darkknightkryta said:
RVDondaPC said:
| bugrimmar said:
On that note, why is Blizzard even hanging with Activision? I'm sure they have more than enough capital to buy themselves out.. or do I not know what I'm talking about?
p.s. Blizzard will never get a cent from me again until they split with Activision. Screw!
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You don't know what you are talking about.
Blizzard is owned by Activision-Blizzard. Activision-Blizzard is a holding company that owns both Activision and Blizzard. Any capital Blizzard has is Activision-Blizzards capital. The only way Blizzard would split from Activision is if Activision-Blizzard agrees to sell Blizzard to another company. Of course it doesn't have to be a company like EA. A capital investment company could come in and buy Blizzard and it would just be Blizzard. Or I guess they could sell Activision to another company just as easily. But either way it's very unlikely to ever happen and def wont happen in the near future.
What I don't get though is why the hostility towards it's association with Activision? I mean Blizzard was owned by another shitty video game publisher before it was associated with Acivision. It's not like it was it's own company and then got bought out by Activision. And it's not like it's management changed when it became part of Activision-Blizzard. It's in the same exact boat as it has been when you liked them.
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Except with Kotick in charge? (Note I mean that as a question, is Kotick just running Activision or is he running all of Activision-Blizzard?)
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I don't know why everyone hates him but if you ask me Kotick is probably the smartest person out of the whole video game industry. He may say some brash statements that piss people(gamers) off but in reality he's usually dead on with what he says. He's a business man and you need a business man to run a business. But he also knows you have to give the consumers what they want. He's good at finding a balance. People may hate him for "milking" franchises but if we didn't get a new COD every year most of us would be pissed.
