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Ryuu96 on 21 November 2022
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EspadaGrim said:
Ryuu96 said:

Wonder if Microsoft would accept only acquiring Blizzard/King and selling off Activision to someone else, although, I don't know who would buy them.

This would be an extreme last resort; I do believe mobile is more important in this deal than CoD to Microsoft, it's key to a number of things, for starters, actually getting into the mobile market which they've done an awful job of so far and secondly having big guns to use against Android/iOS. Regulators don't seem to give a single fuck about King or Blizzard, Lol.

Realistically, this 10-year offer should be more than enough for regulators who are overly concerned about Sony, but it's just an interesting scenario.

If this deal is all about Mobile Gaming for MS then they should do that, just spin-off Activision from Blizzard and King and do what Sony with Bungie and keep them as a subsidiary that stays multi platform, why would anyone have a problem with that if CoD isn’t going to be exclusive anyway.

It's not *all* about Mobile Gaming since Activision still makes a ton of money and would be a huge Game Pass pusher but I think if you weighed them up, the mobile segment is more important to Microsoft than CoD, so if there's an option of Blizzard + King or Nothing, I'm thinking they'd go with Blizzard + King, Lol. Meanwhile all regulators are banging on about is CoD.

King brings in just as much revenue as Activision (if not more) and when it comes to profits is likely way more profitable too, and that doesn't even include Blizzard's mobile projects and CoD Mobile is part of Activision's revenue, not King's. Microsoft has been desperate for a long time to get into mobile in a big way and this is arguably one of the few ways they can achieve it.

To be clear though, I think this scenario has about 1% chance of happening and I'm fairly sure that if it was a concession, they can't just spin them off, they'd be forced to sell Activision which means Microsoft has to find someone wealthy enough to acquire Activision, likely a direct rival, it's just an interesting scenario to think about, I don't think it will happen though.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 21 November 2022