• slazer2au@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Hope it doesn’t. MS has a history of anticonsumer practices that goes all the way back to the 90s.

      No matter what they say to the regulator MS will stop releasing any ABK existing IP onto Sony and Nintendo consoles.

      Even though it will not directly effect me as a PC gamer it is still a bad thing for the industry as a whole.

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        1 year ago

        MS is the last hope to safe some of the classic Blizzard titles as the state of Activision Blizzard as it is simply can’t get any worse.

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            What can they do that ActiBlizzKing cannot?

            Literally anything.

            There is currently a handful of devs doing the occational balance patch for SC2 otherwise the game is complelty dead from the developer side. On the MS side, AoE2 and other even older games are doing so much better.

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              I haven’t played it but I have read that Diablo 4 has been mostly well received. I guess there’s been a fiasco about one of the updates to it, but that’s not something unique to Blizzard and theoretically could be fixed in another update, no?

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      Me too, I know it’s not a popular opinion on here (for good reason) but this should put more pressure on PlayStation and drive competition there, make gsmepass more attractive and hopefully shake things up at Activision blizzard which could go either way, but worth the risk given how shitnthey currently are.