CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are “very excited.”::Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are “very excited.”

  • just_change_it@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, i’m sure microsoft won’t do anything to increase monetization on their 69 billion dollar purchase. The objective is to make blizzard’s games better by minimizing highly profitable systems like microtransactions, battle passes, DLC season passes, xp boosters, in game real money stores.

    They wouldn’t be buying these properties to try and milk as much profit as possible at all. No sir.

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      1 year ago

      Hey, this is the last hope I have. There’s not a lot of it, but there is a tiny chance that maybe maybe maybe things will get better. Very likely not, but, you know, one could hope.

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      1 year ago

      I paid full price for both Factorio and Skyrim because they are full games that I get to own. No micro transactions, and modding is almost encouraged through Steam. I will never buy another microtransaction game. I will never buy another “subscription based” platform like Xbox. I’m so fucking over not owning the thing I bought

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        1 year ago

        What the big developers see when they read this is that you’re a low-value customer and marketing to you will be less profitable than milking 14yo kids who use their birthday money to buy fortune gift cards.

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          Most underaged individuals are being taken advantage of and the government does jack shit. Gambling is banned but this you never gain money at least in gambling you have a chance to gain which makes all of this so much worse.

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          1 year ago

          Yes, and if you teach this to your friends and children, the big companies will eventually adapt to what the market is offering vs trying to dictate the market

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        1 year ago

        I hate to break it to you but you don’t really “own” the games on steam either. You have a license agreement with valve which they can revoke at any time, and you lose access to the games you paid for.

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          1 year ago

          I mean, if it’s playable offline there isn’t much they can do about it, right?

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          1 year ago

          I have them all downloaded. 25 years of old hard drives and nerdy piracy have me well stocked for the apocalypse

    • lorty@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I expect some changes to integrate better with gamepass, but overall if monetisation is the problem, MS won’t fix anything.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard to design pachinko machines and mobile games, exclusively.