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[Chukhopops]

They did it, the fucking madmen did it.

Shows you can achieve anything, even triple the size of your gaming division revenue in less than 10 years, as long as you have passion.

Great job to everyone involved.

 

[Bernardougf]

People really think that they will get sequels and remakes of ABK past games ? Under this MS management? Because of this acquisition? ...

 

[Banjo64]

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

Sekiro 2 by the team who bought you Saints Row reboot - I’m wet.

 

[ManaByte]

Kotick apparently leaving at the end of the year

 

[ArtHands]

 

[rofif]

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.

What is this cringy shit?
listen to this music - we just spent 70bil.
They talk about home and shit.... The even shot crash and spyro lol

 

[adamsapple]

 

[mansoor1980]

should fire lulu as well

 

[Lucifers Beard]

You are more than welcome to submit your resume to Microsoft outlining your methods of reparation for studio output.

Dead serious, I think I'd do a much better job than them at this point. Their output has been fucking awful and they've been getting away with being shit at delivering great games for years.

 

[Lokaum D+]

What a sight.

Trash/Trash/Trash/Trash/Super Trash/Very Good/Trash/Good/Ok

Good/Trash/Good/Ok/Trash/Good/Super Trash/Ok/Good

 

[8BiTw0LF]

Shit, we need Craig!

 

[Luipadre]

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.

 

[VAVA Mk2]

Put ABK stuff on GamePass NAO! I have 6 TB of storage on my PC that needs moar gamez.

 

[tmlDan]

Since regulators allowed this, let the bloodbath ensue. Any other acquisition by Sony should be allowed no matter the size.

And any future xbox buy will be down played as small and meaningless in comparison so they'll let that through too.

im gonna sit here while gaming is slowly destroyed.

The best part is that COD will soon be sold for what its worth, $9.99

 

[demigod]

Congrats xbox fans

 

[Thyuda]

Great, even more franchises for MS to ruin.

 

[Bernardougf]

Kotick apparently leaving at the end of the year

 

[buenoblue]

It's a big bet by Microsoft.

 

[//DEVIL//]

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

Kinda sucks to be honest.

Regardless of who he is as a person, his management skills are unquestionable.

I am fearing what will happen as management when he is gone.

MS is shit when it comes to management

 

[Ansphn]

End of an Era for COD

 

[Reckheim]

That's a shame, always sad when you see a trillion company allowed to get infinitely bigger.

Hopefully MS does a good job actually managing these studios. They'll definitely need the subs to grow.

They did it, the fucking madmen did it.

Shows you can achieve anything, even triple the size of your gaming division revenue in less than 10 years, as long as you have the money

Great job to everyone involved.

fixed it for you.

 

[NeonDelta]

Just add the damn Call of Duty games to Gamepass already, I haven't played the last two campaigns yet. I would doompost about how Microsoft is going to ruin Activision Blizzard, but they really haven't released anything good in years, so it's not like there's anything left to ruin there.

my thoughts exactly

the best thing they've done recently is the tony hawk remaster

 

[Dusktildawn48]

So many tears

 

[alphachino]

The definition of quantity over quality.

 

[GinSama]

We reach a point that people are even calling out for Ms making a trailer about the acquisition...

Cry me a river ahahaha

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

 

[clarky]

Kinda sucks to be honest.

Regardless of who he is as a person, his management skills are unquestionable.

I am fearing what will happen as management when he is gone.

MS is shit when it comes to management

They need someone like that, Xbox management come accross as far too soft for their own good.

If they give the job to Sarah Bond then we are fucked.

 

[jumpship]

They did it, the fucking madmen did it.

Shows you can achieve anything, even triple the size of your gaming division revenue in less than 10 years, as long as you have passion.

Great job to everyone involved.

As long as you have passion, commitment and $80 Billion dollars lying around you can get anywhere in life.

 

[jorgejjvr]

Finally. Now on to the next one

 

[Kerotan]

It's crazy how much MS has already bought up from the industry and the general reduction in quality from their output. Activision is basically just cod these days but it's going to see a very slow decline. The fact it will remain on playstation for 10 years will help slow that decline.

You'll see them to everything for growth though. Verdansk will be returned, there will be remasters of old black ops games. There will be new black ops and modern warfare games but they'll only work for so long.

If the series declines and if MS are stupid enough to take COD off playstation in 10 years then it will go the way of halo.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

They did it, the fucking madmen did it.

Shows you can achieve anything, even triple the size of your gaming division revenue in less than 10 years, as long as you have passion.

Great job to everyone involved.

Passion? This is a joke post right?

69 billion passions

 

[Riky]

Beautiful.

 

[adamsapple]

Finally. Now on to the next one

I know which way we can go.

 

[phil_t98]

Since regulators allowed this, let the bloodbath ensue. Any other acquisition by Sony should be allowed no matter the size.

And any future xbox buy will be down played as small and meaningless in comparison so they'll let that through too.

im gonna sit here while gaming is slowly destroyed.

The best part is that COD will soon be sold for what its worth, $9.99

No it should be checked like this one has, just because this has gone through shouldn’t mean any future deals shouldn’t be given as much time to be looked at.

Or you happy with Microsoft just buying EA without any scrutiny as well?

 

[Snake29]

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

Imo....a pretty boring list of games will be added. More then 95% of the games are just some old games.

 

[BlackTron]

My jaw dropped at Phil's victory tweet.

That is all.

 

[Kilau]

I’m so sad

that my meltdown post is stuck in epic locked thread.

 

[Spukc]

Time to boycot bill gates /s

 

[Sephimoth]

Testing ChatGPTs new image feature

 

[tmlDan]

No it should be checked like this one has, just because this has gone through shouldn’t mean any future deals shouldn’t be given as much time to be looked at.

Or you happy with Microsoft just buying EA without any scrutiny as well?

The precedent has been set, future acquisitions won't get scrutinized.

This was a major mistake by them, thats the reality. This is nothing personal from me, this is what has happened.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Can't wait to see how many fuck ups MS will make with this.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Add those ABK games to GP MS. And to think Sony snuck in a PS sub plan price hike of 33% over Labour Day weekend.

 

[alphachino]

Meanwhile, shitty-ass State of Decay 3 is not scheduled to be released until 2027 - a 9-year development cycle. Good luck.

 

[Chukhopops]

As long as you have passion, commitment and $80 Billion dollars lying around you can get anywhere in life.

Passion? This is a joke post right?

69 billion passions

Why don’t you go and get 70bn from MS management since it’s so easy?

They went from 7bn to 16bn revenue without the ABK acquisition. That’s how you manage to convince the people who can invest - not the other way around.

Anyway today isn’t the day to be salty.

 

[Fart Knight]

 

[Lokaum D+]

well, i could care less, since i have a PC and PS5, i can enjoy all 3 plataforms.

 

[alphachino]

Can't wait to see how many fuck ups MS will make with this.

Certainly will provide far more long-lasting entertainment than their game offerings.

 

[SEGAvangelist]

Gonna read through the epic thread and laugh, now.

 

[Mephisto40]

Add those ABK games to GP MS. And to think Sony snuck in a PS sub plan price hike of 33% over Labour Day weekend.

You realise this possibly means the cost of gamepass if going to go up substantially don't you?