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They actually did join them in the war. Poland was attacked from both sides and divided up between the Soviets/Nazis
NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus
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Fake news! The Soviets had to move in to block the Nazis from conquering all of the former Poland, are you saying Comrade Stalin is a liar? The Secret Protocols are a capitalist forgery!
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I agree. It's like they want to ban people for having a favorite console, so everybody just has to pretend to be impartial like a referee in the world's stupidest sport.
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And there you have your answer as to why nothing useful ever results from politics. Any time there is a possibility of such a thing happening, you will immediately see it derailed by the most giant batch of retarded assholes the world has ever seen.
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Interesting little tidbit from Bloomberg about the Activision buyout. And by interesting little tidbit, I mean a crucial excerpt that everybody's going to skim over and disregard.
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So, let's get this straight.
Late last year, there's a massive pressure campaign that "started" from civil lolsuit filings about misconduct within Activision. Coming from the California DFEH and the EEOC, both institutions you can safely assume to be rife with activists, that got into a bit of a spat over the DFEH's misconduct in using previous EEOC employees with embargoed knowledge on that departments case for their own. Nothing shady there.
Bobby Kotick gets his own WSJ stink piece about shit that wasn't even sexual stretching as far back as 2006, where his involvement was either going with the firing of select individuals, or not. The latter case being on account of a lack of evidence.
Microsoft swoops in and takes advantage of that. But Kotick doesn't want to sell. At the very least, he doesn't want to sell to them. So much so that he surveys other companies. And there's no explanation as to why that is. The board doesn't give him any leeway, and they accept the deal at just more than half of what it would've been 11 months beforehand.
One must wonder whether a certain interested party was partially orchestrating this fiasco for their own ends. You might even wonder if the sects of a government that's getting a lot of lobbying money got some loose directions. But lol, that would be crazy, of course.
Microsoft (MSFT) to Buy Activision Blizzard (ATVI) in $69 Billion Gam…
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So, let's get this straight.
Late last year, there's a massive pressure campaign that "started" from civil lolsuit filings about misconduct within Activision. Coming from the California DFEH and the EEOC, both institutions you can safely assume to be rife with activists, that got into a bit of a spat over the DFEH's misconduct in using previous EEOC employees with embargoed knowledge on that departments case for their own. Nothing shady there.
Bobby Kotick gets his own WSJ stink piece about shit that wasn't even sexual stretching as far back as 2006, where his involvement was either going with the firing of select individuals, or not. The latter case being on account of a lack of evidence.
Microsoft swoops in and takes advantage of that. But Kotick doesn't want to sell. At the very least, he doesn't want to sell to them. So much so that he surveys other companies. And there's no explanation as to why that is. The board doesn't give him any leeway, and they accept the deal at just more than half of what it would've been 11 months beforehand.
One must wonder whether a certain interested party was partially orchestrating this fiasco for their own ends. You might even wonder if the sects of a government that's getting a lot of lobbying money got some loose directions. But lol, that would be crazy, of course.
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Do you really think Microsoft would do something shady like that? Doesn't seem likely to me. They're just looking out for us Gamers.
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Wait, so are we blaming the Jews or what?
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Designated Shitting Operating Systems.
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Very few companies would even be able to outbid the Big M. Only contenders in the gaming market are Google (Who shut down their game development division when it barely started, so LOL) and Amazon.
I really doubt they conducted this mass conspiracy, especially to save what to them would be a few pennies. More likely they saw another publisher with big franchises that could help Gamepass, and took advantage of the legal stuff going on.
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I don't know what other companies would have the digital infrastructure to support AB properties other than Microsoft. The warcraft community is dancing in the streets right now thinking their savior has arrived. All they really have to do is "not fuck it up" and they're looking at profiting off the deal in a relatively short period of time. Blizzard's IP alone is loved by millions, if not tens of millions of people. It's been dying over the last decade, but only due to mismanagement.
The entire Star Wars IP sold for 4 billion. Warcraft/Call of Duty is apparently worth about 17 times that.
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Nintendo probably could have bought them with that secret cash fund I was always reading so much speculation about as the basis for Nintendo's ULTRA POWERFUL secret next gen machines on GAF/ERA.
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Phil Spencer is the chief of mismanagement. Jason Schreier wrote a piece about that as it pertains to Halo Infinite. He tried wrapping it up in feelgood bs, but he essentially writes out that Halo Infinite was a mess of development that resulted in 2/3s of the game getting cut out and STILL getting delayed into 2021 a year past due, released in state that, though not buggy, is extremely barebones. This is their premier franchise.
