Masakari
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I'm merely stating it exists.That's something completely different that you're talking. That's like Bain Capital-style private equity financial engineering.
No shadowy forces tanked Activision/Blizzard "on purpose" because Activision/Blizzard never tanked. The company was very fucking profitable and Bobby Kotick is going to make out like a bandit in this whole deal. Kotick stayed the course through all those lawsuits to get the company in a place to cash out.
What Microsoft chooses to do with the brand once they own it is up to them. I think they see major longterm recurring revenue value in the individual product ActiBlizz brands that Bobby had left to run out the clock.