Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

Re:Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard by robertlagrant on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @08:10AM (#36693364)

Thanks for the reasoning.

My disagreement would be that you're comparing an installment with a franchise. The whole of the Elder Scrolls is bigger than Skyrim, although Skyrim was the biggest standalone seller. Elder Scrolls online has I think about 750k MAUs, at $10-$15/mo.

And, I suppose more fundamentally, why would MS turn down a good chunk of $3.6b for the dev costs of making a Playstation version of Starfield?

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Re:Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard by johnnyanmac on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @11:14AM (#36695768)

>My disagreement would be that you're comparing an installment with a franchise.

funny thing is that if you compared the last 15 years of COD to Elder scrolls, you're still comparing some dozen COD games to Skyrim and ESO. And I guess that one mobile game? 15 years ago is still a year after Oblivion launched.

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