So Blizzard is creating its own Steam/Xbox Live/PSN...kinda

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ph4nt said:

vlad321 said:
Maybe one day BLizzard will ditch the idiots that are Activision and join up with Valve for a super independent studio that is the bet in all major genres, FPS, RTS, RPG.

While legally Blizzard and Activision are one company. Activision has absolutely no effect on what Blizzard does / wants to do.

Except they own Blizzard and all their IPs so if some day some Blizzard folks decide to leave, they will do it without Wow, Diablo, Starcraft and co....

Besides there are some advantages in being part of a bigger company.

The last two year of Wow development, Blizzard lost a lot of money as they were ramping up to release and finish Wow. Vivendi ( who owned Blizzard at the time) just bankrolled it. It would have been a much different situation if Blizzard had been independant...

 

 

They need to do something for Gaming on Windows because between Games for Windows thingy, Steam, Battlenet and more it's not very friendly to have to maintain several IDs and be limited to recognize the people that play the game from the same editor only..

This is one area where consoles are really ahead. Lets not kid ourselves, Steam and Battlenet and just attempts to copy XboxLive and PSN..

 

Valve is going to run into some issues with Steam at some point if they don't split it off. Having a game maker that manages the platform to sell all digital games is just a recipe for disaster....