Hello everyone, this is the positive shock game, I am the positive shock little brother.
Presumably, everyone has heard about Microsoft's 68.7 billion formal acquisition of Activision Blizzard, after all, this is the largest merger in the history of gaming. Upon completion of the deal, Microsoft will become the world's third-largest game company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony, and will own franchises to Activision, Blizzard and King Studio and its games, including World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Call of Duty and Candy Crush.
After the completion of the acquisition, Activision Blizzard will report directly to Phil Spencer, and future Activision Blizzard classic games and new games will be added to the console and PC Game Pass.
As soon as this news came out, it can be said that it shocked the game industry. Among the players, it can be said that there was an uproar, but I didn't expect that 2022 had just arrived, and Microsoft Dad had made a big deal!
Many players have said that they do not know whether Microsoft can reproduce the glory of "Blizzard production, must be a boutique".
Blizzard fell, but he fell into Microsoft's arms
- A storm is more fiery than a storm
Some Activision Blizzard players went to the front of the door of Microsoft to show their respect for Microsoft...
After all, not long ago, Blizzard was washed away because of various political correctness and various storms, and I did not expect that Microsoft's father directly came to the rescue.
Many players have opened their minds and said that they can already anticipate the future.
Warcraft or something, I want to log in with a Microsoft account in the future! ↑↑↑
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Watch over Microsoft World ↑↑↑
By the way, to tell you an unpopular little knowledge, Microsoft is the activision Blizzard acquired with cash, what does it mean? There are only four companies in the world (Saudi Aramco doesn't count). Among them, there is a company that has a game business. And then the company really did that.
It is worthy of being a "giant hard" big guy!
However, the most hurtful thing about this acquisition is probably Sony, after all, Microsoft's acquisition, Microsoft's lineup, instantly threatened Sony's position. The acquisition caused Sony's stock price to plummet in an instant, with Sony's share price on the New York Stock Exchange falling 7.17% that day, the lowest closing price since late October 2021.
Unless Sony opens up the PS5 platform with its nose pinched, allowing Microsoft to launch XGP on the PS5 and mandates Xbox account login, the future PS monopoly of the COD series will basically be a foregone conclusion (perhaps not from 2022) – Microsoft obviously cannot be soft on XGP's competitors.
It is understandable that Sony's stock price has fallen, why has Nintendo's stock price risen?
To say that the happiest man in this acquisition is probably Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard.
Because he is the only activision Blizzard executive with change of control protection, he will be financially compensated if he is replaced after the acquisition. Based on previous disclosures, it would probably make about $370 million from the acquisition, and if it was fired after the acquisition, it could also earn about $290 million.
Although everyone has a big opinion of this "businessman", the truth is that whether he will leave in the future or not, he is a winner in life.
In this acquisition, the most mixed taste is probably Mike Ybarra, CEO of Blizzard Entertainment.
He spent 22 years at Microsoft, where he was responsible for the development of several versions of Windows and the game distribution in the Xbox division. He moved to Blizzard in 2019 as Executive Vice President of Platform Technology, and just became CEO of Blizzard Entertainment last August. Unexpectedly, two years later, he returned to Microsoft passively, and he himself sent a smiling expression on Twitter.
The little brother wants to say that this is really not... Double Agent?
——" Microsoft's 70 billion acquisition of Blizzard just to take him home"
I'm the famous Microsoft and Xbox senior double agent in Seattle, codenamed Pangolin
—— "Report leader, I have completed the task [smile]"
A positive question: Do you think Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard is a good thing for Activision Blizzard?