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Merger Done: New Super Publisher Activision-Blizzard
Merger Done: New Super Publisher Activision-Blizzard
Gamersglobal reported about the decision of Blizzard and Activision to team-up last year in December. Now, all the paperwork is done, as the Blizzard webpage informs. The two developers are now completely merged into one company, you find them on NASDAQ under the ticker ATVI.
The two developers will not change anything in their stucture (yet), but they won't be competitors any more. On their FAQ-Site, they suggest that this will increase diversity and overall quality of their games, but that does not seem logical. Now, they will release only one Hack&Slay, only one strategic game, only one tactical shooter at a time, therefore reducing the number of choices gamers have. What do you think?
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I see your point about not being able to release competing games at the same time, but here are two counter arguments:
But I'm against the merger for different reasons, Blizzard is the only company I can think of that never released a title to make a quick buck, no mediocre titles in the mix whatsoever, all their titles from the last 10 years are successes, so I fear that Activision could misuse that good name to get a few titles out there, but I guess we will see.
What about Warcraft and Starcraft? Or did you mean turn based strategy?
Ghost was stopped, but could be again in development...
You're right I was thinking about turn based strategy, Warcraft is an RTS of course.
i can´t really see that blizzard would use their name to publish minor games. that´s just not what the brand stands for, and i doubt it ever will... just think of the already given example starcraft ghost, which was fairly advanced already. or the warcraft adventures, which were basically finished, but never published because blizzard thought it was not good enough. this might be a dreamy point of view, but i seriously believe in those guys and i don´t think activision can change their behaviour or simply use their name
I really hope you're right, it's just a fear that I have. And I'm not talking about really bad stuff like games for you mobile or something, but just mediocre stuff, like games that get a 6 out of 10 or something.
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