Activision Blizzard Stockholders Approve Microsoft Acquisition

Good news. This is a good thing for both Microsoft and Activision. Would be nice if it all got wrapped up early, unlikely I know.

Dawg... Insane. The beginning has begun. Can't wait to see the future.

Just make sure Bobby goes out.

I'll be shocked if this doesn't go through. Joe Biden is all talk.

One step.closer to.getting Bobby Kotick out.

It is cute Kotick thinks he's going to be around.. not that I would care if I was him though.. his buyout is like 200M or something.

What I find funnier about the antitrust guys, is that Acti on their own is a much more likely to engage in less than above board activity.

Having them assumed by another company is actually a win.

@RevGaming He Gone!

Had a feeling this would be approved. I just wish that the deal would go through sooner so we can start getting these games into gamepass.

Excellent step forward 😎

Very difficult to find some Anti-trust regulation when there are so many other Publishers and studio's making games. Its not as if MS games are ONLY available on MS branded hardware that 'forces' people to buy as they are available 'everywhere' except Nintendo/Sony hardware who actively block them from providing a way to play 'their' games!!!

New Studio's are being formed quite regularly too. Its not as if people only have 1 choice where to play Starfield, but they'll only have 1 choice if they want to play Spider-Man!!!

In time, the whole 'platform' thing could be obsolete with all games streaming from some service based option - and MS are 'Netflix' - but that didn't stop Disney+, HBO, Amazon Prime, Apple etc all 'competing'. Steam is a 'competitor' too but MS doesn't block them from Windows..

All this talk about maybe CoD only being on Xbox - so what? it doesn't mean that the competition can't make a competitor for their platform with anyone of the 'hundreds' of other studio's around the world!!

Its completely different from nVidia trying to buy out ARM which would give them a 'big' advantage over the ONLY remaining competitor on the market. If there were only '3' companies that make and publish games (like MS, Sony and Nintendo), the nVidia equivalent would be MS buying Nintendo which would likely see Sony struggling to compete because not only have you 'reduced' the choices for the Consumer, you have also made one Company significantly bigger/better and able to control the market. Sell games/hardware cheaper to 'kill' off competition etc

Even with 50 studio's, Sony, Nintendo, Square Enix, EA, Ubisoft, Tencent, 2K, Bandai Namco, Capcom, Sega etc etc are still competing, still publishing games etc. From a Gaming perspective, the deal only makes MS '3rd' - behind TenCent and Sony!!

Some people seem to think that 'gaming' is just the 'platform' - Xbox vs Sony and scared that they might not get their 'beloved' game on their 'preferred' platform - but ignore the fact that there are LOTS of Publishers and many of them have numerous Studio's making games 'exclusively' for that Publisher. As stated, its not as if MS would have 'no' competition with this deal!

Yeah here we go, nearly there.

Need to allocate 10% for the big guy to make sure it goes through.

What "trust" is this creating. We're down to 3 mobile phone companies, and that's ok. We're down to 1 satrad, and that's dandy. We're down to a handful of meat production companies, all of them foreign owned, and most of them part of mega conglomerates that also encompass the rest of food production and that's just peachy. We were down to depending on the Russians exclusively for space transport, by decree of the government itself, until God-Emperor Musk saved us.

But two big video game entertainment publisher out of 8 plus dozens of smaller ones is suddenly a trust problem? If we're going to start calling 7 major players and a few dozen minor players a "trust" can we start talking about food, energy, material commodities, or the fact that nearly the entire electronics sector is manufactured by a single Taiwanese company and a single Korean company?

And can somebody please talk about Google and Amazon while we talk trusts?

Those Sony tears are delicious..

Great news I'm looking forward to it going through.

@Bmartin001 careful, your fanboy is showing.

PlayStation gamers will still get the games so no one besides the fanboys on twitter actually care.

I hate that Microsoft are buying publishers and hope that Sony don't do the same thing.

I'd rather play games like Sonic on Xbox and Spyro on PlayStation.

If the companies need to buy publishers then they should remain multiplatform but thd console makers just earn money from the games.

Hopefully it won't go ahead.

@stefan771 you are happy for Bobby Kotick to remain in control? Activision Blizzard employees are celebrating a future under Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond. You would rather their lives remained a living hell?

@ShadowofTwilight22 Sony has and still is doing the same. Supposedly Sony is in talks to purchase from software

@GunValkyrian

Um no, Sony hasn't done the same thing because Sony hasn't bought any publishers.

Studios absolutely but not full on publishers like Microsoft is doing.

@ShadowofTwilight22 what's the difference? It's all being done to keep particular games off of each other's consoles

@GunValkyrian ....

A publisher is comprised of many studios which is comprised of thousands of developers and numerous high named IPs, they also publish games for studios that they may not own.

A studio is a singular entity that needs a publisher to publish its games.

FromSoftware don't publish games for other studios whereas Activision and ZeniMax have.

@ShadowofTwilight22

Comparing Activision or ZeniMax to Fromsoftware isn't even close to being the same.

Fromsoftware is comparable to Double Fine, Ninja Theory, Obsidian etc.

While I can’t wait to see Kotick out of there, I hate that he will be doing it with a Scrooge McDuck smile as swims in a pool of money from this deal. He’ll be laughing his way to the bank. With that said, I’m excited to see what Activision looks like under Spencer.

No surprise, this was expected, rejecting this deal was probably gonna cost the majority of shareholders (institutions) a lot of money.

@Ile

Except Phil said Activision games aren't going exclusive so no, outside of fanboys, no one cares.

@Ile

I feel like you're speaking to me directly in terms of "welcoming" except I already own every platform.

The fact that people cheer about publisher buyouts just so their precious plastic box restricts other longterm players of multiplatform games is so sad.

@Ile

Careful, your fanboy is showing.

Some people would much rather own their games instead of renting them. (Loved Game Pass and used it religiously before you start accusing me of saying it's nothing but fodder.)

@Ile

"The best deal in gaming" comment absolutely came off as fanboyish, like you were trying to sway me into wanting it.

It's not a win-win for anyone but the Xbox diehards. These are long running series that have been multiplatform for decades, they shouldn't just go exclusive because Microsoft is deadset on buying publishers.

Oh and before you accuse me of supporting it on PlayStation, I feel the exact same way about Final Fantasy.