Comment on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets preliminary approval from UK regulator

• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why? As in, why are they “the last hope”? What can they do that ActiBlizzKing cannot?

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  • theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What can they do that ActiBlizzKing cannot?

    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.

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    • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      … that game came out 13 years ago and was supported with expansions for 6 years

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      • theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And AoE2 cam out 24 years ago and is supported with expansions to this day.

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  • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    StarCraft 3 and warcraft 4 hopefully.

    Maybe a non shit diablo game.

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    • Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why would they do that? CoD is a better investment. This is MS. Not some fan boy.

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      • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They need more games for their pass.

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    • 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.

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      • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Since when was that a thing that Blizzard does?

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    • 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?

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