The problem is not about being closed. It is about headhunting the right people and convince them to abandon their present situation and risk to work years for who? MS. Obviously MS would have to be stupid to end a studio that they have been in control for a few months now. But questions remain. Who wanted that studio? Now that Kotick is gone, who knows what he promised to the people his company headhunted to create it? Don't get me wrong, if they are pushing for it they probably have a reason, but
SlimySnake
has a point in saying that MS brutal cost cutting will have consequences. We will see, but what I am curious about is that the blog post was made by anonymous staff instead of some leader from Activision. Are they still learning to work with/under MS or are Activision not pushing their executives in the limelight by design?