Activision Blizzard merger approved

[cwbys21]

shio said:

cwbys21 said:

So correct me if I am wrong, but Activision buys Vivendi Games (Blizzard and Sierra) from Vivindi, and then Vivindi buys 52% of Activision Blizzard?  It doesn't seem very straight forward but maybe someone who understands more about business things like this can explain it a bit better.

When Activision and Vivendi games merged, it meant Vivendi couldn't retain majority ownership of the new company because Activision was bigger than Vivendi Games. In light of that, Vivendi bought part of Activision so that they would own over 50% of the new Activision Blizzard after the merge.

 

 

 

That does make a lot of sense.  Blizzard isn't that big of a company people wise (they got huge IPs but only three teams) and Sierra I didn't even know was still making games (only a slight joke there).

edit: actually I think Blizzard has 4 teams now, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, WoW team, and the secret MMO they have been hiring people on for.