Microshit/Xbone Thread

[Guest]

funny thing about this is that Bungie offered themselves back to MS but Phil thought they weren't worth what they asked for.

[Guest]

and WOW

Isn't WoW dying & losing subs to ARR?

[Kugelfisch]

WoW is dead as fuck and lost most players to Final Faggotry.
But Warcraft itself is still a profitable IP.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

They've been bleeding players for so long and so consistently that they've just stopped providing player numbers.
The only thing that managed to reverse this at least for a little bit were their klessik servers.

[Guest]

the obvious things people are banking on are:

- scrap all diablo 4 work so far and actually make it a mature game again
- make WoW non-canon and create Warcraft 4
- Starcraft 3, World of Starcraft or "Starcraft Ghost attempt number 25; would all be very succesful if made well. Which goes for everything on this list btw. If they dont add talent everything is doomed, blacktivision doesnt know how to make good games. If they get new teams in there might actually be hope.
- Modern Rock n Roll racing game (perhaps even online with microtransactions to customize your "doombuggy"
- Lost Vikings mobile game
- Heroes of the Storm was actually pretty fun (if you like mobas) , they could relaunch that.
- New Prototype game - these were actually fun games that felt like an evil superhero open world game.

And thats just from the top of my head. If microsoft actually investest more after this deal to hire talent and make the studios good again we might actually get some great games out of this.

[Guest]

microsoft actually investest more after this deal to hire talent and make the studios good again

You're gonna be disappointed

[Guest]

microsoft actually investest more after this deal to hire talent and make the studios good again

You're gonna be disappointed

Im hoping greed will win out this time lol. If you make such a huge transaction to acquire something why not throw in another 500 mil to make sure it turns out good games again so you actually start making your investment back. If not you just flushed all the money in the toilet.

[Guest]

Firstly Microsoft can't even hire decent people to run their own offices, never mind Activision's. Secondly, their buying it is more about A) pulling fellow Epstein islander Kotick's fat out of the fire and B) preventing anyone else from having their IPs than it is about actually making products people want to buy. I'll remind you that Activision own Crash Bandicoot and Spyro, two of the Playstation's biggest games. It's not inconceivable Microsoft would pay that much just to prevent Sony from having those back

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

- scrap all diablo 4 work so far and actually make it a mature game again

As if their take on Diablo 4 would be any better.

- make WoW non-canon and create Warcraft 4

Why would Microsoft want competition for Age of Empires 4? They already have in-house competition with AoE2.

- Starcraft 3, World of Starcraft or "Starcraft Ghost attempt number 25; would all be very succesful if made well. Which goes for everything on this list btw. If they dont add talent everything is doomed, blacktivision doesnt know how to make good games. If they get new teams in there might actually be hope.

Again, why would they want compeition for AoE4? And they might not even be aware of Starcraft Ghost.
Even if they are aware, a Starcraft Ghost in Current Year would probably just be some generic sandbox thing with lackluster stealth mechanics.

- Modern Rock n Roll racing game (perhaps even online with microtransactions to customize your "doombuggy"
- Lost Vikings mobile game

They probably don't even know those were a thing.

[Complicity]

microsoft actually investest more after this deal to hire talent and make the studios good again

You're gonna be disappointed

Im hoping greed will win out this time lol. If you make such a huge transaction to acquire something why not throw in another 500 mil to make sure it turns out good games again so you actually start making your investment back. If not you just flushed all the money in the toilet.

They clearly are going to (or hoping to) get their investment back by keeping the plug of WoW's life support in the outlet, releasing a woke PoE clone with more grind and less effort than vanilla Diablo 3, and shitting out a woke Call of Doody every year.

WoW is dead as fuck and lost most players to Final Faggotry.
But Warcraft itself is still a profitable IP.

This is all that remains of that IP:

They've been bleeding players for so long and so consistently that they've just stopped providing player numbers.
The only thing that managed to reverse this at least for a little bit were their klessik servers.

And it didn't last long, since they put paid boosts and store mounts in those too.