Blizzard entertainment and Activision to merge

[Malbojia]

Well wait it's Vivendi Universal and Activision merging. Not just Blizzard.

[Punio4]

Money talks :). I think Blizzard is getting too greedy, I guess millions in revenue monthly means nothing. Gotta go for the gold!

"WoW coming to consoles Q4 2008!"

/signed

[Valerus]

World of Call of Duty anyone?

:blink:

[Mrcookjr]

Bah, I'm done with Blizzard until D3.

[PL_ Veteran]

Wow, this is huge :woot:

[KZWings]

Not exactly sure why else that these companies would merge besides money and that Blizzard wants to delve into the console market a little more.

EDIT: And official Press Release: http://blizzard.com/press/071202.shtml

Edited December 2, 2007 by KZWings

[Dark Ride]

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[hotdog666al]

Yay for Blizzard, Lost Vikings ftw.

[Slimy]

blizz has said many many times before they have no plans on porting wow to console

I'm not saying it is coming but it would be stupid to just take their word for it. Starcraft Ghost. Need I say more?

[Ayepecks]

:|

I was just about to post this... crazy! :wacko:

Now it's only a matter of time before all the EA haters jump ship and start hating the new power :laugh:

[Huleboeren]

ActiBlizz sounds cooler - now they will bankrupt because of a stupid name! tsk tsk

But bring on WoCoD :p but no dragons please :(

[Tha Bloo Monkee]

Wow. Blizzard was always one of my favourite game makers, I hope this won't ruin them or their games! :no:

[revvo]

Blizzard has always delivered kickass games that were delayed for good reasons. Activision also published many great games based on the Quake 3 engine like SOF2 and the COD series. The merger of two good companies won't necessarily create a better company, or a poor EA-like performing company. It all depends how they'll work together, but both of these companies are successful and not hated like EA which is a giant that just shoves badly made games at us and makes employees work 80 hours a week.

[Leo Natan]

World of Duty; Spanning over 60 years of warfare; Coming Q42008 :p

[Phantom Limb]

Deckard Cain: Strapped and Reloaded.

Follow the master identifier Deckard Cain in his new FPS/RTS/MMO hybrid epic, set to come out the same day as Starcraft Ghost and Duke Nukem Forever.

[GuJu]

This is great if you want EA to get off its big ego.

[meningitis]

i guess starcraft 2 is gonna be cancelled now :blink: :blush: :laugh: :D :( ;) :rolleyes: :huh: :o :( :laugh: :p :p :p ;) ;) :blink:

[Ayepecks]

Wow. Blizzard was always one of my favourite game makers, I hope this won't ruin them or their games! :no:

Blizzard's been owned for quite a while by Vivendi, and if that company didn't ruin them I see no reason why this merger will. But I'm sure some anti-corporation people will say it's going to make all their games crap. :laugh:

[TheDreamX]

Not exactly sure why else that these companies would merge besides money and that Blizzard wants to delve into the console market a little more.

EDIT: And official Press Release: http://blizzard.com/press/071202.shtml

Ahem?

Anyway, this is awful. Blizzard was just fine doing their thing by themselves (with the tiny Vivendi looking in from far away) slowly, yet productively. Now, they're going to have a huge conglomerate watching over them. I don't care what they say now, quality will suffer when Activision decides to send some of their off-project programmers over to Blizzard HQ and we WILL be seeing slight hints of ownership in games. I read a joke somewhere about being able to purchase a happy meal in Warcraft. Mark my words: it will come to this.

Oh yeah, and Activision Blizzard is the sh******* name they could possibly come up with.

[Colin-uk Veteran]

Threads merged.

[Zoue]

(with the tiny Vivendi looking in from far away)

Tiny Vivendi?! :blink: You're kidding right? Vivendi is a worldwide multi-business corporation worth billions of dollars. There's nothing tiny about it. Vivendi has invested millions into Blizzard, they've had quite a lot to do with the worldwide success of WoW. This merger alone is worth $18.8 billion.

[rajputwarrior]

looks like ea has got some competition

[1Frothy]

Is this going to mean higher quality titles at lower prices? Otherwise I don't see why anyone really has reason to get excited.

[Shadrack]

It may mean more game spin offs from Blizzards assortment of big name titles. Not sure if that would be good or bad. I would like to see more of Blizzard style games at a more regular release schedule.

[1Frothy]

It may mean more game spin offs from Blizzards assortment of big name titles. Not sure if that would be good or bad. I would like to see more of Blizzard style games at a more regular release schedule.

Does Blizzard do anything but Starcraft and World of Warcraft? Not a huge assortment there or choice of genre.