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Activision Gives Merger A Thumbs Up

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 04:06pm 09/07/08 | 17 Comments

Activision's shareholders today voted in favour of the merger with Vivendi to create Activision Blizzard, the largest third-party gaming company in the industry.

The vote came in with more than 92 percent of shareholders in favour of the move which will now make Vivendi Games a fully owned subsidiary of Activision.

With some of the biggest names in the game under the one umbrella, there's no telling what the future holds for the games industry. As long as the merged parties continue to release products such as World of WarCraft and Call of Duty though, Activision Blizzard is going to remain a massively key figure in shaping our future. What are your thoughts on this?

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trog
Posted 04:07pm 09/7/08

I'm sure it was a tough choice for Activision shareholders. Gee, do we want a piece of the WoW pie?

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TiT
Posted 04:14pm 09/7/08

everyone wants pie

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darkjedi
Posted 04:16pm 09/7/08

Yes, I'd be happy if someone wanted to givers me a share of the WoW Pie too!

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d[o_0]b
Posted 04:16pm 09/7/08

except probably that guy that doesn't like boobies

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trog
Posted 04:18pm 09/7/08

fixed the subject typo and beating steve w/ sack full of doorknobs

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Insom
Posted 04:27pm 09/7/08

should of just nuked it aye

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Dan
Posted 04:30pm 09/7/08

should of just nuked it aye

dude, should have, srsly.

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TicMan
Posted 04:30pm 09/7/08

Also get Steve to fix his avatar

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Insom
Posted 04:45pm 09/7/08

thats what i said dan

should of

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Midda
Posted 04:52pm 09/7/08

Also get Steve to fix his avatar

Yeah, it's been broken as long as I can remember.

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Dan
Posted 05:18pm 09/7/08

thats what i said dan

You're such a bogan.

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kEEv3r
Posted 05:24pm 09/7/08

What's with the crazy 8% of Activision shareholders that voted against the merger? I guess all they saw was Vivendi having the 52% controlling share of the merged company and neglected to notice the cash cow that would be fueling said comanpy for years to come.

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scottjames_12
Posted 08:21pm 09/7/08

All I can say is, if Blizzard's penchant for making excellent polished games rubs off on Activision, we will all have more awesome games to play. Keep at it guys!

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mitcho
Posted 10:41pm 09/7/08

I agree with scott, but also disagree with scott, yes blizzard does make some really nice polished games, but if that happens we will be lucky to get a game a year from them if they do blizzards polish haha.

but with most of the game comps merging with bigger groups , Will there be 1 day that only 2-3 super groups still making games? and where does this stand on computer hardware then? since 2 of the biggest so far are nvidia and ATI pushers, what happens if they make it that some games will run on the other cards better then the others to force people to buy there hardware?

This is already happening with ATI and nvidia right now, nvidia has physx and i know ATI have been making there own version of it, so when a game picks say physx over the ATI one, will the ATI cards still be able to run the same things?

Lots of questions with no answers. In my eyes, as long as games dont take sides in hardware wars, and make us lose out, then i dont mind a merger.

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kEEv3r
Posted 01:49pm 10/7/08

Does the aluminium foil on your head and windows interfere with the 'good' microwaves as well?

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TiT
Posted 03:42pm 10/7/08

I hope this makes COD4 on Steam cheaper lol!

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Khel
Posted 05:07pm 10/7/08

I'd rather get 1 entirely awesome, polished game from them a year than 4 or 5 shit ones.

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