Activision/Blizzard MERGER

[Vanamonde]

Originally Posted by Vexx

(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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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.

Originally Posted by Seditary

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]

Originally Posted by Vexx

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]

Originally Posted by Vexx

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.

[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.....

[Aoie_Emesai]

Originally Posted by 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.....

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!

[Casshern]

Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf

Hellgate London = Diablo 3

Agreed.

Originally Posted by TinyRedLeaf

World of Starcraft, bring it on. For Aiur!

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...