Forza Motorsport looks so damn good. The game has some insane lighting and reflections especially in cockpit view. Performance w/RT is the ideal way to play.

Not to mention, the DLC characters that were tied to the premium edition of the game. 

There's an interesting thing about that, Hoeg believes that the wording in the Ubisoft agreement can be twisted into saying that anything an Activision studio works on (such as Halo) would therefore be an "Activision title" and allow Ubisoft to claim it, Idas believes this not to be the case though, I suppose it's how you interpret the contract and different lawyers will interpret it in different ways.

Anyway, I don't think ABK will change drastically, COD needs even more staff than ever, so they'll be new studios opened for COD. Could get Toys for Bob off COD by opening more Infinity Ward studios and such around the world. They definitely won't move them to help on the far less popular Halo and Gears though, I don't think they even need to, Gears is fine and Halo appears to have fixed their content pipeline issue now.

But CA should be acquired and made into a full-time support studio for 343i in addition to working on original IP.

Hoeg also doesn't buy that Microsoft is waiting for the FTC drama to blow over before adding ABK titles to Game Pass, he says it would be the opposite and Xbox would want to integrate Activision-Blizzard ASAP because courts are less inclined to demand a company divest if it has already done significant integration

I'm assuming because of how much of a mess it would therefore be to split the companies, it would be bad for everyone, it would hurt Microsoft, Activision-Blizzard, it would be a massive headache for the courts, it'd harm consumers, etc. So it's in Microsoft's best interest to integrate ASAP to convince the courts further to tell FTC to take a hike.

That would make sense then that Kotick's contract will expire at the end of the year rather than April 2024. MS wants the integration to be completed ASAP. Because IIRC, the FTCs hearing before the appeals court happens in early December. 

Yeah it could be another factor to Kotick's early contract expiration, Microsoft wants him out ASAP so integration is complete, ABK has lost its CEO, if we divest now then ABK will be rudderless kind of thing. Bobby is leaving by the end of the year and FTC's hearing will be by the end of the year and the hearing is only to appeal the decision, not to block the deal, that'll only come after if they successfully appeal the decision, Lol.

Also quicker integration could prove that there's no immediate SLC which is something FTC has to prove.