Microsoft might have purchased someone, maybe

I think your misreading my point, I don't care about Bungie or Activision. I'm pointing out how cringe worthy your posts are whenever anything like this happens.

Panic buy? A deal like this will be months, maybe over a year in the making.

Destiny is the 2nd highest grossing FPS ever behind Call of Duty and the first game brought in 500M in the first week .
Which price would not be overpaying?

A quick Google suggests that Destiny and Destiny 2 have made something in the region of $2-3 million dollars a month of ongoing incoming (that's outside of sales). Over their lifetime, that's a pretty good chunk of cash and the way gaming looks to be going, only going to get more profitable.

Not sure how anyone could look at that and think the game is a let down or Sony are overpaying.

Also, I can see why the timing of the announcement makes it look like a tit-for-tat purchase, but as others have said, a corporate buyout of that value will have taken a LONG time to put together. The due diligence alone will have taken months. This announcement will be result of a lot of work, not a snap thing.

Did I say that the deal was done in 2 weeks?



MS are buying left and right meaning Sony had to do something quickly. If MS hadn't purchased studios then Sony wouldn't own Bungie right now.

To give baihu a minuscule amount of credit, this can obviously be a reaction to the recent purchase. Sony won’t have found out about this from the front page of eurogamer, they will have known about it the second talks started.

Make an announcement, sure.

Make the purchase? No way.

Jim Ryan flicking through his phone, shit shit shit, gotta do something. Ah these guys will do. "Hello is that Bungie? Fancy selling to us for £3.8 Bill? No more, no less."

"Yeah, go on then mate".

"Sorted, byeeeeeeee".

I obviously know hee-haw about mergers and acquisitions but the destiny games seem to have brought in easily 1 or 2 billion (the 500M from the first week of D1 + sales plus monthly income etc) so the price doesn't seem mental to me.

Why do you people care if it's value? If they bring the games and the quality who gives a fuck.

baihu1983, why do you think Sony "overpaid"?

Deals of course are already in the making for a long time. Still, it all seems very opportunistic timing wise. 

(And both concerning and slightly depressing imo...)


How the Activision deal got done (from NY Times 19/1/2022)

Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal to buy Activision Blizzard is a blockbuster bid to transform the tech giant’s present and its future. If completed, it would be Microsoft’s largest-ever deal and the biggest all-cash acquisition in history. For such a momentous deal, it came together relatively quickly, we can report.

Microsoft seized on Activision’s troubles. Last summer, Activision was dogged by accusations that senior executives ignored sexual harassment and discrimination in its workplace, a controversy that eventually engulfed its C.E.O., Bobby Kotick. The company faced pressure from all corners — including from Microsoft, which said its gaming division was reviewing its ties to Activision. But the tech giant kept in regular contact with Kotick.

In December, with Activision’s stock down sharply, Microsoft reached out to Kotick with a takeover bid. Kotick dismissed the offer, but — eager to steer his beleaguered company to a safe home — told the software giant to come back with a better offer. Microsoft did, beginning a weekslong sprint to hammer out an agreement.

As part of its due diligence, Microsoft looked into the workplace accusations and determined that they were largely in the past, and that the controversy was manageable. That said, Kotick is expected to step down as Activision’s chief once the deal closes.

It’s a big bet on gaming and the internet. Almost immediately, adding Activision and its nearly 400 million monthly users would bolster Microsoft’s position in the lucrative video game business as it competes against Sony and rising powers like Amazon and Apple. Some gamers, who were unhappy with Activision in recent years, said the deal could reverse a decline in the quality of the takeover target’s games.

But longer term, Activision is meant to help Microsoft compete in the so-called metaverse, a union of online and virtual reality that companies have staked their futures on. (Facebook’s parent company renamed itself Meta, after all.) Right now, the metaverse is mostly a buzzword, but Microsoft hopes that Activision’s technical know-how and popularity will give it a leg up.

It’s also a bet on avoiding antitrust scrutiny in Washington. Microsoft has largely escaped the recent rush to clamp down on tech giants like Amazon, Alphabet and Meta — until now. The company argues that, even after buying Activision, it would still be far smaller in video games than Sony or Tencent. And in a sign of its confidence in the deal, Microsoft will pay Activision up to $3 billion in breakup fees if regulators block the transaction. Microsoft expects the deal to take up to 18 months to close.

I don't even really disagree with this, but... you're a mod, right? Isn't the point to... moderate discussions, rather than getting involved and insulting people?

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