Microsoft to purchase Activision Blizzard for $68.9 billions

[Retreater]

Did they pay in microtransactions?

 

[Sepulchrave II]

Kevin Spacey, I'm looking at you.

There has to be a joke about him narrating on a Boeing 727, Bill Gates, Microsoft Flight Simulator, and a certain Caribbean island here somewhere, but I can't think what it is.

 

[Zaukrie]

Cash. That's a lot of cash.

 

[embee]

Did they pay in microtransactions?

You have them confused with EA.

Microsoft's modus operandi is subscriptions.

 

[Yora]

What a weird sum. What's another 1.1 million give or take?

So they paid seven times Activision's yearly revenue. When do they expect to make a profit from this purchase?

 

[Jer]

Nevermind - misread something.

 

[Mirtek]

So either Microsoft is getting a great deal, or a cesspool. Guess that's what the due diligence is for.

MS just wants IPs, not people.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

MS just wants IPs, not people.

You're probably right.

Which also sucks, both because I think Activision has just hired a bunch of people (because of all the people that jumped ship), and also because I love love love Diablo, and I'm a playstation person, not an XBox dude.

 

[Umbran]

because I love love love Diablo

Mmm. Diablo.

Maybe we now have a hope of new Diablo, without the shadow of that corporate culture hanging over purchases.

 

[MNblockhead]

Are old people less likely to be eaten by a grue?

Yes because we are not too cool to carry a torch. Especially to carry a torch for the good old days when all the PCs didn't have darkvision.