Activision/Blizzard possibly up for sale?

[dagamer34]

Not anymore. They are spending $45billion on dividends and stock buy back over the next 3 years.

Apple makes more money than it spends, even with the dividend. Their profit was $13 billion from January to March of 2012.

I don't think anyone can outright buy Activision Blizzard since they are worth so much (and they do generate quite a bit of profit), so it must be just a % of their total stake in the company.

 

[gladiatorua]

Google wouldn't bother, Valve doesn't have enough money...
Apple or EA? No way.
Sad.

 

[Aikouka]

Apple has no reason to buy Activision-Blizzard anyway.

 

[Craig234]

Look, all I know is that diablo3 sucks. The company took so much time to develop a game that is fail. There is not a single good thing about it compared to earlier installments. Hell, there is not even a battlenet lobby. Remember all the hype quite a few years back of battlenet interface going to own. Oh, there is no battlenet sry.

Battle.net lobby: all spammer bots, whisper spam.

 

[power_hour]

Facebook could probably afford to buy them. Just think of the potential lol

 

[sactoking]

Apple has no reason to buy Activision-Blizzard anyway.

Take one of the most successful/largest gaming companies and make them program iOS apps? They would piss off quadrillions of Windows/Android/Sony gamers. That's the exact type of f-you move that Apple would do.

 

[uhohs]

besides apple and MS who even has the money to purchase them?

facebook

 

[railven]

Is it like some kind of trend to hate on Blizzard lately? All the hate and whine and yet all their games are doing successful from any perspective (sales/volume-usage/critic review/user review[majority].)

I'm not even a Blizzard fan for say, only really played WoW outside of the WC days) but damn I didn't know they had such hardcore fanboys that on the drop of a bad decision they foam at the mouth and the entitlement shines through.

Reminds me of this guy who can't stop trash talking Diablo 3 and how it isn't Diablo 2 yet he's working on his 5th level 60. Yeah, game must be THAT bad.

 

[georgec84]

Vivendi ruined Sierra. Can't imagine anybody doing worse than that, but EA will find a way I'm sure.

 

[Aikouka]

Take one of the most successful/largest gaming companies and make them program iOS apps? They would piss off quadrillions of Windows/Android/Sony gamers. That's the exact type of f-you move that Apple would do.

They would be better off buying Rovio and making Angry Birds an iOS exclusive.

 

[crownjules]

ATPCG, let us unite and buy Blizzard and Activision. A company by the gamers, for the gamers.

 

[digiram]

Is it like some kind of trend to hate on Blizzard lately? All the hate and whine and yet all their games are doing successful from any perspective (sales/volume-usage/critic review/user review[majority].)

I'm not even a Blizzard fan for say, only really played WoW outside of the WC days) but damn I didn't know they had such hardcore fanboys that on the drop of a bad decision they foam at the mouth and the entitlement shines through.

Reminds me of this guy who can't stop trash talking Diablo 3 and how it isn't Diablo 2 yet he's working on his 5th level 60. Yeah, game must be THAT bad.

This game sucks sooo much, I just can't wait to go home and play it.

 

[Alienwho]

prediction: Facebook buys blizzard and suddenly has a way to make money. Facebook's stock quadruples by the end of the year.

You heard it here first.

 

[coloumb]

Apple and MS aren't the only entities which have the buying power... Think outside the box.....