Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard

[copebot]

MS belatedly realized that because of DirectX, the PC is a Microsoft console, and they shouldn't cannibalize one of their consoles for the benefit of another one of their consoles. Linux doesn't exist as a gaming platform. The only thing that sucks from Microsoft's perspective is that for legacy antitrust reasons, there is no monopoly app store for Windows. They can get around that and antitrust concerns with Gamepass, which makes their app store so cheap that any prospective antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft has a steep hill to climb because Gamepass is cheap, and the primary test of antitrust harm is that it is results in higher prices for consumers.

Steam, Epic, and GOG are just competing storefronts for the mixed PC hardware platform that runs on Microsoft software. The complexity of the PC hardware ecosystem has made it perpetually annoying for app store companies to try to create competitive offerings on (see failure of Steam Machine, the relative failure of the Nvidia boxes, Stadia, etc.).

With Gamepass, Microsoft can severely undermine the competing app stores without running into antitrust concerns. In the future, you will launch most of your stuff from Xbox, your software updates will be synced to your Bill Gates vaccine chips, and the storefronts will seriously struggle to compete. Also, none of them can afford to alienate MS too badly because most of the products developed, published, and, and sold are reliant on proprietary technology exclusively available from Microsoft.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Why would Microsoft make console exclusives?

O hai, welcome from the year 2022.

From your retarded question, I can only assume you are posting via a timewarp from some time before the year 2001.

You see, in that year, Microsoft will launch their own console! Hard to believe but it really happens. There's a Playstation and a Nintendo and a Sega and a fucking Microsoft console. It's actually just a PC with a hard drive and everything and will in fact cause all other consoles to become PC's going forward but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

Let's just say, In our time, Microsoft owns their own console and they release exclusive games for it, in order to make people buy more consoles.

Also in about 2011 or so there will be this thing called "bitcoin", it will look retarded and be worthless.

Buy as much of it as you possibly can. Thank me later.

You are so witty. Please tell us why doesn't MS make console exclusives for 5 years? Because it seems to me that with the exception of Halo, every new XBox title is also coming to PC.

They are XBAWX exclusive at launch. Then later ported to PC.

You're welcome.

 

[J_C]

Why would Microsoft make console exclusives?

O hai, welcome from the year 2022.

From your retarded question, I can only assume you are posting via a timewarp from some time before the year 2001.

You see, in that year, Microsoft will launch their own console! Hard to believe but it really happens. There's a Playstation and a Nintendo and a Sega and a fucking Microsoft console. It's actually just a PC with a hard drive and everything and will in fact cause all other consoles to become PC's going forward but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

Let's just say, In our time, Microsoft owns their own console and they release exclusive games for it, in order to make people buy more consoles.

Also in about 2011 or so there will be this thing called "bitcoin", it will look retarded and be worthless.

Buy as much of it as you possibly can. Thank me later.

You are so witty. Please tell us why doesn't MS make console exclusives for 5 years? Because it seems to me that with the exception of Halo, every new XBox title is also coming to PC.

They are XBAWX exclusive at launch. Then later ported to PC.

You're welcome.

I see you are not well versed in current gaming trends. No problem, let me enlighten you. Xbox exclusives are launched simultaniously on PC in the last couple of years.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

MS belatedly realized that because of DirectX, the PC is a Microsoft console

people overestimate the importance of the graphics library and heavily underestimate the importance of porting all the various middleware and console-specific shenanigans, along with having to test on a wide range of hardware(contrasted to targeting one... err two... specific consoles) with different OS versions/OS updates.

As for the latter part, ironically, it's easier on Linux than Windows. Steam for Linux only officially supports Ubuntu LTS and ships with its own runtime environment.

 

[toro]

MS belatedly realized that because of DirectX, the PC is a Microsoft console, and they shouldn't cannibalize one of their consoles for the benefit of another one of their consoles. Linux doesn't exist as a gaming platform. The only thing that sucks from Microsoft's perspective is that for legacy antitrust reasons, there is no monopoly app store for Windows. They can get around that and antitrust concerns with Gamepass, which makes their app store so cheap that any prospective antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft has a steep hill to climb because Gamepass is cheap, and the primary test of antitrust harm is that it is results in higher prices for consumers.

Steam, Epic, and GOG are just competing storefronts for the mixed PC hardware platform that runs on Microsoft software. The complexity of the PC hardware ecosystem has made it perpetually annoying for app store companies to try to create competitive offerings on (see failure of Steam Machine, the relative failure of the Nvidia boxes, Stadia, etc.).

