Microsoft to acquire Activision for $69B is all about Metaverse

[paxmao]

It is not just about the metaverse, but rather a combination of franchises that reinforce MS xbox sales - e.g. they could decide to public CoD only for their gear, also they buy expertise in creating games, universes and stories successfully from Blizzard and Activision and then, yes, they leave a door open to the metaverse. MS is known for usually not being the best, but having a marketing and client channel control that is like a train. They can afford to let other create the market and fail if it is so required and then come and take the whole market.

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[dothebeats]

I think we are connecting the word "Metaverse" with cryptocurrencies that much. The metaverse is, IMO, a word that describes interconnectedness of existing services and platforms through a single link. It isn't necessarily related to cryptocurrencies, as those who use it to brand what they do don't even have tokens or cryptos dedicated to it. As for MS acquiring Activision, perhaps they can step up the games that the studio is producing. Not saying that they haven't produced anything good, but at this point most of what they are coming up with are cliche games that have entirely predictable storylines.

[davis196]

There is an impression in the Linux community where everything that Microsoft touch dies like Yahoo and Skype. Will Activision die too?

You forgot to mention Bing. The only difference is that Bing was created by Microsoft,rather than being a separate company,which is acquired by them.
Jokes aside,I don't really think that Bing is dead.They are just totally behind Google in the search engine niche.The entire MSN portal is totally behind Google.
Anyway,paying 69 billion for a gaming company seems overpriced.Microsoft have Xbox,can't they just develop and expand Xbox even further,rather than spending billions on a gaming company?
Maybe there's something in the bigger picture,which I'm not seeing.
But yeah,this news definitely doesn't have anything to do with the metaverse concept.

[Looper_U]

Metaverse on the blockchain will definitely have tokens but not metaverse in gaming world of Microsoft so don't expect some kind of crypto coin, it's really a good news for Xbox and pc gamers but I doubt that all Activision games won't reach other third party consoles as well

[kryptqnick]

I think Microsoft is simply profit-oriented and believes that even such a big price will pay off. It's unreal that they can actually afford a purchase like that, and where are those antitrust laws now? This is just another step towards monopolies on the market of digital products. We have a few big players like Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple and Alphabet (Google's parent company), and they are killing the competition, leaving no chance to smaller companies. At the same time, I wonder what Microsoft wants to do in terms of the Metaverse because Facebook called dibs on that first, and having multiple metaverses kind of defeats the whole point.

[bakasabo]

With all this trendy play-to-earn I think we will see implementation of NFT in next Blizzard games. World of Warcraft, MMORPG with the largest amount of players, suits perfectly. Besides actual game, there is a pet wars in-game activity. NFT suits perfectly in this cute pets game. Just a 100% hit. Hearthstone - another perfect match for NFT implementation. What can be better than implementing NFT card in a card game.

I will call it a win-win scenario for everyone. Microsoft will earn from it. With Microsoft money and fresh politics, gamers will also win (because more and more often players scold Blizzard for controversial decisions). Cryptocurrency will get a new popularization push.

[doomloop]

with this Activision + Metaverse, I think this is going to be a good decision for them to develop. Activision has lots of games where gamers are actively playing and the Metaverse which we can consider to be the future. This might just be one of Microsoft's best investments and projects to develop and get successful with. Unless they become very aggressive again and deploy KYC in games. You think?

I think it is about working with the trend, because other companies are also going into metaverse so as to be part of the emerging Web 3.0. And you can also see the new acquisition as a bid to diversify their investment. It is right move for me and if they are able to manage it well it will not die off like Skype and yahoo.

[Leviathan.007]

I don't remember exactly when this happened but a few months ago Activision started to do some partnership with the blizzard and they even changed the name into blizzard Activision but the partnership failed and as far as I know, there were many steamers that quit streaming their games because of they after this they lose their reputation and as an easy bite they were ready to be bought by a giant like Microsoft, in the other hand Microsoft seems to be interested with Metaverse so that was a good idea for them to use this chance and acquire Activision so this way they can have strong step in Metaverse.

[tygeade]

This is the most expensive acquisition of Microsoft since time and we can't help speculating how much the metaverse tokens will be when Mircrosoft finally launch thier own in the metaverse. There is an impression in the Linux community where everything that Microsoft touch dies like Yahoo and Skype. Will Activision die too?

But with this Activision + Metaverse, I think this is going to be a good decision for them to develop. Activision has lots of games where gamers are actively playing and the Metaverse which we can consider to be the future. This might just be one of Microsoft's best investments and projects to develop and get successful with. Unless they become very aggressive again and deploy KYC in games. You think?

Microsoft just bought a company for the staff and the rights basically. Activision holds so much IP and thats just too much to give up. When you have that kind of rights, you could literally go with any other method and use those IP's to make money. Imagine having pokemon rights, you could ignore all the ones made so far and just focus on what you can make in the future and that would still be awesome.

This is not exactly about metaverse at all, but it is also about everything, literally everything. If you know what you are doing then microsoft should be able to start regular games, continue old ones, get new ideas, metaverse, movies, and many different things to be fair.

[stompix]

I think we are connecting the word "Metaverse" with cryptocurrencies that much. The metaverse is, IMO, a word that describes interconnectedness of existing services and platforms through a single link. It isn't necessarily related to cryptocurrencies, as those who use it to brand what they do don't even have tokens or cryptos dedicated to it.

Exactly and I would go even further, the metaverse was never about cryptocurrencies or NFTs or anything like this, some projects grabbed the buzzword and did a full rebranding from the ding hype of Defi to Metaverse tokens even without a plan how they would make this metaverse.
Playing diablo or growing jpg monkeys, none of those are about a metaverse.
They will just use Blizzard's knowledge and resources to actually try and develop something that could be called a metaverse, not that you;re suddenly going to trade shitcoins on all games owned by Activision.

And no, the current games are not going to be destroyed by some shittokens:

It is unclear whether Microsoft’s metaverse play for Xbox will include the introduction of NFTs, with Spencer stating in November that he felt the experimentation happening in NFTs was more “exploitative than about entertainment.”
Spencer noted that if the Xbox Store were to support NFTs, the company would actively weed out any nefarious behavior or content.

I don't remember exactly when this happened but a few months ago Activision started to do some partnership with the blizzard and they even changed the name into blizzard Activision but the partnership failed and as far as I know, there were many steamers that quit streaming their games because of they after this they lose their reputation and as an easy bite they were ready to be bought by a giant like Microsoft,

What a bunch of nonsense.
Vivendi  (Blizzard and Sierra) and Activision merged in 2008 and they have been like that for 14 years.
Easy bite at 69 billion?  That's the same value BMW is quoted for.