Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard Approved: What to Expect for Game Pass and Classic Games

2023-10-21 06:27:15

After nearly two years of running and multiple court battles, Microsoft’s plan to acquire Activision Blizzard for a sky-high US$68.7 billion finally received approval from major regulatory authorities around the world earlier this month, and this company with a large amount of IP Game publishers have also been successfully brought under Microsoft’s umbrella. From a player’s perspective, one of the most anticipated parts of this deal is, of course, being able to see a number of works from Activision Blizzard and the “Diablo” series appear on Microsoft’s Game Pass, but beyond that, it seems likely that some of the forgotten Activision games will get another chance. In an interview from the official Xbox channel, Xbox President Phil Spencer also personally talked about how Microsoft will deal with some classic old games from Activision Blizzard. Of course, this has also made many people look forward to it. The players are very excited. “I do think that with Game Pass we have the ability to pick out a few series a year, almost a vision of ‘revisiting’, that’s a word I just came up with… when you look at those that are Our game series are full of opportunities to come back again.” He said that Activision Blizzard does have an extremely large game lineup for Microsoft to tap. After all, this publisher has been merged by the two companies. of very large companies, now coupled with the investment of Microsoft. Whether it’s a remake or a port, Microsoft currently has plenty of options. Even so, Spencer emphasized that they would not port classics purely to make money from players. “I want to make sure that when we go back and visit a game, we all have to be fully committed to it…not just to improve financial revenue or public relations and fail to meet the expectations of players.” He said that although Phil Spencer himself also has Looking at his personal wish list of Activision Blizzard games that he hopes to see again, such as the classic shooting game “Hexen”, he still said that the production team must be enthusiastic during the process of remaking or porting to have a chance of success. “If the team is going to revisit some of the old IPs that we have now and put our heart and soul into it, I’m willing to fully support it. I think there’s a pretty amazing treasure trove of games behind it that we can revisit again,” he said. I’m thinking about things like id Software’s port of Quake 2 not too long ago, which I thought was really cool. They did a really good job of revisiting a game and modernizing it while not Leaving the history of the series behind. I want to see more games like this released.” For now, these are only future plans that are still under development, and Phil Spencer also emphasized that Activision Blizzard Its games will not be immediately available on their Game Pass platform this year, that is, within the next two months. “The most important truth about Activision Blizzard’s King is that the process of getting approval really took too long… We were not able to immediately start cooperation projects with Activision Blizzard related to the old product lineup before. Like this The acquisition is officially completed and we can start construction, but there is still a lot to do,” said Phil Spencer.
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