Blizzard Entertainment and Microsoft

[raventach]

Is Microsoft going to follow through with their acquisition of Blizzard? Or is it's downhill spiral gonna leave all Warcraft players in the same sad situation that China saw earlier this year?
Is Steam capable of acquiring it? In the state it is in, it hypothetically shouldn't cost what Microsoft offered. Where do you think Blizzard is headed, and should Steam make an offer?

[Start_Running]

They likely will. They don't seem to have lost interest , rather its SOny that's vbeen money wrenching the thing.

As for whether or not Valve would acquire it...no. It would be a bad thing.

[Crazy Tiger]

Steam is a program, so there is nothing for it to acquire. You mean Valve. But why would ActiBliz be worth less, there hasn't changed that much for them in the past year or so. But Valve can't afford ActiBliz. Why would they do that even, they don't have the ambitions to be a giant developer/publisher.

I do hope that the acquisition doesn't go through. Microsoft already is a juggernaut, making them bigger doesn't seem to be a good thing.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Escrito originalmente por raventach:

Is Microsoft going to follow through with their acquisition of Blizzard? Or is it's downhill spiral gonna leave all Warcraft players in the same sad situation that China saw earlier this year?
Is Steam capable of acquiring it? In the state it is in, it hypothetically shouldn't cost what Microsoft offered. Where do you think Blizzard is headed, and should Steam make an offer?

Valve does not have enough to make an offer.

[Bee🐝]

Yeah, Valve can’t afford Activation Blizzard.

Anyway, Microsoft is appealing the CMA ruling - they might win since everyone else is making the CMA ruling look freakin’ silly. Also, the UK government is totally going to apply some indirect pressure.

Even if the CMA finds against them again, Microsoft might just go “screw the UK!” and buy it anyway. They wouldn’t want to - it’s not ideal at all - but it’s possible. Maybe run the companies as two legal separate entities in the UK?

Fingers-crossed it goes through, I want Sierra’s catalog out from under A&B - it’s been totally wasted.

[wuddih]

*Activision Blizzard
*Valve

Valve can't buy Activision Blizzard.

MS is one of not many candidates to be able to do something with this decaying minefield.