Touching the night talk, every day nonsense and game-related farts, ghost things, new things.
So much to be owed... (Photo/Xiao Luo)
The night before, there was a big event in the game industry, and Microsoft bought Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, paid in cash. I was happily scrolling social media when I saw a reporter who had previously worked with Activision Blizzard about sexual harassment and said, "Microsoft may be preparing to buy Activision Blizzard." "I suppose, Presumably, that is to say.
There was no reaction at the time, and after 1 minute, the reporter said: "$70 billion, ready to be completed." I jumped up from the bed and sat down in front of the computer, and after another 1 minute, the Xbox official tweeted; "Welcome to Activision Blizzard to join the Xbox family." "It was a shock, I felt like I was standing on the fork in the road of history.
I've played the Blizzard game a lot in the newsroom, and I've been working on sexual harassment cases before, writing Activision Blizzard, The End of Eternity, which opens 500 tabs a day, half of which have Bobby Kotick's fake smile on it.
Professional fake smile
Bobby Kotick is the CEO of Activision Blizzard and the center of the previous whirlpool of public opinion. After the Microsoft acquisition, his future is uncertain — hey, it's uncertain, but whether Kotic continues to sit in the CEO position of Activision Blizzard, the stock in his hands is sold at a premium of $95 per share, a 45% premium, or paid for all cash. From a personal point of view, Kotic is not a loser at all, and he makes a lot of money.
Of course, from the player's point of view, kotic being kicked out is naturally a good thing. I thought of a way out for Blizzard for half a day when I wrote that headline, but I really didn't expect to be acquired — who would have thought? One behemoth swallows another.
A month ago, Activision Blizzard was still in a chaotic state of "cutting and messing", and we tried to give it ideas but to no avail. I didn't expect to be reduced by Microsoft's force to ten will...
In fact, there is not much to say about the acquisition case, players are mainly playing terriers, and the mainstream media has set their sights on the "meta-universe" mentioned in Microsoft's official live broadcast. It is not interesting to see more, and the metacosm does not occupy too much place in Microsoft's layout. Two sentences were mentioned, but only two sentences were mentioned. "$68.7 billion in cash" they also mentioned twice.
As for the fact that "Activision Blizzard co-leader Mike Ybarra is actually an undercover agent sent by Microsoft in the past"... Just have fun, don't take it seriously. Anyway, the sexual harassment case was certainly not his whole thing.
We talked about Activision, talked about Blizzard, talked about half a day, it is better to play two more XGP games - this Activision Blizzard series will enter XGP, since I bought XSX in the first half of last year, Microsoft has good news, I hope Sony can also keep up with it.
Former Blizzard President Mike Mohan quietly praised this statement from "StarCraft 2" pro TLO, a bit of a sigh
Many people say that Sony will be finished after Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, in fact, it can't be said that there is not so much connection between the two things, but if the "Call of Duty" series enters XGP, it is indeed a heavy blow to Sony. We don't know what strategy Sony will adopt in the future, and recently there have been some rumors that they want to learn XGP to make a subscription service, which is also very good, and the $70 game is indeed a bit expensive.
In short, this night talk is a bit like a late postscript or handwritten note in Activision Blizzard, The End of Eternity. I have been following Blizzard News for a long time, this time with a big one, but whether it is big news or small news, we seem to be able to only listen to second-hand reports from foreign media at present, which is very sad. Two days ago, the news was that Bobby Kotick had thought about buying Kotaku (a foreign game media) to reverse his negative image, and in the end it didn't work out, Kotaku is a very dignified website, and has not been afraid to express his point of view, I like them.
On the other hand, I envy Kotaku, not because of the acquisition, but because they get first-hand information about foreign game companies. Although players can play any game in the world at will, the game industry at home and abroad as a whole is still separated by a layer of film, we talk about domestic news, Kotaku talk about foreign news.
The night talk is a bit scattered, in fact, I am just casually talking about this pile of things around Activision Blizzard. For now, I have three expectations for Blizzard: to solve the sexual harassment case, to do StarCraft 3 well under Microsoft, and to kick Bobby Kotick's ass hard.