I guess I'm just trying not to be complacent about an industry moving in that direction, since it's a bad direction.But I’m not getting less choice, there’s just a different person signing the cheques now. Call of Duty is still coming anyway.
And it’s not like it’s any different in movies or music either after all. This is what happens with big industries over time
I'm sure Sony does, but the Gaming division itself I doubt has that kind of cash to toss around
Yeah I was just thinking that maybe MS could be a force to bring back from creativity to Activision; they got many cool dormant IPs that havent been touched in ages...
Not even Sony as a whole does, Microsoft is in a completely different ballpark.
Have the Gears Tactics devs make Overwatch Tactics
Sega (genuinely shocked this hasn’t happened yet)
Probably because of gambling? Ins't Sega Sammy big into pachinko stuff with Sega Games IPs?
"Playstation gamers will continue getting guitar hero releases."
Perhaps. But Microsoft has proven several times already what a shitty and anti-consumer company they can be when they have a very successful product. If/when that happens again, people will realize how many popular and long running franchises and studios this will affect.
Fallout 4 quests wre okay, but Witcher's weren't great either. I gave TW3 a good 85.5 hours which I never made it to the DLC and really the only mission I remember is the Baron one. Rest of them were mostly generic point a to b using batman vision.
Yeah, given how well Sea of Thieves is doing i don't think we'll see Banjo for a few years yet. This ActiBlizz/MS deal won't be done for another 18 months so i don't expect any big visible changes until then at least.
Or the other way around, Banjo by Toys for Bob. Probably not, but at least hopefully Toys for Bob will be freed from CoD.
I've never touched Call of Duty, and have played very few other Activision games, probably about five total in the past eight years or so where I've been independent and in control of my own money. I don't have much interest in their games coming to Gamepass or otherwise being available to me, besides Crash Bandicoot I suppose.
I mean you joke, but I still wonder what will happen in 5-15 years time when Gabe retires. Especially if he fails to achieve his brain computer interface stuff and upload his brain to the Steam servers.
lmao this would be most gaben thing to do
As I understand, it doesn't matter, trade was halted at $90 a share, and will be sold at $95 a share to MS anyway(pretty much the same value before the pr shitshow started).
and after some sappy pep talk emil, master chief and crash will teleport to the Core of the MetaVerse to fight an evil CEO and his goons and give everything back to where it belongs, in the hands of the true fans
No, stocks are still getting traded, see https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ATVI/.
From what I've heard a lot of Valve employees have shares in Valve, especially long time employees. I wouldn't be surprised if Gabe is the majority shareholder though.
is this the plot of ready player two
look at how long it took them to start merging Minceraft launcher
MS can't handle 1 launcher (Xbox App), letting them handling all 3 of those trash launchers will not work out for them.
I'm guessing most likely it'll be a long term transition, I'm guessing they'll start with releasing new games without needing those launchers (at least Starfield doesn't say that it needs the Bethesda launcher on the Steam store page? Though it may be too early to be sure), but no idea what they'll do or if they'll do anything about already released games.
