Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard! Will this change WoW?

hey guys dev here and i got some really exciting news not something i was expecting to make a video on anytime soon but as a world of warcraft content creator one of my biggest fears is activision and blizzard going under and ceasing to make games well today we've got some huge news that changes all of that so microsoft have just bought activision blizzard for 68 billion us dollars so this is the announcement from an hour ago i've just caught wind of this so today we're going to talk about what it could mean really quickly for the blizzard franchise world of warcraft and all the other games that they make so when candy crush and cod become your actual job microsoft activision blizzard and there's a press release here so microsoft toolkit activision blizzard to bring joy to the community of gaming to everyone across every device you know are we going to see a world of warcraft mobile or is it just going to continue to be candy crush over on my discord link is in description below we've been discussing this one since the news has come out and one of the major jokes is maybe they just deem classic wow not worth it anymore and we they close it down and we all get to play candy crush together and soon my videos will be um hey guys dev here and today we're going to look at how to maximize your combo in candy crush so i hope not um let's just go over this really quickly so microsoft will acquire activision blizzard for 95 per share in an all cash transaction valued at 68 billion uh inclusive of activision blizzard's net cash um so when the transaction is done it'll make microsoft gaming the third largest gaming company in the world so bobby kotick will continue to serve as the ceo of activision blizzard and he and his team will maintain their focus of driving efforts towards efforts to further strengthen the company's culture and accelerate business growth once the deal closes the activision business will report to phil spencer ceo of microsoft gaming so my hopes for this are for for the most part that i understand microsoft do run a pretty clean ship and it would be really good to see microsoft taking over and allowing an environment that fosters you know the employees of blizz to make good games you know i think they've been trying to weed out some of the questionable behaviors and stuff i think another company coming in um and taking over taking the reins that you know have better values in the in the company could be really good because at the end of the day i think just about every single person that watches my channel on a daily basis you just want to play the best best version of wow for some of us that's retail for most of us on this channel at least it's classic whale i would love to see you know classic to continue through wrath of the lich king once we're done with tbc into cata or mop if that's the direction they chose i'd also be really happy with um an alternative expansion after wrath you know with all new content that we've never seen and i think some of the season and mastery bosses that have been coming out recently really show that blizzard are capable of designing different bosses but i have had very little faith that wow is gonna recover and get to a good place under its current leadership so hopefully with these changes we can see wow's return to greatness and i know there's other games in there as well like overwatch 2 for instance has been in development for ages um w4 still isn't out um i don't know what microsoft's plans are in terms of the mobile division obviously it's not something that really appeals to me i know some of you may be mobile gamers but for me candy crush and double immortal i've never really been a fan of mobile games and that's not to say that i have never enjoyed mobile gaming early on before everything became this time gated um mess of microtransactions and whatnot i thoroughly did enjoy some mobile titles but they were video games on a mobile not mobile games which you know everyone today these days um relates to to microtransactions and whatnot i also understand that microsoft have spent a lot of money on this and i probably need to make make money from this so i i do hope that that doesn't involve um you know charging the players through through micro transactions and i hope the general game design around things like classic can remain relatively uh microtransaction free for me personally it's not so much about the money involved in in the transaction i would rather play a higher sub price than have um cosmetics and and crap running around the game for me world of warcraft is very much a game that you know you earn your your stripes you earn your armors and even like a cosmetic armor really detracts from that for me personally i know some people just love to swipe swipe by whatever um hopefully as well we get better support in terms of customer service as a lot of you know right now gm support is is absolutely atrocious in world of warcraft i think out of all products that i subscribe to um probably um blizzard games have the worst customer service out of any of my digital products that i subscribe to uh so if you like my youtube account i can get on with a with a live chat in a two minutes normally if i need any assistance uh it's you know wow is lodged 20 tickets before somebody will actually talk to you um and i don't even think you can get a live chat um as well uh what else have we got like just quality of the game so like fixing bugs and not having things go out better communication from people um would be another huge push that i would love to see um and actually like we've got this expansion this uh patch story coming out in two weeks and we don't even know the time that the patch comes out so you know the guild's trying to plan around things uh like that and almost impossible so yeah there's a lot of changes that could be for the good for the game but i could also see bad changes happening so we're gonna have to wait and see it's all speculation at this point however i'm really excited about activision blizzard um having a good backbone with microsoft behind them now it probably means that they're gonna have the the funding to support the game support the staff hopefully the staff can have an environment where they can make great games again because for me world of warcraft is by far my favorite um ip and i want to keep playing well until i grow old you know and not everyone might share those same views but that's what i look forward to you know playing well with my friends for me it's my social life it keeps me in touch with all my friends it gives me that mental dexterity of challenges through raiding and pvp and solving problems with all my mates so let me know what you think about this one in the comments guys this was just a quick and dirty one today uh hit subscribe if you haven't done this vid i pump out heaps of wow classic content and i'll see you in the next one

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Published: Tue Jan 18 2022