[Newsbot]

Title: Activision To Buy Back Independence In $8.2 Billion Vivendi Deal
Category: Business
Posted By: commanderkai
Date: 2013-07-31 02:04:37

[Freakinoldguy]

Now if someone like Dice could buy out the worst company in North America and put them out of our misery we could all be happy.

[jeff744]

Related: http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/20 ... -blizzard/

Basically Vivendi shot itself in the foot by trying to force its own crappy business plan onto a good business and drag it down with them. Activision pays double now but gains more control and will retain more money for itself rather than passing it on.

[Regina]

Maybe they can go back and make a decent game.........like they use to.

[saturn_656]

What comes out of the Blizzard half of the company is typically of high quality.

Most of what Activision puts out is dreck... even before the merger.

[llama66]

I quite enjoyed Star Trek: Elite Force, thank you.

[DrCaleb]

Some of the Call of Doodie weren't too bad either. And let's not forget classics, Doom, Doom 2, Doom 3, Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Quake Wars, Mechwarrior I and II, . . .

[commanderkai]

Now if Activision started making good games again, I'd be really happy. That being said, I prefer this over Vivendi utterly destroying Activision-Blizzard's credit to save themselves.

[jeff744]

commanderkai commanderkai:

Now if Activision started making good games again, I'd be really happy. That being said, I prefer this over Vivendi utterly destroying Activision-Blizzard's credit to save themselves.

I'm already really happy because their games get all the little screaming kids so I don't have to deal with them on Battlefield.

[saturn_656]

llama66 llama66:

I quite enjoyed Star Trek: Elite Force, thank you.

The 'Trek games were the only Activision games I really liked.

They haven't made one in 10 years.

[saturn_656]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Some of the Call of Doodie weren't too bad either. And let's not forget classics, Doom, Doom 2, Doom 3, Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Quake Wars, Mechwarrior I and II, . . .

Doom and Quake were done by id.

[DrCaleb]

saturn_656 saturn_656:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Some of the Call of Doodie weren't too bad either. And let's not forget classics, Doom, Doom 2, Doom 3, Quake, Quake II, Quake III, Quake Wars, Mechwarrior I and II, . . .

Doom and Quake were done by id.

But distributed by Activision.

[commanderkai]

jeff744 jeff744:

commanderkai commanderkai:

Now if Activision started making good games again, I'd be really happy. That being said, I prefer this over Vivendi utterly destroying Activision-Blizzard's credit to save themselves.

I'm already really happy because their games get all the little screaming kids so I don't have to deal with them on Battlefield.

True, plus the CoD series always make me laugh with their utterly stupid plots and contrived situations.

[CanadianJeff]

Hey hopefully this means activision puts out more then just another shooter. Used to be a great company back in the day. Hopefully this also means Blizzard is free from controls to make better games again. Diablo 3 but a complete disaster just trying to cash cow in on it's auction house.

[Shadow_Flanker]

jeff744 jeff744:

I'm already really happy because their games get all the little screaming kids so I don't have to deal with them on Battlefield.

Now if only that can happen with World Of Tanks.