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It's also worth mentioning that that 68 billion dollars Microsoft is shelling out is only the beginning of their costs. They've effectively employed, what? 10,000 people overnight?
I wouldn't get too excited about an increase in quality from Microsoft's camp, between spending billions, and effectively giving away games at the same time. Quite the opposite.
One of Reee's insiders (yes, yes, I know - this one's been relatively accurate) said this and honestly it makes sense. I'd argue that you can already see the effect at play.
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Even with Halo's shortcomings, it is still miles ahead of the other AAA first person shooters released last year. It really helps that the entire AAA market has turned into absolute shit lately, because you don't have to be amazing, you just have to do better than your competition. EA/DICE can't make a decent game to save their life anymore, and even they're abandoning what made the Battlefield franchise good so they can draw in more CoD players.
Blizzard does have about 10k employees, but that's a somewhat low number considering how many positions they've cut to increase profit over the years. Even then, the teams that develop and maintain the games are much much smaller, and you can expect a lot of layoffs due to redundancy with existing Microsoft positions (HR, marketing, lawyers, middle managers, etc). They're not going to be keeping all 10,000 jobs. They were making enough money with existing IPs and subscription fees to pay the bills and pump tens of millions into the pockets of the upper crust. Restructuring the company will likely make those profit margins a bit higher, and there will be an explosion of WoW subscribers with the next expansion simply for the fact that it's being released by not-Blizzard. If they change absolutely nothing, WoW is still bringing in roughly $30,000,000 every month based on the lowest estimates of current subscribers, not including the successful microtransaction structure that's been recently added for mounts and level boosting.
I'm not entirely sure how taxes work in this situation, but Blizzard is in California where Microsoft is in Washington. If they owe taxes based on where the company is headquartered, they will be paying significantly less in taxes. Normal people taxes in WA are about as bad as CA, but WA is pretty good about giving major industries billions in tax cuts to prevent them from leaving the state where CA won't.
I'm not taking sides and have no skin in the game. I don't play Blizzard games anymore and haven't for a few years. I just think that this will probably turn out very profitable for Microsoft simply based on the massive demand for Blizzard IPs that aren't attached to the stigma of supporting a company that's in the news constantly for being assholes.
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Sounds more like Bonnie Ross sucks at running 343i from that article, and the top managers there don't really know how to handle Halo, and the folks keep leaving. I can't really fault Phil on that as the game was taking 6+ years to develop, can't keep funding a game forever. Certainly can't cancel it either, that would destroy 343.
"Gamers, notoriously difficult to keep happy"
Lmao oh fuck off Schreier.
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I don't know he just seems like yet another "dah essjaydubbya's are roonin moovies" grifter to me. At this point the terms "SJW, Soy, Woke" all make my eyes glaze over the same way shit like "Problematic and Cis" do
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I fault Spencer if only because he's ultimately the captain of the ship, and has been in Xbox leadership for almost 15 years. He should know that steering the Halo ship is paramount.
Also worth mentioning that Schreier ran this fluff piece about 343i but essentially slated Ken Levine for changing his game over a similar amount of time. Is it a coincidence that he's barely ever written one of his studio hit pieces on a Microsoft party? Really gets you thinking.
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"They also complain so they're just as bad.
"Meanwhile:
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If that's what you got from my quote you're no better than the people of Reset Era."They also complain so they're just as bad.
Meanwhile:Scene where the troon's UwU GF murders someone for misgendering xir:
Until you get a AAA video game with a scene with a fat magatard killing shaniqua over stepping on a red hat, saying they're "the same shit" makes you look like a dilating tranny.
Complaining isn't the issue it's the way he does it it's the buzz words and the exact same calls to action that "The other side" does that somehow is a-okay when he does it. SJW and Problematic have the exact same meaning in those circles, "Ignore what this person says they're wrong" when you're shutting down the discussion then you don't deserve to have an argument.
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"Wah, some loser complains on the internet," who gives a flying fuck. Issue is when they start getting pandered to, and guess what, only one of the two sides are getting pandered to. You can jerk yourself that in principle they're the same all you like, but to pretend they're the same in practice makes you look like a disingenuous faggot.
Now let me enjoy my trooncore aesthetic in Far Cry 6, chud.