I never said they made $80b, don't be silly. You mentioned they didn't cover the cost for these companies.

Your exact quote "Xbox haven't done the profits to buy mohjang, zenimax nor activision." And i proved that Halo alone has made over $5b which covers more than the Minecraft acquisition. That's just one IP, not including the profits straight from Live all those years ago. They would of made the money for the Bethesda and Mojang acquisitions just from the Xbox brand, however the Activison Blizzard acquisition will be focused around the GP long term subs etc. 

You also forget that MS have been profiting with subscriptions long before Sony and Nintendo implemented it. The entire 360 era, they were making billions off Gold Live. Or do you like to ignore that small detail in your arguments?

Still confused? Sony made $12b off PSN, DLC and Digital games in 2019. Now think about this, Xbox has been doing this online system aswell and their subscription model has been around a lot longer, so do the maths.

Also MS/Xbox don't announce profits from Gold and subs, thats why you never heard of it.

None. I own every platform.

Answer as if you only had one console and that wouldn't receive the console games from Acti/Blizz, you may even include PC titles that aren't usually on consoles if you wish.

You know what's funny? Prior to this I didn't give a shit about Activision or Blizzard, as both were on my shit-list of devs/publishers I won't buy from. Them and EA, with a handful of exceptions (I did get spyro Reignited and the Crash n-Sane trilogy, as well as stuff like It Takes Two and Unravel and even Jedi Fallen Order from EA). But now? Now I'm just pissed because of this. I won't miss anything of theirs, I don't personally care, but it still feels wrong.

and as usual, bringing it up on Twitter has morons going 'but sony does this toooooo!' not realizing there's a world of difference between Sony buying Bluepoint and Housemarque and Insomniac and Sucker Punch (All companies that heavily and almost exclusively worked with Sony prior) and Microsoft buying Zenimax and Activision-Blizzard, two companies that sell better on Ps4 and prior to this almost exclusively did multiplatform games. (Yeah, Morrowind was Xbox exclusive, but that was what, 2003? That's a whole different scenario.)

I just don't like the idea that a company can just throw money at their problems to BUY existing franchises instead of investing in developers and naturally growing their portfolio. It bugs me, becuase it means a company that's just in it for the money will have more influence on the market, and that's how we get shit like loot boxes and microtransactions and having to pay for online.

None of them?

I used to enjoy Blizzard games back in the day, but I don't know if any of them are good anymore since they merged with Activision. I can only imagine that game quality will degrade even more now that they are acquired by Microsoft. I've never actually played Diablo 2 or Warcraft 3 though, even though they both look fun. Perhaps I should buy copies of them now, before they are potentially not available anymore?

The downturn came when they merged with Activision around 2008 with Bobby Kotick at the helm. I really hope the guy gets the boot sooner rather than later.

Though saying that a lot of talent has already left the Blizzard studios (main devs working on WoW). So only time will tell if they can go back to their hey-day. Hopefully now they're from the shackles of Activision they can go back to making exceptional games.

On talent I have no doubt the merger made both companies worse and Bobby is likely the main reason. But on the profitability I have the impression they have grow a lot in the same period. Like we can hate the man for who he is and what he done as gamers, but for stockholders they were probably happy (if not they would have sacked him long ago).