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[intheinbetween]

Activision owned the IP. Now MS does.

Nope, afaik FS has the ownership, however it won't be hard for MS to get an agreement with FS to include Sekiro on GP

 

[GHound]

Activision owned the IP. Now MS does.

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[Reizo Ryuu]

Activision owned the IP. Now MS does.

Do they?

 

[Little Mac]

 

[adamsapple]

What a sight.

 

[VolticArchangel]

PhilTheGamer™ rn:

 

[Fabieter]

God have mercy with us gamers. We will need it in the future.

 

[TheCed]

Good buy Crash, Good bye Spyro.
Those were the only Acti games that I really cared about.

 

[graywolf323]

If the games are on Game Pass then they can be played by anyone with access to a web browser, regardless of the device. So yes, that does bring them to more people.

 

[Fabieter]

Who else will they need to compete?

It's not finished until they have majority of the control its like Microsoft is operating.

 

[ManaByte]

PhilTheGamer™ rn:

MS owning EA Sports FC and making all the profits off it being on PS might cause some fans to take extreme measures IRL.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

The acquisition thread is dead, moving to here now

 

[AnotherOne]

 

[8BiTw0LF]

 

[ToadMan]

In the wake of Redfall, Starfield and Forza this feels like a deflated balloon right now.

It's not riding on 3 triumphant game releases that secured the future of xbox. More like someone flushing a toilet a second time and now ABK are also circling the drain.

I guess it may be fun to watch MS murder more well known studios... may be?

 

[exstuhsey]

What a sight.

Brilliant day for gamers, we won.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[chigstoke]

Just give me a Pro Skater 3 or Underground remake and that'll do me. You know it makes sense MS.

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Denton]

Blizzard back catalogue, call of duty campaigns and sekiro on pc gamepass, thx

 

[Sephimoth]

Wow, all those studios. So we should be getting at least a new MS first party game every month or two, right?

...right?

 

[firegamer273]

finally end of an era .

 

[splattered]

Ok that was a pretty fantastic trailer lmao

 

[Fabieter]

You know what I hope this push Sony to release more game on PC

This wont change anything at sony. I dont even think they will react with a publisher themselves and actually a normal human wouldn't want that.

 

[Little Mac]

CoD single player campaigns on gamepass when?

 

[T-Cake]

Right, so how do I get to play Candy Crush (Microtransactionless Version) on Game Pass Ultimate?

 

[clarky]

Bobbys only staying till the end of the year? Interesting.

 

[exstuhsey]

MS owning EA Sports FC and making all the profits off it being on PS might cause some fans to take extreme measures IRL.

Don’t think they’ll have enough tears for that, most emptied the tanks in this saga.

Just give me a Pro Skater 3 or Underground remake and that'll do me. You know it makes sense MS.

Crash Bandicoot

 

[Ivory Samoan]

How MS come across as the lord savior: fire Bobby Jan 1 2024, somehow reboot CoD to be innovative yet still sell gazillion, Relaunch Starcraft as a turn based RPG like a Sci-Fi BG3.

 

[Shubh_C63]

Surely...SURELY things will get better for Xbox 4 years from now, right ?

So many studios. I am sure they will make excellent games rivaling the likes of their competitor, right.

 

[ManaByte]

CoD single player campaigns on gamepass when?

There was a reason why the fixed the matchmaking for all of the previous gen games and they're all BC.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Jayjayhd34]

So sad after starfield I have no faith in MS

 

[plip.plop]

Who else will they need to compete?

 

[DenchDeckard]

That's a very good point, hopefully he steps(get's pushed) down now?

Yeah, his time is done. He will get this year out the way, and I think at the end of the business year, next year he is done.

 

[splattered]

No they don’t. Activision published the game outside of Japan. They don’t own the IP.

Unless they bought the IP like they did with gears and haven't announced it yet...

 

[KungFucius]

Woohoo. No more insane fanboy posts showing absolutely no clue about anything and we can move on.

 

[T-Cake]

Shit, we need Craig!

 

[JackMcGunns]

They will still cry and say that they can’t compete:

Ironically the acquisition was being called a Monopoly. The definition of a monopoly is that it creates an unfair advantage where no one else can compete. So when you say "They" will cry and say they can't compete, you could be predicting someone else doing the

I'm just glad it's over and we can move on. I heard MS wants to revive the Guitar Hero franchise which I'm all for and a massive catalogue of classic games will be coming to Game Pass which is great for GP subscribers. GP is often called a crazy deal that's too good to be true, or even go as far as calling it an unsustainable model as is, can't imagine how that deal will look with a list of ABK games added to that list

 

[adamsapple]

Love or hate the situation, they did create an absolutely amazing trailer for the completion.

Someone's likely been sitting on this for months.

 

[Humdinger]

I wonder how much it really cost them, once you factor in all the lawyers and all the time spent behind the scenes.

I'm not a fan of any of Activision's games, so the acquisition doesn't bother me. I'm glad it's over with. Hopefully this will sate MS's appetite for a while.

 

[Warnen]

 

[M16]

its a great day for gaming.

 

[ManaByte]

Hopefully this will sate MS's appetite for a while.

 

[Jigga117]

This was the same thing said 10 years ago about anyone buying Activision…..just saying

 

[FoxMcChief]

Ok. who is next?

 

[Kittehkraken]

its a great day for gaming.

 

[Dr. Samuel Hayden]

Kotick apparently leaving at the end of the year

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Honestly just glad that it's finally fucking over.

100% this.

 

[adamsapple]

The end of an era, the main acquisition OT closed at page 1670. We didn't reach the fabled page 2000.

Phil's statement on the acquisition completion, posting here since the other thread is closed now.