Microsoft Completes Acquisition of Activision Blizzard

[cvaldes]

It seems it will be reduced by 10bil, they are appealing which could take several years, also found this-Since 2004, we have paid over $67 billion in taxes to the U.S., jeez if they have paid that much in taxes, how much must they have made.

Microsoft is a publicly traded company, they report earnings in the form of SEC filings. Feel free to look it up yourself which you should do anyhow if you really care. You don't even need to search the SEC EDGAR database, you can just look MSFT fundamentals on Yahoo Finance, just like you could have twenty years ago.

It's worth pointing out that the $67 billion in taxes is a cumulative sum over nearly two decades, so maybe $3.5B annually (averaged without inflation).

I am willing to wager a buffalo nickel that Microsoft is in a lower tax bracket (percentage wise) than pretty much everyone participating in the TPU Q&A forum.

 

[DavidC1]

Whatever "Blizzard" releases after this acquisition isn't going to be the game we identify with it anymore, except the names. But because they are so bad nowadays I can't imagine it being worse.

I am willing to wager a buffalo nickel that Microsoft is in a lower tax bracket (percentage wise) than pretty much everyone participating in the TPU Q&A forum.

As bad as people think mega-corporations are, governments are worse. After all, they are the penultimate mega corp.

 

[Fourstaff]

Because they keep Excel the same, and fail to add basic functionalities, I still cannot understand how it lacks copy paste.

Do you want to sit back and think about what you typed? They failed to make any improvements and they are still the default ... does this mean we don't need anything else?

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

There's a lot of potential honestly, franchise wise. But whether that kind of revolutionary talent is available at MS, I doubt. MS is most definitely not being a Sony in that sense, and Sony hasn't been what it was lately either. Both companies seem to forget that you can run all the services you like, but the core of your business is great games, worlds players can lose themselves in, and that also means not being bothered with a cash shop left and right.

The only company that gets this is Nintendo. It's also why they do what they do hardware side as well.

 

[FeelinFroggy]

I mean sure but more games equals a bump up in price. That’s gonna suck

No, it does not suck at all because you get more games. More day one games that I would not pay for otherwise. It's just like how we used to rent games back in the old days. Why pay $70 for a game that I'll play for a couple months and never touch again? That's how most single player games work for me anyway. This way, we can play games on day one without paying full price.

It's the best deal in PC gaming, especially if you play a lot of single player games.

 

[Random_User]

This is still bonkers. No offence, but paying so much money for such silly company. $68,7 Billion. For a moment, AMD's entire revenue is $23.2B, and intel's is $63.05B both by 2022. And both produce millions of products, real hardware. And have software divisions as well.

Activision and Blizzard used to have so many genres in their collection. But now what's the value, outside couple very popular games like CoD, and Overwatch, and maybe D4?

 

[Deleted member 185088]

This is still bonkers. No offence, but paying so much money for such silly company. $68,7 Billion. For a moment, AMD's entire revenue is $23.2B, and intel's is $63.05B both by 2022. And both produce millions of products, real hardware. And have software divisions as well.

Activision and Blizzard used to have so many genres in their collection. But now what's the value, outside couple very popular games like CoD, and Overwatch, and maybe D4?

COD makes lots of money, and they are planning to keep it on PS plus bringing back to Nintendo. In addition if they manage the company its value will increase as well.

On the other hand, it is weird that a company that doesn't make anything useful has such high value, AMD, Intel and nVidia in addition to making multitude of products and lots of them are actually useful.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

Microsoft don't make anything useful, really. I think the millions of PC's running some form of Microsoft OS will have something to say about that.

 

[Deleted member 185088]

Microsoft don't make anything useful, really. I think the millions of PC's running some form of Microsoft OS will have something to say about that.

I was referring to Blizzard obviously.