{"id":3781,"date":"2022-01-18T18:57:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3781"},"modified":"2022-01-18T18:57:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:57:27","slug":"ms-blizz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/01\/ms-blizz\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Blizz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/1\/18\/22889258\/microsoft-activision-blizzard-xbox-acquisition-call-of-duty-overwatch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dang<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the people in the back who don\u2019t read about the history of video games, and who don\u2019t understand why Bobby Kotick is still there, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.filfre.net\/2017\/01\/a-time-of-endings-part-3-mediagenic-or-the-patent-from-hell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u2019s a&#160; hint<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.filfre.net\/2019\/04\/an-unlikely-savior\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">and more here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHow could the business press not love him? He turned a $440,000 investment into a $4.5 billion company in 25 years.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And just sold it for $70 billion. Activision filed for bankruptcy in 1991 with Bobby at the top. Of COURSE business people love that man. He\u2019s been excellent at his job.<\/p>\n<p>Now yes, I know. But when we\u2019re talking about money and that amount, you&#160; already know that characters and toxic culture don\u2019t matter then. Look at Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, on the Microsoft side, wow. They\u2019re not joking around and it makes sense: the only way for game subscriptions to work is to have so many lucrative IPs that whatever happens, \u2014a game being a complete financial bust\u2014 nothing can really go down. It\u2019s simply too big.<\/p>\n<p>I think by buying Blizzard they just achieved that. That Game Pass thing just became ultra attractive to many.<\/p>\n<p>But even bigger is the fact that they own eyeballs, metaverse-ready kids: from Minecraft to Spyro to Call of Duty to Doom and Halo, with a plethora of indie games on the side and Candy Crush with mom? All for one subscription? For any device? <\/p>\n<p>No one will leave that MS Metaverse. It\u2019s too good of a deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dang. For the people in the back who don\u2019t read about the history of video games, and who don\u2019t understand why Bobby Kotick is still there, here\u2019s a&#160; hint (and more here): \u201cHow could the business press not love him? He turned a $440,000 investment into a $4.5 billion company in 25 years.\u201d And just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3782,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3781\/revisions\/3782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}