Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by cwkoss on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:40PM (#29987791)

I think "the mobile revolution" is a joke and never materialized. 95+% of mobile games are unoriginal clones with layers of mechanisms to reduce fun unless the user pays. People who enjoy games have largely abandoned mobile, save a handful of decent titles that were ported from other platforms.

Mobile-first gamers are: people (mostly kids) who are so naive about games they will accept garbage (or cant afford a better gaming system) and whales who enjoy spending large amounts of money to move up the leaderboards.

Mobile gaming C-level's loved talking about the mobile revolution for a decade, but I really think it was all optimistic nonsense in service of their fundraising.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by oneeyedpigeon on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @07:50PM (#29988406)

I don't think they meant just in terms of gaming, but the mobile revolution in terms of how smartphones took over the world and Microsoft missed the boat.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by cwkoss on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @08:08PM (#29988551)

Ah, that's fair. I was working on a service ancillary to the gaming industry during the big hype, so I mostly associate the term with the push toward mobile games. Definitely valid outside gaming.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by pjmlp on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @05:27AM (#29991922)

Consumption on the go world, yes.

Mobile revolution for doing actual work on the go is mostly done in laptops, and Windows is still the champion on that regard.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by p1necone on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @07:53PM (#29988433)

(Simplistically) Business people think about money, gamers and ground level game developers think about games. The "mobile revolution" as told by C-level executives was about the former, and it's been a screaming success.

Mobile games were never going to replace more traditional games because it's a totally different market, but companies don't really care about that anyway - they might not have /understood/ that mobile games were never going to supplant traditional console and PC gaming, but they didn't need to because they made fistfuls of cash anyway.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by aceki on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @07:41PM (#29988338)

Mobile gaming is mostly crap, sure, but it is still quite profitable. I think the parent was referring to having a successful mobile platform like Google or Apple so that Microsoft could skim their commission off all those mobile games.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by tata71 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @08:35PM (#29988745)

Who just bought Zynga?

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by thirdsun on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @03:42AM (#29991293)

Take Two. And Microsoft just bought King via Activision.

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