other platforms. Monopolies suck, always and everywhere, no matter what apparent improvement they seem to bring at first.

Xbox seems to do just fine getting people to buy Game Pass over offering games at full price. That changes the status quo of how games are bought and consumed enough that they really don't have to change the prior model of $70 entry fee + DLC that Sony is still using to entice anyone to switch who doesn't really want to play Sony exclusives.

Yes - Sony are the ones to hold on to exclusives right now. Not Microsoft.

exclusivity is the only thing i fear from this. that said, id probably give blizzard another shot down the road if they were bought by MS. the rest of the things you listed being a problem are already rampant through BlizzActivision and have turned a lot of people off to their games.

Idk, I look at how Microsoft handled the Bubgie -> 343 transition, and how they let that get away from them, and I'm skeptical they have what it takes to turn around a studio that has management issues.

Microsoft managed to ruin Nokia, so there's not much of a guarantee that things would go well.

Nokia was not doing so hot before Microsoft bought them.

Unless you're talking about their Windows Phone exclusivity deal before that which kneecapped them when they could have been making Android devices all those years and might have been competition in the Android space to this day.

> Nokia was not doing so hot before Microsoft bought them.

The argument was that Blizzard isn't doing so hot either, and that Microsoft would fix them.

Fair point haha

More likely this lower msft quality.

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