in case you're living life under the xbox rock x, microsoft has apparently purchased activision
blizzard for roughly 69 billion dollars meaning that microsoft xbox is going to control and own
all the games that are under activation blizzard that includes call of duty that
includes overcrouch they're gonna get wow as well but guys no one's asking the important questions
what's gonna happen to candy crush oh yeah they are getting candy crush had to double check that
because this news is pretty sudden it's huge so far for 2022 this is the biggest gaming news we've
seen as you guys might be aware activision has been in a little bit of a pickle the last couple
of months there's been some scandals and stuff going on i'm not gonna dive super in depth on that
because if you know you know and i'm not gonna go down that road right now because it is very long
and we're gonna get exhausted before we can even talk about xbox buying activities but between the
activision controversy and call of duty not doing very well it seemed like they were going to be
getting the red ring of death but there's still so much more that we have to talk about because even
though this deal happened it's not finalized quite yet so before we dive into more information and i
give you guys my thoughts and opinions on all of this we just need to take a step back for a second
and realize that this is still a hypothetical deal until it's finalized but definitely do be aware of
the fact that if microsoft truly does acquire activision for almost 70 billion dollars this
is gonna be like one of the biggest game changers for gaming in a long time so let's go i obviously
saw a lot of this information from charlie intel's tweets and it says that the company is gonna start
adding activision blizzard games to xbox game pass and pc game pass obviously as we go through
all this information i'm going to be taking it from the stance of a call of duty player someone
who's been playing since call of duty 4. back when microsoft had the xbox exclusivity and they
would get dlc roughly a month early before like playstation and pc from a cod standpoint this is
very interesting because you know when we think about the golden era the golden days of call of
duty we think about when it was associated with xbox i'm not exactly sure where the exclusivity
started i think it might have been call of duty 2 because it was like bundled with xbox 360s i think
but ever since i started playing call of duty with call of duty 4 the original modern warfare xbox
pretty much went hand in hand with call of duty up until around advanced warfare and then that's when
things started to switch and i think it's because of how call of duty was actually performing and
how it was being developed on the xbox one like the xbox one was not running it as well as the
ps4 and i think that's when activision and sony then started to make the agreement and then the
exclusivity for dlc started to move over to sony and playstation but if this deal goes
through then that is 100 gonna be taken away and the exclusivity is going to go back to xbox which
again i don't think any of this is good i actually like where call of duty has been recently when it
comes to dlc like basically every single platform gets the dlc at the same time it kind of feels
like sony hasn't been as aggressive with call of duty like yeah i think around the time of modern
warfare when it came to spec ops you didn't get what's the survival mode or something and xbox
and pc had to wait what like an entire year to get a game mode i mean it didn't even turn out
to be that good it wasn't really that big of a deal overall when it comes to platform exclusive
games and games kind of being like safeguarded away from other platforms it's obviously to boost
the console sales and stuff but i think overall it actually hurts the community it hurts the
player bases because it starts to fragment people people start arguing and [ __ ] it's just stupid
we all enjoy games we all want to play games so barricading people away from playing those games
is very infuriating if a company like microsoft is going to spend roughly 69 billion dollars to
acquire activision and to acquire call of duty they're not going to just leave it alone and let
it be how it has been i pretty much see one of two things happening they're either gonna go back to
microsoft and xbox having that exclusivity where if you own and play call of duty on
xbox you're going to be able to get the dlc and possibly even like new guns and stuff like that
a month before sony and playstation and also pc this would pretty much be the slightly less
aggressive approach that microsoft had before when they had the xbox deal with call of duty
and then there's the [ __ ] storm there's the more aggressive approach where they might make
call of duty an xbox exclusive game i really hope that this is not the path that microsoft goes down
i mean they absolutely could if they wanted to boost the xbox sales essentially turning call of
duty into a game like halo or gears of war where you have to play it on xbox or pc in an effort to
really screw over sony and people who are playing on playstation 4 and playstation 5. i really
don't think that would be a good move especially considering that call of duty sales have been down
since vanguard was released you need to actually boost those sales if call of duty starts getting
restricted and you can only play it on an xbox and pc that's going to diminish the player base that's
not going to be a good thing regardless of whether you love or hate sony and playstation that's not
a smart move and if it was the flip side where sony would buy activision and call of duty i think
would be stupid if they made it a playstation exclusive it definitely goes both ways and i
don't think keeping people away from playing the game would be smart one thing i definitely want to
mention is that this deal is actually not going to be closed until the year 2023 so the next call of
duty game whatever we get in 2022 is still gonna be independent of everything that's going on with
microsoft and activision right now so none of this stuff is really gonna kick in until 2023. when
it comes to console exclusivity that is i feel like one of the more negative things but there
is something very positive and very awesome that could come out of this deal if it goes through
have you guys ever heard of a gathering of games called the halo master chief collection yeah that
little project that microsoft threw together to make sure that people could still play and enjoy
the older halo multiplayers and campaigns guess what guys it turns out when you permanently shut
down the xbox 360 servers for halo halo mcc ends up looking very valuable it seems like a really
