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

• 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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      • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And SS1 came out 29 years ago and just got a remaster. This isn’t a years-pissing context. Starcraft II was supported way long, and extensively. And like all good games, eventually the vast vast majority of players have moved on, and then the devs might move on, too.

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      • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Isn't the expansion content between SCII's expansions and AoE2's expansions significantly different?

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Comparing one thing to an exception is dumb in the best of times

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      • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The original AoE or the rereleases? Because i had to pay for the definite edition.

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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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      • tryptaminev@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But do they need the games to be good? Activions sucks balls, but why would microsoft make the games good again and remove all the shit with microtransactions etc.?

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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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