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EpicRandy said:

Machiavellian said:

I am going to pretty much say that MS will do nothing with Blizzard in the short term so I doubt anything will change with Diablo 4 until Blizzard decides to make those changes.  I enjoyed Diablo but then I have to say, I am not into the whole endless end game grind.  After playing Season one, I was done but its no different for me with any game like this.  From Destiny to Path of Exile, I can only stay interested in pretty much doing the same thing over and over but for so long before I want to move on.  I might come back after a year or 2 when its fresh for me but than again probably not.

In the short term, I don't believe MS will get directly involved either however a change in context is still very likely, under ABK the focus is max profits on every title, under MS it is player base growth and player retention. This may provide an easier path for Blizzard to listen to feedback and implement popular features and improvements.

This is true. Some of Blizzard and Activision's policies are no doubt down to the shitty upper management (Kotick and co).

And I'll say once again, it makes absolutely zero business sense to keep Bobby around, an overpaid dickhead and walking PR disaster, if Activision-Blizzard are reporting directly to Phil (which is confirmed), then Bobby becomes a useless middle-man being paid a ridiculous amount for no reason as Bobby is no longer making the decisions, Phil is and we've already seen Phil straight up disregard Bobby's opinion on a key matter already before the acquisition has even closed.

Bobby goes first of all, then Activision and Blizzard should be split, the upper management of ABK should be dissolved (and the board will be) and allow Activision and Blizzard to be led independently by their management team, that is Rob Kostich for Activision and Mike Ybarra (although Mike has put his foot in his mouth in the past) for Blizzard, without ABK's corporate holdings breathing down their necks.