Read Xbox chief Phil Spencer’s memo welcoming Activision Blizzard employees to Microsoft
Read Xbox chief Phil Spencer’s memo welcoming Activision Blizzard employees to Microsoft
Xbox chief Phil Spencer will visit new Activision, Blizzard, and King employees soon.
Well, it's official. Microsoft bought Actiblizz.
Today is a good day to play. We have completed the acquisition of Activision Blizzard and are welcoming Activision Blizzard and its businesses to Microsoft Gaming.
Activision, Blizzard, and King publish some of the most played and most beloved franchises in gaming history, from Pitfall to Call of Duty, Warcraft to Overwatch, Candy Crush Saga to Farm Heroes Super Saga. By combining Xbox with Activision Blizzard’s skill, knowledge, and amazing legacy of games, we will bring the joy and community of gaming to even more players around the world.
We are eager to learn from their creativity, exchange insights and best practices, and empower our new colleagues to bring their visions to the widest possible audience. And today, we officially start the work of bringing more groundbreaking games to more players than ever before and across new platforms from mobile to cloud streaming. We also begin the work to make Activision, Blizzard, and King’s muchloved library of games available in Game Pass and other platforms — we’ll have more to share in the coming months.
We couldn’t be more excited that Activision Blizzard employees are our colleagues, co-workers, and teammates. Bobby Kotick has agreed to remain in his role through the end of 2023, reporting directly to me, to ensure a smooth and seamless integration. We look forward to working together as a unified team and we will share more updates on our new organizational structure in the coming months.
I‘d like to give a very special and heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped make this acquisition possible. We couldn’t have accomplished this without your dedication.
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be visiting the Activision, Blizzard, and King offices, along with members of our Gaming Leadership Team. We’ll have the opportunity to welcome our new colleagues at our next virtual all-hands for Xbox employees, and for the greater Microsoft community, we’ll discuss this and more in the November 8 session of the Company Strategy Series.
Together, we can unlock a world of possibilities for players and creators.
Phil
Just wait for the massive layoffs that's already happening in the gaming industries 😔
Sony will buy EA or some shit and the corpo wars will begin.
Let them eat each other. I'll be over here playing indie games with actual depth, real care, still getting updates for free years down the line.
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Poor sysadmins trying to make sense of the new environments and joining them together.
If it helps you avoid users it's a plus.
I'd take deciphering the Rosetta code over that any day.
At least Bobby Kotick is going
I guess. It's not like he’s being thrown out on his ass though. Which is more than the actual workers can say. You know this merger will require "consolidation and remove redundancies" or whatever bullshit term they like using.
Unity and Sony are looking for a new CEO...
This is absurd... they made a trailer for their corporate merger: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYU4q594LJ0
"Look at all the games you love! Please forget we're a massive corporation which moved 70 billion dollars closer to a monopoly uwu"
That was awesome. I imagine if I worked for Activision Blizzard, that knowledge of Bobby Kotick leaving plus that welcome video would give me some feels.
Let’s hope they can revive WoW and Overwatch from the garbage they’ve become.
Why do people hope that Microsoft will miraculously revive dormant/mismanaged IPs from their new acquisitions, when they've done nothing in the past 10 years but lay to rest and mismanage their own IPs?
They released the Series X three years ago now and are yet to release a single game on the platform that people care about.
Being that both IP’s are ongoing I’m hoping that going forward they’ll at least increase access to the game. I’m not expecting them to revive it to previous status.
I’m just hoping with Kotick out things will stop getting worse and a lot of the IP’s end up on GamePass.
And as far as first party stuff goes Flight Sim, Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite all have been fairly well received and are at the very least console exclusives. Minecraft isn’t going the way that a lot of the Java players like but it’s much more accessible and on damn near every device known to man. And that IP is still selling gangbusters even with Legends and Dungeons being not fantastic.
I need to know that WoW is garbage, because I used to love that game way too much.
WoW is definitely not what it used to be. Classic isn’t that bad.
I would really love an "overwatch classic". Used to love that game so much in the late 2010's, they just had to drive it to the ground.
The mating of the dinosaurs. This is the same shit that happened to record labels the minute people were able to record quality sounds in their own homes. What happens when all the gaming industry is rolled under some parent organization?
I’ve seen lots of comments about Microsoft engaging in an acquisition war with Sony but isn’t it really against TenCent?
Why not both. Take away content from Tencent and fight with Sony for gamer attention at the same time.