great idea right what will happen to call of duty if they decide to shut down all the old xbox 360
and ps3 servers for the games i've got my copy of call of duty 4 modern warfare right here and
it says on the back activision makes no guarantees regarding the availability of online play and may
withdraw online service and its discretion without notice so yeah at any given point
in time activation can shut down the servers for these old call of duty games and as it currently
stands we don't have a call of duty collection so if they shut down all these servers we won't
be able to play these games ever again or will we i don't know i just want to see some actual
change happen i want to see something big happen for call of duty if i'm not mistaken if i go back
and do like a history of call of duty video like i've done in the past there's like 20 plus call
of duty games to play and record we should get something big and awesome for like what a 20-year
anniversary of call of duty in like 2023. i can understand if this doesn't happen in 2022 but
in 2023 i believe that's the 20-year anniversary of khan they should really go big in 2023 if it's
not gonna happen next year that's all i'm saying it turns out when i was making a vanguard video
i was talking about the possibility of getting a call of duty collection in the year 2023 marking
the 20th anniversary for call of duty and the fact that microsoft might actually be acquiring
activision can make this possibility even more real they have the resources and the experience of
making a collection game for halo so who's to say that they couldn't do this for call of duty that
would be insane and it'll be [ __ ] awesome if they actually decided to do that fingers crossed
boys i guess i missed this microsoft says active efficient blizzard games are enjoyed on a variety
of platforms and we plan to continue to support these communities moving forward there you go
hopefully they don't take that super aggressive approach and make call of duty b xbox exclusive
charlie says here that this will accelerate activision blizzard's push into mobile gaming
through xbox cloud gaming slash game pass we could see call of duty new releases on game pass on day
one and on mobile on day one i feel like with all this information coming out like the xbox
game pass songs just like [ __ ] skyrocketed i don't have it but it might actually be worth
it now that call of duty is gonna be owned by xbox also to follow up from that previous tweet
it says the acquisition is about increasing the availability of activision blizzard content across
more platforms including mobile definitely good to hear that this is all the studios that xbox
is going to own jesus yeah this is definitely looking pretty insane and there's something i
want to talk about which could make this whole entire deal fall apart government's regulation
i gotta try not to laugh here but we really do need to take this seriously because if
microsoft keeps acquiring different companies aside from activision they
very well could get a monopoly going on the gaming industry which is something that the
ftc is going to be looking into oh look at that wait that says that microsoft plans to
make some activision games playstation still while others will be exclusive to xbox and pc
i can already tell they do not want to leave the door close to having call of duty be xbox
exclusive you never know we're gonna have to wait and see how this whole thing plays out multiple
lawyers and analysis believe this microsoft's activision buyout will be a heated debate
between congress and the department of justice and microsoft over monopolizing the industry
it's unclear how this will all play out but will be a very interesting few months ahead i agree
charles nah this is nothing to worry about guys this is just a tiny little buy out for 69 billion
dollars nothing could possibly go wrong here in the future we will also see the xbox game studio
logo when loading up call of duty oh hopefully it doesn't take 40 seconds xbox is phil spencer to
bloomberg i'll just say to players out there who are playing activision blizzard's games on sony's
platform it's not our intent to pull communities away from that platform and we remain committed to
that make up your mind are you going to [ __ ] us over or not i really would like to know because i
might need to get an xbox series x if that's the case god damn just so that everyone's aware if
microsoft slash xbox wants to get rid of bobby kotek when the deal is done kotek will get a
minimum 250 million dollar payout dude's gonna get a quarter of a billion dollars if he gets cut oh
no bobby breaking the wall street journal says their sources have told them bobby kotek will
leave activision blizzard once the microsoft deal is done whoa this is so insane what i really can't
contain myself i mean this is some of the craziest gaming news i think we've ever seen oh my god
i think that pretty much catches us all up even though this whole biot has not been finalized yet
it raises so many different questions and it could create so many different kinds of possibilities in
the past there's been competition between halo and call of duty and are they going to work together
now is there going to be some kind of symbiotic relationship here i'd be lying if i said i wasn't
a little worried you know call of duty has all this proprietary information as far as it goes
for like the skill-based matchmaking algorithm and how they keep players retained on there how they
monetize the game and how they're super profitable we don't know if that information is going to
stick with call of duty or if they're going to use that to boost up halo and this is where the
debate about microsoft slash xbox monopolizing the gaming industry would be very interesting
because call of duty and halo are competitive with each other but once microsoft owns activision and
they can control call of duty what are they gonna do with it there's so many unanswered questions i
i swear like my brain is melting i could probably sit here and keep speculating for hours but it's
just to be exhausting i don't want to do that to myself so with that being said thank you guys
very much for watching i hope you guys enjoyed this little video of me talking about microsoft
acquiring activision as it currently stands i don't think any of us really know exactly what
the future of call of duty has in store for us but i do know that one thing is absolutely certain
whether microsoft actually acquires activision or not i hope call of duty can improve and get
better and with that being said i really do hope you guys enjoyed this video if you guys did and
you're excited to see call of duty return to xbox make sure to drop a like i'll see you guys supply