Activision buys itself back from Vivendi
Submitted by: Got Haggis? @ 08:40 AM | Friday, July 26, 2013 | (url: http://www.joysti...)
"Activision Blizzard has reached a deal to buy itself back from Vivendi for over $8 billion. After the split, Activision Blizzard will be an independent company again, with a majority of its shares owned by the public. Bobby Kotick will remain CEO, with Brian Kelly as Chairman. Financially troubled French conglomerate Vivendi is out...well, not totally out, it still retains 83 million shares or about 12 percent of the company."
VUG ruined Tribes.
Category: General Gaming | 52 Comments
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they aren't independent, they still have stockholders to make happy
same shit just without the french
same shit just without the french
I remember the day I came into work and was told that Ken and Roberta no longer 'owned' the company, we had been bought out and the new CEO had no experience in software, it was a sad time.
From the acquisitions by Cendant and CUC the slippery slope just got steeper and we joked about finding empty boxes on our desks along with a pink slip when we came in some fatful morning, until finally Vivendi came along and totally killed the company.
Vivendi was responsible for closing the development houses, laying off hundreds, and driving the business into the ground. French foreign fucks indeed.
Sad ending to one of the best jobs I ever had. I didn't make tons of money but dang it was fun, the only 5 years of my life where I wanted to go to work everyday.
You guys know I don't swear often but...
Fuck French Foreign Fucks
Fuck Carthage
Get Baileys -LGBR
We We.
somehow i did am not surprised you wrote this.
somehow i did am not surprised you wrote this.
I did am not surprised you wrote that.
I did am not surprised you wrote that.
I am did not surprised you wrote that.
:spineyes:
The fact that they can afford an $8 Billion dollar deal, just goes to show you how full of shit they are when it comes to all the excuses they give for why games need to sell for $59.99 and why they need DRM on everything to protect themselves from pirating and why they can\'t offer 3rd party content support or 3rd party online hosting ect ect ect.
Mega-Publishers are sloths, fat on the spoils from gouging the shit out of naive and oblivious consumer-gamers.
Mega-Publishers are sloths, fat on the spoils from gouging the shit out of naive and oblivious consumer-gamers.
so uh
the shitty CEO is still in charge of blizz
meaning shit will still suck
The shitty CEO is still in charge of Activision-Blizzard. That is an important distinction, contrary to what the conspiracy theorists espouse (Morhaime runs Blizzard).
In order to counteract the plunging WoW population numbers, Blizzard is introducing two new races: the Honeybadgers of the Horde and the Sloths of the Alliance.
I'm proud of Activision.
Shitty graphics and rapid turn-around created a gaming MONSTER back in the day. Why let the French bury you.. they deserve an American burial.
Shitty graphics and rapid turn-around created a gaming MONSTER back in the day. Why let the French bury you.. they deserve an American burial.