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

  • Scott
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    252 years ago

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

        • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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          52 years ago

          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.

      • @NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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        152 years ago

        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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        2 years ago

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

    • andz
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      72 years ago

      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.

        • andz
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          32 years ago

          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.

          • @StunningGoggles@sh.itjust.works
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            12 years ago

            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.