Vivendi May Sell Activision Blizzard to Microsoft or Time Warner

[schnitter]

I support anyone who plans on buying Activition Blizzard and removing Activision tag off. Ever since Activision merger, all Blizz games are a pile of dog guano which only serves as money sucking games.

 

[gm0n3y]

I hope they just sell either Blizzard or Activision. That horrible merger has nearly destroyed Blizzard in the eyes of their original fans.

And if Actizard/Blizivision is bought by EA I'll start shopping for a bunker as the apocalypse certainly won't be far behind.

 

[bustapr]

vivendi has to be the worst owners on the planet to consider Activision a flop. with how Diablo and CoD are breaking sales records, I find it hard to believe they are losing money. matter of fact, alot of activision Blizzard games sell extremely well. Somebody over there is doing something REALLY wrong.

 

[Guest]

LOL, diablo must not be selling too good, even on a weekend you only find around 2,000 games. and most of them are with only 1 person in them.

That game flopped worse than ron jeremys dick in a loose pornstars vagina wishing to be a movie star.

 

[sp0nger]

i find it funny how one company owns blizzard, a talented developer and for the most part good to the community publisher, and then also owns activison, an exploit our developers at al cost and treat our community like shit by ruining great franchises like COD for a quick buck publisher.

Microsoft probably needs the exclusives give it to them over time warner

 

[Guest]

Craptivision is a blight on the Blizzard name to most companies that would most likely buy Blizzard. If Vivindi separates the two, MS might pick up Activision because it fits their portfolio and Valve would most likely pick up Blizzard.

Remember its not just buying a company its buying a company that fits into your portfolio. Activision is console market and Blizzard is PC market.

 

[rantoc]

I hope they split the company's apart and Blizzard get a responsible company that gives them freedom to run their business as they like, not how that activation crap Ceo Kontic keeps ruining it. After the Activision merger its been downhills for Blizzard.

1. SC2 - Sold in 3 (!) parts - WITHOUT LAN
2. D3 - Geez where do i even begin, is this seriously what Blizzard want to bring people after 12 years of waiting!?
3. WoW - Dying without any new content for well over 1/2 year, and that half year with just 8 bosses over and over making even Diablo 3's same storyline over and over more entertaining.

I hope this sale could bring good news in the end and perhaps even restore Blizzard back to where they were when the customers mattered more than maximizing profit at ANY cost - That is the Activision way not the old Blizzard!

 

[Shin-san]

Hm... I can't tell which of the two would be better. Microsoft tends to close down studios only to reopen others. Time Warner does publish good games, although TW tends to be more on the casual side like Lego games and Scribblenauts.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]hiruu[/nom]I thought MSFt should have bought Marvel[/citation]
After the Avengers came out I bet they wish they had too

 

[alidan]

why spin off a company that consistently brings in the largest profits of any game company, on a damn near yearly basis?

selling off the blizzard portion would be a realistic thing, at least when wow stops bring in profit.

 

[Guest]

bioware lols : )

 

[Sakkura]

[citation][nom]officeguy[/nom]Seriously... I didn't know they had such devices in 1853. Phonograph didn't come out until 1877 according to wiki. What did they have before then?[/citation]
It was founded as a water company, and didn't enter the TV business until the 1980s. The phone thing came along in the 1990s with the deregulation of the French telecom market. Then they spun off their old industrial bits and became Vivendi.

 

[Guest]

I'm very happy and proud to say I hope to see Microsoft buy this. Microsoft could do with some more games under their belt as they've had a few great titles(Halo, Rise of Nations, Age of Empires Online) and sure, they've had bad as well. I'm a X-Box and PC gamer, so I have no issues with this at all.

Goodluck Microsoft!