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Microsoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition, Call of Duty now part of Xbox
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this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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I wonder if MS is more interested in the Activision side. MW/King etc. I think blizzard is just a baggage addon at this point.
Activision has a ton of old unused IP's under their name. Could be a treasure trove if handled correctly.
But have no doubt, Blizzard is part of the prize. It's just a matter if MS can turn the current "climate" around somehow.
Im of the boat that believes innorder to boost gamepass subscription numbers for shareholders, WoW subs will eventually merge into gamepass
I doubt it.
WoW is too old and there's more profit in keeping the subscriptions separate. You might get a couple more expansions though. Whatever is in the works currently.
More likely they'll be trying to bank on D4 and Overwatch to start with. Then, maybe, move on to something else.
Either way they'll try to milk whatever newest franchises are out for as much as they can before doing anything. But current WoW isn't likely to be a flagship for anything.
Its less about immedoate profit and more about pumping up gamepass numbers under one umbrella for investors to see a large number increase. Its part of the reason why Xbox Live Gold has been rebranded into Gamepass Core. Microsoft supposedly is under their sub projection (despite having about 40M subs) and trying to pump the numbers as much as possible.
Overwatch makes no sense given its a feee game. Unless your implying gamepass pays for the battlepass, as the game moving to gamepass would be a detriment on console as it does not require gamepass core to play (as its free)
I am uncertain as to the cost/benefit projections for doing that.
Yes, they get to bump subscriptions a bit. But the game would effectively go f2p in the process. And anyone that already pays for both, will not add to any numbers.
I don't know the current player count for WoW. Only MS can estimate as to it's potential benefit.
My money is on them just migrating everything to their storefronts to begin with and then waiting to see what effect it'll have.
I'm with you and I don't think the other person really gets just how expensive a WoW subscription is. It will never be integrated into Gamepass, it makes far too much money on its own.
It's possible they might bundle up all the expansions and make the entire thing "free" with gamepass. They're all bought and payed for as it is.
It'd make it seem attractive and it costs MS $0. And they get to keep the monetization model that's already in place.
Having their cake and eating it too.
The only ones eating the check, so to speak, would be everyone that already purchased all the dlc.
It seems like a appropriate mega-corp thing to do.