Activision/Blizzard MERGER

[-Mad Skillz-]

Some pretty big news from the gaming world.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7123582.stm

[Kang Seung Jae]

Korea's going to go nuts now.....

[[DOT].L]

So, when are we going to get our Guitarcraft II?;)

[Spectacular_Insanity]

Uh oh, they're going to conquer the gaming world! :p

[d.sinclair]

^well, don't forget about EA..

[Vexx]

The details of the merger don't give me great vibes but then my history with Activision is iffy and they appear to be on the upside of the merger (there's *always* a dominant/submissive in these things and someone's internal culture gets crushed).

[jedinat]

Activision makes those games that get boring after a couple hours; Blizzard makes those games that suck people's lives away. A happy medium from now on?

[Aoie_Emesai]

Activision makes those games that get boring after a couple hours; Blizzard makes those games that suck people's lives away. A happy medium from now on?

So we are now gonna be bored with very long games, eh ^^?

[Seditary]

Or get sucked away for only a couple hours?

[MaxwellDemon]

Or get sucked away for only a couple hours?

Naw, a few hours isn't enough. BlizzVision games will suck your life entirely away. :heh:

It sounds like a good news to me though. I have been very fond of both companies for their games(though Activision is more of a past thing :p). :)

[2H-Dragon]

Isn't necessarily a bad thing. You just have to ignore the fake sequels. And focus on the real sequels and the games made by the blizzard team. It's not that hard to find out what is made by who. :P

[Kaioshin Sama]

Activision is in my top 3 worst video game companies along with THQ and EA (used to be Acclaim). I have never played any game by Activision that has been particularly remarkable. I don't like that they seemingly resort to licenses in order to make a profit rather then solid programming, expansive gaming worlds with lots of detail and backstory, developer talent and new ideas. Blizzard has taken part in revolutions in Strategy, Dungeon Crawling and MMORPG games, but what does Activision have to offer that nobody else can do? This seems like a really odd pairing.

[2H-Dragon]

Activision is in my top 3 worst video game companies along with THQ and EA (used to be Acclaim). I have never played any game by Activision that has been particularly remarkable. I don't like that they seemingly resort to licenses in order to make a profit rather then solid programming, expansive gaming worlds with lots of detail and backstory, developer talent and new ideas. Blizzard has taken part in revolutions in Strategy, Dungeon Crawling and MMORPG games, but what does Activision have to offer that nobody else can do? This seems like a really odd pairing.

Well with money involved nothing is a odd paring.

[Seditary]

Money is the root of all evil.

[Tormenk]

Well this is certainly something but I don't get a good feeling out of this at all. :heh:

The love of money is the root of all evil. ;)

[Solace]

I don't like that they seemingly resort to licenses in order to make a profit rather then solid programming, expansive gaming worlds with lots of detail and backstory, developer talent and new ideas.

When millions of dollars in development are riding on the line of shareholder expectation, taking a risk on an unproven property is not something that happens often unless they decide to put something out to test the waters and it gets early buzz.

Although I do agree with your feelings, in reality most new and unique properties end up getting passed over because they don't appeal to Joe Average consumer who wants the latest sequel to last years games.

So about the merger. Eh, whatever. We'll find out how deep this affects Blizzard even though they are claiming it will be business as usual. The whole thing reeks of the Sony-Sigil deal however.

[Edgewalker]

This is probably going to be a bad thing.

[aohige]

Activision is in my top 3 worst video game companies along with THQ and EA (used to be Acclaim). I have never played any game by Activision that has been particularly remarkable. I don't like that they seemingly resort to licenses in order to make a profit rather then solid programming, expansive gaming worlds with lots of detail and backstory, developer talent and new ideas. Blizzard has taken part in revolutions in Strategy, Dungeon Crawling and MMORPG games, but what does Activision have to offer that nobody else can do? This seems like a really odd pairing.

Yes, it does seem like an odd pairing.
On one hand, you have a giant company who's infamous for "sucky games".
On the other hand, you have a reputable company who cranks out masterpiece games one after another, and is one of the best, if not the best, computer game developers in the world.

