• JokeDeity
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    171 year ago

    Wonderful news, I sure did want all those franchises that I loved to be turned to shit before being shelved for eternity.

    • @Maalus
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      121 year ago

      Blizzard has already been doing that for a while. Also failing with new franchises, not investing in their core games, half assing releases. I hope they actually turn things around for games like Starcraft, Diablo, HotS etc

      • @krakenx
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        01 year ago

        Blizzard would never have done that if Activision hadn’t been allowed to buy them. The new conglomerate will be worse than we anticipate in the same way Activion-Blizzard was.

        • @Maalus
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          31 year ago

          Why would they be worse? We have a bunch of good games out of Microsoft. I don’t see how they could fuck it up

          • @krakenx
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            1 year ago

            Blizzard had pretty much only made amazing games before Activision bought them. Activision also made a lot of good games back then. People couldn’t see how the merger would fick it up back then, yet it still did.

            I expect Bethesda to get infected with the worst that Activion-Blizzard has to offer more so than the opposite.

    • @[email protected]
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      41 year ago

      “If there are fewer and fewer games coming out that are more and more exclusive people will just have to buy an Xbox!” --an MBA, probably

    • @srecko
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      21 year ago

      Most of those are already shit (Fallout, Diablo, Overwatch, call of duty) or shelved 25+ years ago (Commander Keen, Hexen, Phantasmagoria…). Microsoft’s own games are rather good compared to Activision Blizzar or even Bethesda.