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Machiavellian on 22 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.

Its not all about mobile gaming.  Its about having a lot of content to get GP on mobile devices.  MS want full fledge AAA, AA and A games on mobile devices with GP powering the service.  Spinning off Activision really isn't what MS is looking at, they need constant content or a particular quality and quantity.  Instead, MS just not so anal on whether COD stays on PS system because like Minecraft, it just makes to much money doing what it does best.  That does not mean that MS might not have some spin off plans or other ways to take advantage of the IP.