Xbox Finally Owns Activision, What Happens Now? | Spot On

Smartest way to go is t let King do what they do. Total hands off. They are the number one mobile company and they make an insane amount of money and they did it without any help from Microsoft so, leaving them alone to do what they do is a no brainer.

I think their strategy is to keep things the way they are, having most games be multiplat and slowly adding them to Game Pass and even more slowly, eventually making them only available on Game Pass - like very slowly, as in a decade or two. I'm betting their main goal is to have Game Pass on all platforms, Nintendo, PlayStation - anything with a screen and an internet connection. Microsoft already offered once to put Game Pass on PlayStation and they were told to piss off. The more IPs they buy up, the more enticing it will be to have Game Pass on other platforms. It's going to get harder and harder for Sony and Nintendo to not say yes to Game Pass on their platforms. It may take a very long time but I'm betting they will bite eventually.

Don't care. Microsoft hasn't put out anything good in YEARS. All of their biggest IPs fall flat except for forza. Gears suck, Halo sucks. Everything Microsoft touches sucks.

Lets not kid ourselves, for MS to have paid that much they had their hands deep in the data and sale figures. They surely know they will recoup those numbers within a decade at least. There is so much that can be done now. All the characters & maps from all their franchises are fair game for being placed in COD games now.

My take on what will happen is that one by one you will see the COD games disappear from the digital stores, not immediately but over time. And the only place to play them will be Gamepass. They worked out their numbers & GP at $20/mo/COD player is an extreme amount & oh yea it is going that high!! Mark my words, that is their end game!

Uncle Phil will come out with his big grin & spew the we are happy to collaborate with our newly acquired members & the workers in the background will be like...I am not bleeding for this company & half-heartedly deliver the games. Devs were doing this before with driven passion to see what they can accomplish in the digital arena, but now it is more driven by a quicker buck with less effort in the AAA arena...and this is consuming the industry!!! I have stopped buying all online only games & hit the breaks on game purchases in general & I have never done this before and it sucks and is sad really.

I don't have a lot of faith with Microsoft keeping Activison IP multiplatform considering Redfall and Starfield were planned for PS5 as well. They have the 10 year agreement for CoD, but unless other deals are made I don't see it. Phil has even made comments that make it sound like future Bethesda games will continue to be Xbox/PC affairs.

My problem is Microsoft rushes every game.

Crackdown3,Sea Of Thieves,Redfall.

And BonnieRoss & 343 shoulda been fired after Halo4..

All Xbox needs to do with Activision is this. They need to treat Call of Duty and their monetization like the American police force. As in stop putting so many resources and development in it. And start spreading the money into more important areas.

Because they literally moved the Tony Hawk, Prototype, Transformers, Spyro, and even Crash Bandicoot devs to work on making more CoD games. As if we needed more Call of Duty. Also, we need them to make CoD bi-annually. Because really? Who's buying CoD every single year? It was weird & dumb back then, and it's still weird & dumb to do so now.

And, we need them to stop with this Mobile game-style DLC nonsense in their AAA games. It's pretty much ruined OW, Diablo, WoW, and Call of duty. If I want to transfer my character to another server, I shouldn't pay money for that, WoW. And if I want a character skin, I should be able to just unlock it if I play it enough, instead of only being able to buy it, OW & CoD. And if I want cosmetic DLC it shouldn't cost $25 for one set of gear, Diablo.

And lastly, they really need to give us a WoW2. Because the WoW story now is non-existent. It's just some game with no point to play at all anymore.

I wonder if MS had any second thoughts in the last couple of months, Blizzard has manage to kill two of their biggest IPs this year, Which leaves only COD as a cash cow for MS to make their $70 billion back on.

Microsoft...where IP's go to die :(