Comment on CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."

Domille@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• just_change_it@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, i’m sure microsoft won’t do anything to increase monetization on their 69 billion dollar purchase. The objective is to make blizzard’s games better by minimizing highly profitable systems like microtransactions, battle passes, DLC season passes, xp boosters, in game real money stores.

  They wouldn’t be buying these properties to try and milk as much profit as possible at all. No sir.

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  • Domille@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Hey, this is the last hope I have. There’s not a lot of it, but there is a tiny chance that maybe maybe maybe things will get better. Very likely not, but, you know, one could hope.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard to design pachinko machines and mobile games, exclusively.

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    • Syrc@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Konami docet

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now when I think about it, the chronologically last Blizzard games I’ve enjoyed were WarCraft III TFT and old WoW on pirate servers. (My favorite is Tides of Darkness, obviously)

  So - I don’t know in which direction would things be turning around, what is there left even since those times?

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