Microsoft Buys Activision Blizzard

 Well, that was unexpected.

The megacorporation Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for a whole lot of money.

I'm not someone who understands the kind of complexities that this means for the business. I also don't really have much of an idea of what this means for the games we care about.

Blizzard, of course, remained a somewhat independent studio after its merger with Activision, and the horrifying crap that has come out in the past year was unfortunately not some outsider-imposed culture but something that was very much part of Blizzard itself, so I'm skeptical that a different corporate overlord is going to flush out all of the problems at the company.

There is a good chance that Bobby Kotick is going, though officially he's being kept on for now.

For us Mac users, I don't think there's a ton to worry about here that we didn't already have to worry about. While Blizzard started as a Mac gaming company, we've already seen them following the trend of focusing more on PC games, such as with Overwatch. But even though Microsoft makes Windows, they've always made programs that run on Macs, and an existing game like WoW is certain to remain playable on one of its native platforms.

Anyway. As satisfying as it might be to see Kotick fired, this is also another giant corporation amoeba-ing up another giant corporation, which is another example of the kind of late capitalist hell we all find ourselves in.