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Microsoft has Closed the Activision Blizzard King Deal

ZoukGalaxy

Member
And we, people passionated by videogames as a form of art, will remember this day... as a terrible and sad day.
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And here a very personal message to liar Phil:
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I don't want them to make COD exclusive because I like full lobbies and sometimes turning off cross play while on Xbox you can sit awhile waiting to find a match

The bigger the player pool the better

Totally agree, why would you want to limit who you play with?! Now I do wish you could limit it to just consoles in the settings (PS/XB) since I have run into cheaters playing on PC more often than I would like. Fbh Fbh are you just wanting to kill the franchise?!

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/new-report-shows-call-duty-warzone-popular-consoles-pcs

According to the report, 42.1% of the total player base is on the PlayStation platform. 25.6% of players are on the Xbox platform, while the PC platform comprises 28.4% of the player base. The mobile platform has a mere 3.9% of players.
 

ManaByte

Member
sometimes turning off cross play while on Xbox you can sit awhile waiting to find a match

That happens on PS5 as well. It's a bug in MWII they never fixed. If you turn off crossplay it fucks you for Warzone on ANY platform. You have to enable it to get into a match.
 

Eotheod

Member
No tears, just disappointment...if Microsoft knew how to manage their studios and make them prosper then I wouldn't care, but look at every studio they have, all the game are garbage for the most part...Starfield was supposed to be this big stupendous game and already at this point I think most people are already like '...Meh'

It is one thing to take studios and grown them into something bigger and better, but Microsoft is just trying to buy their way to success which to me is just lazy
As I said before earlier in the thread if you have the skill set put your resume in. It does not mean a pundit can not punt, in that criticism can not be constructed, but I really doubt anyone here has the skillset to run a company like Sony or Microsoft.

It's clear there is a development pipeline schedule, and whether that is having trouble or not is debatable; however, the one thing that is clear is no one here would have any strong understanding or capabilities to run a company.
 

HeisenbergFX4

Gold Member
Totally agree, why would you want to limit who you play with?! Now I do wish you could limit it to just consoles in the settings (PS/XB) since I have run into cheaters playing on PC more often than I would like. Fbh Fbh are you just wanting to kill the franchise?!

https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/new-report-shows-call-duty-warzone-popular-consoles-pcs
You can disable it in COD setting from PS to play PS only in the MP but like ManaByte ManaByte said it will mess you up doing that in Warzone
 
As I said before earlier in the thread if you have the skill set put your resume in. It does not mean a pundit can not punt, in that criticism can not be constructed, but I really doubt anyone here has the skillset to run a company like Sony or Microsoft.

It's clear there is a development pipeline schedule, and whether that is having trouble or not is debatable; however, the one thing that is clear is no one here would have any strong understanding or capabilities to run a company.

I am just trying to say it is disappointing due to Microsoft's track record thus far, hasn't really been that stellar, and even though Sony has had quite a few really amazing games from their studios and knows how to manage and grow them, I would never want Sony buying a company like Activision either, I feel it is just too much for one company to have control of, it would be like Sony buying Take-Two Interactive, I would be just as pissed at a move like that because is screws over a large chunk of the gaming base on games that are that big.
 
You can disable it in COD setting from PS to play PS only in the MP but like ManaByte ManaByte said it will mess you up doing that in Warzone

I knew of that settings, but like you said it really limits the lobbies, then just need to have an option that is console only (PS/XB), I think that would solve a lot of the issues people have with the cheaters that you come across online.
 

HeisenbergFX4

Gold Member
I knew of that settings, but like you said it really limits the lobbies, then just need to have an option that is console only (PS/XB), I think that would solve a lot of the issues people have with the cheaters that you come across online.
Yeah I do wish we could limit it to just cut out PC players because of cheats but have to admit I saw more cheaters the first weekend with just PS players than I have this weekend with all platforms playing
 

ManaByte

Member
Yeah I do wish we could limit it to just cut out PC players because of cheats but have to admit I saw more cheaters the first weekend with just PS players than I have this weekend with all platforms playing
Ricochet doesn't do anything to Chronos devices and most PS4 players have one.
 

