Microsoft Plans to Close The Activision Blizzard Acquisition Next Week, Says Report - Insider Gaming
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A new report from has claimed that Microsoft is planning to close its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week.

A new report from has claimed that Microsoft is planning to close its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week.

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This is really bad news for the games industry that Microsoft is a monster.

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Microsoft isn’t that bad compared to the rest of the industry.

Scott
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What do you mean. They own a monopolistic amount of studios. Adding more to that is only going to make things worse.

https://www.gamesradar.com/xbox-game-studios-microsoft/

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I mean the industry is already a cesspool. The consolidation is troubling from a failure of regulators. The games Industry deserves what it gets here though.

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Overall I don’t agree with that, but I do agree they’re better than ActiBlizz. You’d have to blast down into bedrock to get lower than Bobby Kotick

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Right now they aren’t. You do know how bad they became with their last monopoly, right?

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Microsoft still support AoE2 after all these years, while Activision more or less fucked the SC2 proscene so hard it’s amazing it’s still going as strong as it is.

Not to mention what they did to the classic WotLK launch. It couldn’t get any worse than that.

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What happened in the classic wotlk launch? I haven’t played since the original wotlk so it’s been awhile haha

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The servers were essentially 95-99% of either faction, and they locked migration several times seemingly on random. A lot of people got stuck on servers that were nigh unplayable because of the other faction dominating everything.

It even included paid server transfers on some servers for some weird reason. I got hardlocked on 98% alliance server while playing a tauren resto druid. Their customer service told me to “level another character on a server of my choosing”. Leveled to 80 out of sheer spite and then quit when my game time ran out.

Truly one of the biggest disappointments in my entire life. I know it’s just a game, but I had looked forward to getting to redo wrath since they first announced classic in general, and they completely ruined it.

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Damn! That sounds horrible, I remember when WoW’s customer service was seemingly top notch, how far they have fallen. I guess it’s not surprising with how disappointing Diablo 4 was.

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