Blizzard and Activision Announce $18.8bn Merger

With respects to /.

The companies behind Call of Duty and World of Warcraft are merging in a deal which could shake up the global video games industry. Activision and Blizzard have said they will form "the world's most profitable games business" in a deal worth $18.8bn (£9.15bn).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7123582.stm

Saying they will for the "world's most profitable" business makes me think they don't give a shit whether or not their games are good, just that they make money. Fuck Blizzard.

Less of Blizzard and Activision announcing the merger, more of Blizzard's owning company, Vivendi, buying a controlling stake in Activision, and then merging the two.

Should be interesting - Blizzard are primarily PC, Activision are primarily consoles. Go figure?

Oh, and they're now the biggest third party publisher - EA *spit* are second.

Holy fuck guys, this is in the News and Events forum! Keep your spam out of here.

So we might end up with an FPS starcraft and first-person Diablo @_@?

So why do I get my post removed and slaynish doesnt? Thats just racism.

Vivendi is an oddly particular company, I'd say it's safe to assume that some sort of new gaming will come from this, they probably bought stock in them to get some new employees..

Here's a weird-though, Starcraft 2 on Steam? I mean they're all through Vivendi, and I would assume that they could implement a new system and totally get rid of Battle.net, or maybe just incorporate that into it.. the possibilities are Endless....