Beauty and the Beast?

[Papaya]

Blizzard's going downhill too =P

The lead designer for Starcraft 2 used to work for EA (Dustin Browder). EA, of all companies. He was responsible for amazingly balanced RTS games like Battle for Middle Earth II.

That was sarcasm, if you couldn't tell = (

[Silasj]

.L;1281109']So, when are we going to get our Guitarcraft II?;)

Holy shit I lol'ed!!!

[Vanamonde]

(there's *always* a dominant/submissive in these things and someone's internal culture gets crushed).

So true! This I have seen with my own eyes (in companies too boring to mention).

And there will be layoffs. Oh, gawd, the layoffs.

I mentioned this else where, but yall may not have seen it. I be an elder who has lost the fast twitch and these days anime is much preferred to gaming or even posting and chatting.

I use my PSP as more an iPod than anyelse these days. 2 gig is plenty for me. That H.264 codec RAWKS!

[Takeru]

Activision is in my top 3 worst video game companies along with THQ and EA (used to be Acclaim). I have never played any game by Activision that has been particularly remarkable. I don't like that they seemingly resort to licenses in order to make a profit rather then solid programming, expansive gaming worlds with lots of detail and backstory, developer talent and new ideas. Blizzard has taken part in revolutions in Strategy, Dungeon Crawling and MMORPG games, but what does Activision have to offer that nobody else can do? This seems like a really odd pairing.

EA never was Acclaim. Acclaim Entertainment went bankrupt, and Acclaim Games is a private company. Though I think your reasoning for this would be the BURNOUT series, which was moved to EA when they bought Criterion Games (The owner of BURNOUT) in Aug. 2004.

Money is the root of all evil.
The actual statement is "the lust for money is the root of all evil".

[siya]

haha, I was reading this yesterday while I was waiting for WoW to come back up from maintenince....Not really sure what the whole fuss is about though....From what I read, Blizzard said that nothing really is happening...None of thier games are changeing or anything. So could someone telll me the point to why they did this? I mean, someone must be getting something out of it...

[ToxicNarcotic]

It'll be fine. Blizzard takes good ideas and adds a great amount of polish to games than taking risky innovative ones. On that basis I don't think EA will try to make much of a fuss about how Blizzard goes about its business.

[Vexx]

Wow... none of ya'll have any (personal) experience with corporate mergers I'll bet :)

[Papaya]

Wow... none of ya'll have any experience with corporate mergers I'll bet :)

Of course not!
Big names merge, new (ugly) logo created, people get fired, and the world forgets a month later =D

[Tiberium Wolf]

Then we will be expecting soon a Call of Warcraft. :)

The games will suck our lifes away in much shorter period of time and more efficiently.

[aohige]

Wow... none of ya'll have any (personal) experience with corporate mergers I'll bet :)

.....Every corporate mergers I (almost) experienced have fallen apart due to monopoly laws. :heh:

[Fynal_Fyre]

Where's my World of Starcraft?

Actually, corporate mergers between game companies don't really concern me THAT much, 'cause sooner or later it really doesn't matter within the industry, but if the games stink.....:rolleyes:

[Aoie_Emesai]

Where's my World of Starcraft?

Actually, corporate mergers between game companies don't really concern me THAT much, 'cause sooner or later it really doesn't matter within the industry, but if the games stink.....:rolleyes:

Bah... We need Diablo 3! Stop the startcraft, warcraft nonsense, and start on Diablo 3, don't ya think so too? WOW is jsut plain boring now.

[Sakura_Kinomoto]

Lol This merge is gonna be awesome ^^ :)

[TinyRedLeaf]

Hellgate London = Diablo 3

No?

World of Starcraft, bring it on. For Aiur!

:p

[Casshern]

Hellgate London = Diablo 3

Agreed.

World of Starcraft, bring it on. For Aiur!

:p

Please, not another mindnumbingly simplistic, repetitive, highly addictive regurgitation of an old and overused recipe. You'd think the richest gaming company would risk coming up with something original once in a while...