Well Microsoft just did some big plays and bought Activision. Does this make them the parent to Bungie again? Maybe they could help 343 with Halo Infinite? Maybe some DLC or side games?
What are your thoughts?
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Ah my bad. Just been told they left 2 years ago. Sorry, I don’t keep up with Destiny so I never knew. Well let’s change this to what Devs would you like to see from this acquisition take on a Halo game?
Didn’t Bungie split from Activision in 2019?
Ah my bad. Just got told this myself. I don’t keep up with Destiny you see so I never knew. Well let’s change this to what Devs would you like to see from this acquisition take on a Halo game?
What is interesting to me is that this year COD, Battlefield, and Halo were competing this year, but now Microsoft looks like it is competing against itself. That concerns me a little bit. But I’m hoping this means COD can stop being a yearly franchise, take a break, and get good again.
(Also Raven software made Quake 4 and now that Raven and ID Software/Bethesda are under Microsoft I hope I can have the Quake 4 sequel I’ve been waiting for.)
Interesting times for gaming.
Thread already exists on this topic guys theres a search system to check before making thread in case you didn’t know
Yeah sadly they split for Activision ages ago.
I heard 19 has a full production period…
Similar title stating the purchase, but not the same question. The other just states what they want them to change in Infinite (Which kinda has nothing to do with the purchase). Unless there’s another topic but searching “Activision” only results in these two topics.
My read was it was more a cacht all for what the Activision purchase means for infinite and so covered your question also.
Perhaps I misinterpreted.
It will be interesting to see if they make COD an Xbox/PC exclusive or keep PlayStation in the loop and fleece us all for “micro” transactions.
I mean, I dont like this due to how monopolistic it is, Microsoft having bought Bethesda and now this. I hope the anti trust ban hammer frinaly wakes up and stops this, but thats likely wishful thinking. We will see if there is a silver lining of Microsoft’s overhead management leading to future Bethesda and activison games and company pratcices being a little better.
Yeah, it puts Halo in an incredibly strange position.
You can get away with having all the RPGs as they’re not really competing with eachother if you space out releases. But this would make CoD easily their main shooter.
Why bother making a Battle Royale for Halo when you have Warzone? 
You’ve got two arena based shooters and one massively more popular and profitable. That’s not something you can easily pivot away from. I am not sure how you make that work.
Do you pivot Halo to be more like Battlefield and emphasise the vehicle and big map combat instead?
Does it go more like Destiny and become a clearly open world sort of game?
This acquisition means very little if anything for Halo, that being said it does open up crossover content (still waiting for Doomguy 343i)
This acquisition is a ballsy play, because isn’t Activision like Microsoft’s biggest competitors? So wouldn’t this be stopped due to anti-monopoly laws or something?
This had to of been done to just further distance MS from its competition. Xbox is now the king of FPS/MP going forward and Sony basically has real chance of competiting because CoD and other huge games will become exclusive.
There is a term called diversification I believe, now I am no expert in CoD but it seems pretty obvious that there are tons of players that like one or the other and that there is a big gulf in the playerbases. So a Halo BR could still be massively successful alongside a BR because they are so different basically.
“The release of the parasite was unexpected, unfortunate, but there is no need to panic” 
Oh there definitely are people who have a preference. But then these games do compete to be everyone’s favourite shooter. If I am playing Halo Iam not playing Battlefield V. 
Stuff like the Battle Pass is very clearly copying CoD although a Battle Royale could be very different. Possibly incorporating elements of Halo V Warzone with bosses and AI objectives. I’d still say there would be some clash.
Microsoft still has many competitors, Sony, Nintendo, Tencent, etc. So I wouldn’t consider it to be in violation of antitrust laws. It also wouldn’t make sense to turn COD into an exclusive when they could make more money by just putting it on the gamepass, making it an exclusive would only hurt sales and public perception.
You can’t pay fifty billion and not make it exclusive?
I’m not a big fan of CoD, but this opens the door for Halo items like armor sets and even weapons to cross into CoD’s BR universe.
Which would be excellent exposure to new players for franchises like Halo and Gears.
The crossover possibilities between big xbox franchises and previously external game audiences are HUGE.
I think the games will be exclusive unless Sony is willing to pony up the cash to have it on their system, and definitely for CoD, I think they will. As for those saying it’s a monopoly, it isn’t as there’s still EA, Nintendo and Sony etc.
And I doubt CoD will cut into Halo. You can release them in different years, months, cater to different crowds etc. I mean, back in the day I played Halo 3 and MW or Halo Reach and MW2 at the same time. Helps the games not get stale when mixing it up.
I hear you, but I just think that Halo and CoD (going back to 2007 even) have always had different fanbases, I just don’t see it being too relevant to Halo.
I think Overwatch is more relevant lol. an Overwatch 2 could hurt interest in Halo much more than CoD would.
On paper that sounds fine, but in reality Activision were there main competitors. I don’t know if lawmakers or lawyers would be able to tell the difference here, but I think that Sony is largely irrelevant to Microsoft because Sony (and Nintendo) are all about Single-player games whereas MS is mostly MP oriented.
I just think that its going to hit a roadblock. This isn’t like the Bethesda acquisition, this could be horrible for gamers (their customers) so I’m curious if this will go through or not.
No it wouldn’t. What’s the point of paying this insane amount of money to not have any exclusives? Just sounds like a dumb business decision to me. This is a developing story though.
The same argument could be made for Minecraft, why isn’t Minecraft an exclusive? Because they make more money by having cross platform player base. There’s only so many xboxes in the world and they can’t even keep up with production?
This is new grounds that the law would have to figure out in time.
My god, that would’ve been the funniest roundabout “you can’t get away from us” move ever 