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Posted: Dec 2nd 2007 8:32PM Neebs said

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Wow that was a fast "pointing out the obvious!"

Well, standard analysis fair, anyways.
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Posted: Dec 2nd 2007 8:36PM MisterSmith said

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I think this is somewhat fascinating, given how opposite the two developers somewhat are from one another.

Activision is bigger into consoles, while Blizzard is the opposite. Blizzard's one of the few Western developers who has made an impact in the East (Korea basically lives and breathes Starcraft), having this truly worldwide presence that Activision could play off. Basically they have all of their bases covered.

I think it would be interesting to see some of their developers crossover and make something. Not necessarily a merger of two different franchises (World of Tony Hawk MMO, anyone? =P) but too see these companies use their creative assets to create something new.

I find the name kind of ridiculous though.
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Posted: Dec 2nd 2007 8:59PM (Unverified) said

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You know, if I had a spare 18 billion dollars lying around I would've bought up activision too. Then I could've closed down the bastards who murdered trokia games.
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Posted: Dec 2nd 2007 9:37PM (Unverified) said

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Activision didn't kill Trokia games, It was Valve; so blame Vivendi.

They Sat on Vampire: Bloodlines for a year or so because their source engine contract stated they could not beat Half Life 2 to retail. The constant delays Half Life 2 hurt them badly.
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Posted: Dec 2nd 2007 10:18PM Yuccadude said

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So theoretically, if I owned Activision in its entirety, I could have several private islands where I could conduct my evil plans to take over the world...
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Posted: Dec 2nd 2007 10:20PM Negativecool said

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I don't understand what Blizzard gets out of merging with Activision. Blizzard's WoW PRINTS money...seems to me Activision would just be dead weight sucking on the teet of Blizzard's billion dollar franchise.
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Posted: Dec 3rd 2007 12:09AM jynxycat said

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Blizzard isn't merging with Activision, Vivendi is. Blizzard is under Vivendi's large umbrella.
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Posted: Dec 3rd 2007 1:48AM Negativecool said

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Whoever, it doesn't matter. Look, it just makes no business sense to me that a company as independently profitable as Blizzard is would merge with anyone.
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Posted: Dec 3rd 2007 1:53AM (Unverified) said

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it's all about the benjamins
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Posted: Dec 3rd 2007 3:21AM (Unverified) said

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Yeah I mean, Activision has made of a game of pretty much every genre. It would only pull in more money for Blizzard, 'specially if they can call the shots to Activision and make their games better.
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Posted: Dec 3rd 2007 7:39AM (Unverified) said

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Another heavyweight ready to hang with EA & Ubisoft.
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