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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by WorldMaker on Friday October 13, 2023 @03:30PM (#37874555)
One thing I see as an ancient PC Gamer is that Activision also sits on one of the largest hoards of IPs. Not just "cool" IPs from today's games (a lot of people are mentioning Activision's odd/bad stewardship of Blizzard, of course), but Activision bought a lot of the classic publishers in its history as a massive M&A shop. The legacies of Infocom, Sierra, Knowledge Adventure, Davidson, and many more both well known and almost forgotten to history developers and publishers have all been locked into Activision's forgetful vaults. It's such a huge swath of classic PC games. Some of that catalog Activision eventually allowed onto at least GOG (with GOG allegedly doing a lot of the preservation work to make them run), if not Steam, but there's still so much of gaming history that Activision has either claimed to have lost (No One Lives Forever, as one commonly discussed franchise) or just seems disinterested in the IP they own because they can't figure out how to build mobile games from it.

I don't know if Microsoft will be a better custodian of all that gaming history, but as the company most synonymous with the PC today, maybe they will. (If so, among other possibilities PC Game Pass could get very interestingly different from Xbox Game Pass.)

Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by CobrastanJorji on Friday October 13, 2023 @06:37PM (#37876373)
Are you saying I might see Torrin's Passage 2 now?
Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by WorldMaker on Friday October 13, 2023 @07:16PM (#37876654)
I also kind of wish to see that. Al Lowe is beyond retired at this point, but maybe Microsoft money can buy at least outlines of his four (!) proposed sequels.
Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by imbnwa on Friday October 13, 2023 @09:43PM (#37877418)
Can you imagine a Leisure Suit Larry in 2023
Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by CobrastanJorji on Saturday October 14, 2023 @02:03AM (#37878426)
I regret to inform you that the most recent original Leisure Suit Larry game, "Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice," came out in 2020 (2021 on console, 2022 on mobile).
Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by imbnwa on Saturday October 14, 2023 @03:24PM (#37883439)
Wow
Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by TillE on Saturday October 14, 2023 @05:52PM (#37884578)
If you're making a Larry game that's tame enough to be allowed on mobile/console stores, why even bother at that point.