Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by geerlingguy on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @08:57AM (#29979124)

And Halo, if we're counting seminal console franchises.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by zuppy on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:01AM (#29979188)

And Diablo. I'm worried for this.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by Frost1x on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:10AM (#29979327)

I'm hoping it just means Diablo 3 released sooner since Microsoft has a mountain of resources.

I'm curious how game development is under the large tech companies like Microsoft. Game development is notoriously recognized as a slave driving industry for the labor force. Massive tech companies, like Microsoft, aren't exactly known as places to slack in the software world, but they also don't seem to have as toxic of a labor culture as the gaming companies who pass mountains of costs to their labor to remain competitive (Amazon perhaps being the exception here).

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by rvba on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @09:26AM (#29979569)

Good news for you, Diablo 3 is already out!

(Itemization and damage looks very bad in Diablo 4 previews though - damage in hundreds of thousands and "strictly better" items instead of trade offs)

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by Frost1x on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:42PM (#29982753)

Correction, Diablo 4 (you can tell how much I play!). But thats disappointing to hear :(

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