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| havoc00 said: If you are MS where do you go from here? They had a rough couple months and I really thought this would bring them back up, do they shrug it off and buy Io Interactive and studios like that? Or do they keep grinding this out which seems like a lost cause at this point? What becomes of Billionaire Bobby Kotics job at Actvi? so many questions. The biggest blow of this to me and i think was pointed out ITT is the loss of gamepass games this deal would have given them, esp if they cleaned up cheating on the older cods when they hit GP |
They'll have a backup plan, even if it's just reverting back to the plan post-Zenimax. Activision-Blizzard was a lucky opportunity that fell into their lap, it wasn't sought out by them, Phil's long term plan sell which he gave Satya didn't involve Activision-Blizzard and they can still be very competitive with XGS + Zenimax.
I think they'll be annoyed but ultimately shrug it off and yeah, I think they'll likely buy some more individual studios again, I also think they'll still seek a Mobile publisher, according to the CMA, they already tried once before already, they want in on the Mobile market in a larger way.
They will continue to appeal though because they wouldn't be doing their due diligence if they didn't, as many are saying, this is bigger than Xbox now, it affects Microsoft as a whole, this block could have negative ramifications for Microsoft as a whole if CMA can block deals based on speculation, nascent markets and block deals because Microsoft is big in Windows and Azure, Lol. Pretty much hurts Microsoft's ability to make acquisitions as a whole company, not just Xbox.
Activision-Blizzard will get $3bn from Microsoft for the breakup, Bobby will remain a rich man, I anticipate mass layoffs and a stock drop, I think they'll recover but overtime I expect a heavy loss of talent due to the toxic culture that Bobby has created at ABK, a lot of ABK employees seemed cautiously optimistic about joining Microsoft but now they're back stuck with that asshole.
Doubt it will be for long, I think ABK will sell to someone else, likely candidates Imho are either Saudi's PIF or Tencent.
