Activision To Buy Back Independence In $8.2 Billion Vivendi Deal


Business | 208048 hits | Jul 31 2:04 am | Posted by: commanderkai
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Activision Blizzard announced that it struck a deal with Vivendi to buy out most of its controlling stake.

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  1. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 9:21 am
    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.

  2. by jeff744
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 9:30 am
    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.

  3. by Regina Gold Member
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 1:53 pm
    Maybe they can go back and make a decent game.........like they use to.

  4. by avatar saturn_656
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 3:11 pm
    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.

  5. by avatar llama66
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:14 pm
    I quite enjoyed Star Trek: Elite Force, thank you.

  6. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:22 pm
    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, . . .

  7. by avatar commanderkai
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:02 pm
    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.

  8. by jeff744
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:06 pm
    "commanderkai" said
    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.

  9. by avatar saturn_656
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:24 pm
    "llama66" said
    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.

  10. by avatar saturn_656
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:30 pm
    "DrCaleb" said
    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.

  11. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:39 pm
    "saturn_656" said
    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.

  12. by avatar commanderkai
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:16 pm
    "jeff744" said
    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.

  13. by avatar CanadianJeff
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:53 pm
    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.

  14. by avatar Shadow_Flanker
    Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:45 pm
    "jeff744" said

    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.



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