With Gamepass, Microsoft can severely undermine the competing app stores without running into antitrust concerns. In the future, you will launch most of your stuff from Xbox, your software updates will be synced to your Bill Gates vaccine chips, and the storefronts will seriously struggle to compete. Also, none of them can afford to alienate MS too badly because most of the products developed, published, and, and sold are reliant on proprietary technology exclusively available from Microsoft.

100% this. Microsoft doesn't care anymore about Xbox, PS5 or consoles generations. Gamepass is the only game in town.

 

[Zed]

I'm sure someone has already made the connection somewhere on the forums, but here goes:

Sierra -> Activision -> Microsoft, so Microsoft owns the Arcanum IP (they even publish it on GOG)
Jason Anderson at Inxile -> Microsoft
Leo Boy and Tim Cain at Obsidian -> Microsoft

I expect Microsoft to squander everything and everyone, but it's fun to dream.

 

[Roguey]

Leo Boy and Tim Cain at Obsidian -> Microsoft

Sources say Timmy's retired. He's definitely moved out of state, so if he hasn't, he's a permanent remote worker.

 

[Spectacle]

Leo Boy and Tim Cain at Obsidian -> Microsoft

Sources say Timmy's retired. He's definitely moved out of state, so if he hasn't, he's a permanent remote worker.

Surely he'll move back to California to work on Arcanum II, right?

 

[Alienman]

Stefanie Sterling, what a mess.

Lul.

 

[toro]

Leo Boy and Tim Cain at Obsidian -> Microsoft

Sources say Timmy's retired. He's definitely moved out of state, so if he hasn't, he's a permanent remote worker.

If he retired then Leo retired too.

 

[Roguey]

If he retired then Leo retired too.

What would give you that impression? There's no news about what he's working on (though since Adler has taken over The Outer Worlds 2, it's not that) but no one's said anything about him leaving.

 

[aweigh]

I'm sure someone has already made the connection somewhere on the forums, but here goes:

Sierra -> Activision -> Microsoft, so Microsoft owns the Arcanum IP (they even publish it on GOG)
Jason Anderson at Inxile -> Microsoft
Leo Boy and Tim Cain at Obsidian -> Microsoft

I expect Microsoft to squander everything and everyone, but it's fun to dream.

= Grounded 2!

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

 

[Nano]

Surely he'll move back to California to work on Arcanum II, right?

After Outer Worlds why would you want him to?

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Blizzard is creating a new IP!

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/blizzard/23768911/create-a-new-universe-with-us

Create a new universe with us
Blizzard EntertainmentJanuary 25, 2022

Blizzard is embarking on our next quest. We are going on a journey to a whole new universe, home to a brand-new survival game for PC and console. A place full of heroes we have yet to meet, stories yet to be told, and adventures yet to be lived. A vast realm of possibility, waiting to be explored.
Every story needs a teller. And every world needs builders. What if that could be you?
For thirty years, Blizzard has been creating universes for millions of players around the globe. This requires a diverse team of developers willing to lend their voices, to listen and to be heard. That is our mission.
Do you like survival games? Do you want to join a collaborative team of experienced developers at the early stage of a new project in a new world...and help write the next chapter in Blizzard's story?
This is your call to adventure. Will you answer it?

 

[IDtenT]

Is this the End or the Beginning of World porn?

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Just what everyone wanted, another survival game.

Blizzard has become the equivalent of those studios that makes Diablo clones. What irony.

 

[Caim]

Yeah sure, let's go work for Blizzard after it came out that it's an all-you-can-molest frat house out there in Irvine.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Yeah sure, let's go work for Blizzard after it came out that it's an all-you-can-molest frat house out there in Irvine.

You don't want free titty milk?

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Yeah sure, let's go work for Blizzard after it came out that it's an all-you-can-molest frat house out there in Irvine.

How would that stop males from applying?

 

[Caim]

You don't want free titty milk?

Unless the woman is lactating because she gave birth to your child drinking the milk created as a result of another man's child makes you a cuck.

How would that stop males from applying?

Implying dudes don't get molested as well, but they don't report it out of fear of being ridiculed. Also Irvine is in California, and it's full of sex pests there.

 

[toro]

If he retired then Leo retired too.

What would give you that impression? There's no news about what he's working on (though since Adler has taken over The Outer Worlds 2, it's not that) but no one's said anything about him leaving.

They were separated at birth.

 

[whydoibother]

CREATE A NEW UNIVERSE WITH US

 

[mediocrepoet]

CREATE A NEW UNIVERSE WITH US

Open roles: All, everyone quit.

 

[whydoibother]

CREATE A NEW UNIVERSE WITH US

Open roles: All, everyone quit.

Not everyone, there's at least 2 people remaining. Source:

Profile, its interesting.