Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard cleared by UK

Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by MobileVet on Friday October 13, 2023 @07:27PM (#37876714)

RTS is such a great genre. I know everyone loved StarCraft but I enjoyed Warcraft II and 3 more… along with C&C, Red Alert and Age of Empires. Not sure why.

Warcraft 3 was a great balance between micro and macro management due to the Hero concept. SC always just felt like a game of numbers… but I am sure I just wasn’t as experienced.

Regardless I would love it if the genre stayed alive and I am glad Age is continually updated and stable.

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by imbnwa on Friday October 13, 2023 @09:40PM (#37877403)

Ah, sweet memories of Helm's Deep on WC3 Bnet

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by EstesPark on Saturday October 14, 2023 @12:40AM (#37878128)

Wow, I completely forgot about Red Alert. That game was a blast!

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by bavell on Saturday October 14, 2023 @01:15AM (#37878252)

Chew on this!!

Awaiting orders.

Affirmative!

What a gem.

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by MobileVet on Saturday October 14, 2023 @08:40AM (#37880019)

Right? And that soundtrack! I could listen to Hell March without the game. They actually released the full soundtrack as a CD.

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by biomcgary on Saturday October 14, 2023 @04:00PM (#37883775)

I recently found an open source version that has been fun (https://www.openra.net/).

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by bigboy12 on Saturday October 14, 2023 @11:29AM (#37881255)

Ms bought Nokia - out of business

Ms bought Skype - useless as Zoom won the Covid era

MS bought Lynda.com- who?

MS bought LinkedIn- does anyone pay $90 a month to use it?

MS bought Danger - the best tactical keyboard mobile phone. DEAD

MS bought Halo vr system a $3509 pos that never got an update

Ms buys stuff , never making stuff.

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by davidmurphy on Saturday October 14, 2023 @01:39PM (#37882500)

I live near Linkedin HQ, and judging by their MASSIVE number of sprawling headquarters buildings, quite a few people do pay to use it

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by leosanchez on Saturday October 14, 2023 @01:52PM (#37882614)

> does anyone pay $90 a month to use it?

Some do apparently

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by mbrumlow on Saturday October 14, 2023 @02:13PM (#37882792)

LinkedIn is probably the only one that don’t belong on that list.

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by pphysch on Saturday October 14, 2023 @02:37PM (#37883026)

Who made/makes VSCode?

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by dagw on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:34AM (#37889223)

VSCode was an in house MS project

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by extraduder_ire on Sunday October 15, 2023 @05:01PM (#37893346)

Wasn't the initial codebase github atom? So, about as in house as edge2 (the current one) is.

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by dagw on Sunday October 15, 2023 @05:16PM (#37893461)

VSCode was released several years before the github acquisition, and is unrelated to atom.

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by amourgh on Saturday October 14, 2023 @03:58PM (#37883751)

Linkedin is used by every recruiter.Most of the recruiters pay. It has captured most of employment traffic

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by jollofricepeas on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:54AM (#37889340)

And enterprise sales teams use it a ton as well.

LinkedIn serves a few purposes:

- It’s where Fortune 500 middle management networks and brags about professional accomplishments.

- Its where enterprise sales people get leads and network with those middle managers

- It’s where recruiters go to find talent of any type

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by vissidarte_choi on Sunday October 15, 2023 @01:39AM (#37887171)

And then, MS bought GitHub, OpenAI...

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by sitkack on Sunday October 15, 2023 @01:43AM (#37887203)

Hotmail, DOS, Windows NT (Dave Cutler from DEC)

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by dagw on Sunday October 15, 2023 @08:39AM (#37889253)

I don't think NT belongs on the list as it was entirely developed in house. Sure the lead developer had designed an OS while at DEC and NT built upon his experience from that, but it was still a entirely new OS

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by sitkack on Monday October 16, 2023 @01:28AM (#37896202)

There was no in house talent behind it. Dave already knew what he was gonna build before he arrived. Yeah, compared to the others that came in wholesale, I think NT still counts as an acquisition.

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by aiscapehumanity on Sunday October 15, 2023 @01:49PM (#37891797)

MS AI research plus big game IP is a future investment

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Re:Microsoft $69B deal to buy Call of Duty maker Activision ... by darepublic on Saturday October 14, 2023 @10:17PM (#37886268)

I too delusionally hope for warcraft 4 (a good one)

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