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crissindahouse on 18 January 2022

I guess CoD will stay multiplat or they risk that another game will take the throne. The franchise has already more competition than ever.

It's also a deal to boost GP on PC which is still struggling.

Personally I would have preferred the same money spent on other companies, though.

For that amount they could have bought a few other big devs to have a bigger variety.

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DeusXmachina on 18 January 2022

Thats huge news but i havent bought a single Activision game for over a decade so its hard to be excited about this.

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derpysquirtle64 on 18 January 2022

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Sony WILL appeal this, I have no doubt about that.

Nintendo won't give a shit.

I think there's a strong chance concessions are made, such as, CoD will have to remain Multiplatform.

Honestly though, exclusive or not, this will be massive for Game Pass so I don't think it's a big deal.

Not sure about the rest, I think the smaller stuff could go exclusive, such as Spyro, Crash, anything else.

Part of me wonders how strong the CoD campaign is...Would it be a good idea to make CoD a Campaign only franchise going forward with Warzone eating into CoD mainline MP portion? Warzone does seem to be hurting CoD so maybe they should just focus on that, at minimum, CoD should go to being a 2 year franchise, Microsoft doesn't need it every year with this many studios now.

Given how everyone is getting burnt out of CoD at this point anyway, with sales decreasing over the past years, I think MP will go F2P and campaign will be included in GamePass. Warzone 100% will remain multiplatform.

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derpysquirtle64 on 18 January 2022

Ryuu96 said:

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Given how everyone is getting burnt out of CoD at this point anyway, with sales decreasing over the past years, I think MP will go F2P and campaign will be included in GamePass. Warzone 100% will remain multiplatform.

I'd make Warzone the CoD MP experience going forward, it's already F2P.

Turn CoD mainline into a Campaign only franchise.

Warzone is eating into CoD's MP, I'm not sure if making two F2P CoD MPs will be a wise idea cause they'd both eat into each other, can they not just add in a more traditional CoD experience to Warzone?

Nah, killing off COD MP would be the dumbest move possible. Because traditional COD MP and Warzone are very different things targeted at different audiences. I doubt they really eat into each other.

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kirby007 on 18 January 2022

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Ryuu96 said:

Microsoft has to pay Activision $3bn if the deal doesn't go through.

I don't think they would come after the company in 3rd place for revenue.

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Spade on 18 January 2022

Ryuu96 said:

Time to close Battle.net and Bethesda.net as they both suck?

Phil is some fucking master salesman, I would love to be a fly in the room and hear how Phil convinced Satya to go from almost killing Xbox, to acquiring Zenimax, to making Microsoft's largest acquisition ever.

Phil has also been promoted I noticed, he used to be Vice President of Gaming at Microsoft but his new role is now CEO of Gaming at Microsoft.

Is that a new title? Congrats Phil!

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Spade on 18 January 2022

Just let the COD support studios do their own shit.

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Spade on 18 January 2022

Ryuu96 said:

Maybe Toys for Bob can make Banjo and shut all the Banjo fans up finally

If they get them out of the grips of CoD then this is even more genre gaps filled.

Spyro first, fuck the fat bear.

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