HeisenbergFX4

Gold Member
Ricochet doesn't do anything to Chronos devices and most PS4 players have one.
They started trying to go after those devices within the last 6 months or so, not sure how effective they have been though

I have said this many times here but while Ybarra was with Xbox this was something him and I talked about a lot because he would say that Xbox could 100% see people cheating in games using these devices they took a stand at Xbox they would let each games Devs decide how to handle them.

After he went to Acti I would ever once in awhile remind him of this and it took awhile but they started going after those devices

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/4/23669939/call-of-duty-warzone-xim-ban-suspension-warning
 
Resurrect the StarCraft brand. That is all I want.
I've spoken to Mike Ybarra about Starcraft during his twitch stream (yes Blizzard CEO streams occasion at twitch.tv/qwik ) about a year ago. His answer was that the Starcraft fans have not be forgotten and its a matter of time rather of if.

Even ran a dungeon with him in WoW and tanked it lol and played a few OW2 beta matches on his stream. His chill with the community.

Although I will tell you right now, I highly doubt Starcraft will return in an RTS form. It will most likely be third person or first person title.
 
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FoxMcChief

Gold Member
I've spoken to Mike Ybarra about Starcraft during his twitch stream (yes Blizzard CEO streams occasion at twitch.tv/qwik ) about a year ago. His answer was that the Starcraft fans have not be forgotten and its a matter of time rather of if.

Even ran a dungeon with him in WoW and tanked it lol and played a few OW2 beta matches on his stream. His chill with the community.

Although I will tell you right now, I highly doubt Starcraft will return in an RTS form. It will most likely be third person or first person title.
World of StarCraft
 
World of StarCraft
I would argue more in the sense of Destiny style. That would work very well with shooting gunplay mechanics. They did have a Starcraft Battlefield game in development that was very well recieved internally, but it got shut down by the higher ups for the sake of Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 development budgets sadly.

You could play as a Zerg, Terran and Protoss Ala Battlefield style. It was an FPS.
 

Ozriel

M$FT
I've always found it weird how a particular forum hates capitalism but loves it when MS gobbles up studios so they can save money.

A collective of global regulators say the deal in its current form is not anti-competitive, doesn't hurt competition and doesn't constitute a monopoly.

Under these circumstances, it's perfectly fine for people to celebrate benefits of the deal.
 

T-0800

Member
A collective of global regulators say the deal in its current form is not anti-competitive, doesn't hurt competition and doesn't constitute a monopoly.

Under these circumstances, it's perfectly fine for people to celebrate benefits of the deal.

Either you didn't understand what I was saying or I did a bad job of saying it. Probably my fault.
 

NEbeast

Member
I have no point as I usually don't I just remember when many here said these types of deals would never happen

And honestly I don't care one way or another about these acquisitions as I play everywhere and just play what games I want on the platform I want

Makes me no difference I have bigger things in life I would prefer to concern myself over
Are you trying to imply something? Again, it feels like you're talking nonesense. Nothing you said to me has anything to do with what I said. It feels like your true colours are coming out now.
"Bigger things in life"
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M1987

Member
If anything, people should be asking Sony why they can’t stream Xbox game pass on the PS5. Sony clearly not for the gamers.

Phones, tablets, computers, refrigerators, tv’s, are all on board and are Xbox products. Sony has it in them to be an Xbox too.

I’d be shocked if game pass doesn’t make its way to the Switch 2.
Why would Sony put Game Pass on the PS5? it makes absolutely no sense,and I don't see PS Plus on the Xbox
 

HeisenbergFX4

Gold Member
Are you trying to imply something? Again, it feels like you're talking nonesense. Nothing you said to me has anything to do with what I said. It feels like your true colours are coming out now.
"Bigger things in life"
bbc three oh bollocks GIF by BBC
Again I really have no point and true colors?

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Fox Mulder

Member
Surely they’ll fire back up the 360 backwards compatibility for stuff they can now access like Singularity or Wolfenstein.
 
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