Comment on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets preliminary approval from UK regulator
slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 year agoHope it doesn’t. MS has a history of anticonsumer practices that goes all the way back to the 90s.
No matter what they say to the regulator MS will stop releasing any ABK existing IP onto Sony and Nintendo consoles.
Even though it will not directly effect me as a PC gamer it is still a bad thing for the industry as a whole.
theKalash@feddit.ch 1 year ago
MS is one of the last hope to safe some of the classic Blizzard titles as the state of Activision Blizzard as it is simply can’t get any worse.
Carighan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why? As in, why are they “the last hope”? What can they do that ActiBlizzKing cannot?
theKalash@feddit.ch 1 year ago
Literally anything.
There is currently a handful of devs doing the occational balance patch for SC2 otherwise the game is complelty dead from the developer side. On the MS side, AoE2 and other even older games are doing so much better.
echo64@lemmy.world 1 year ago
… that game came out 13 years ago and was supported with expansions for 6 years
Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 year ago
StarCraft 3 and warcraft 4 hopefully.
Maybe a non shit diablo game.
Neato@kbin.social 1 year ago
Why would they do that? CoD is a better investment. This is MS. Not some fan boy.
Carighan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They would just contract Blizzard to make that, so if they were able to do it they would have done so already.
CynicRaven@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I haven’t played it but I have read that Diablo 4 has been mostly well received. I guess there’s been a fiasco about one of the updates to it, but that’s not something unique to Blizzard and theoretically could be fixed in another update, no?