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I was kinda hoping Microsoft would improve Activision.
Someone’s an optimist.
The bar to be an improvement is so obscenely low that it's almost impossible for Microsoft not to be better.
In the development world, Microsoft is actually doing some legitimately good work since the end of the Balmer years. Back then open source was a cancer that needed to be eliminated. Now they have VSCode (maybe the most popular IDE at the moment), develop and release Typescript under an open license, and own github (still a bit of a mixed bag but they're trying).
Narrator: They won't.
Lol
Only if Bobby Kotick will be replaced by a real game developer and not a suit.
Supposedly, Kotick is out if Microsoft gets to take over. My assumption was that Microsoft won't wanna keep running the IP into the ground right after acquiring it
Its still too soon, isnt it? Like regulators still havent OKd it and stuff yet.
Yeah I think they approved it and are now reexamining it once again.
It's hard to believe that Microsoft is going to own World of Warcraft.
I look forward to fighting Clippy as a raid boss
I've not played wow since legion but I would come back for that
I've never played wow but might have to try if that happens
Well they certainly can’t turn it into the worst gaming company because EA still exists.
I think Activision-Blizzard passed EA in badness years ago. Maybe Square Enix did too.
Like, when's the last time there was an EA controversy beyond "game's bad?" And even then I've only really heard sports games and Battlefield are bad.
You can still hope. The acquisition is not complete yet.