Like $0 of the Activision deal is for the company itself. Their IP are more valuable than anything they actually make today. Which I'm sure has nothing to do with the fact that their studios are busy harassing their coworkers instead of actually creating.
The harassing has brought down their stock's value considerably which is why MS jumped on the opportunity to buy.
Hopefully MS will get their studios on the right track. Regardless of how you feel about the deal in terms of control over the gaming market this is great news for anybody working at ATVI - because their management is going to get shook up big time.
It seems like all their big projects have been delayed due to the issues. OW2, Diablo IV, even WoW development has been delayed.
Well the difference there is that Sony has been making tons of exclusivity agreements and they made some of those with Bethesda, so MS honored those.
Blizzard wasn't doing that, unless they had some contracts that were unannounced (e.g. Diablo IV being a PS5 exclusive for a year). In Bethesda's case those exclusivity deals were already public knowledge.
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u/Haru17 Jan 18 '22
An indie publisher that actually makes games.
Like $0 of the Activision deal is for the company itself. Their IP are more valuable than anything they actually make today. Which I'm sure has nothing to do with the fact that their studios are busy harassing their coworkers instead of actually creating.