My Biggest Questions from the Microsoft Activision Merger

  • What Activision games come to Xbox backward compatibility?
  • What Activision games come to Game Pass?
  • Does World of Warcraft come to Xbox and does it get merged with gamepass?
  • How do they manage the two separate apps with battle.net and Xbox pc app? Do they get merged?
  • Does the annual COD release stop?
  • Does the annual COD release come to the Sony platform still?
  • What dormant IPs resurface?
  • How integrated does the publisher become with Microsoft?

There are a lot of opinions on the merger, including anti-trust takes and if this is good for the industry. I tend to lean that Activision was trying to sell with all its controversy going on. Who would you want to buy them Microsoft, Tencent, or someone else? In the near future, if you are an Xbox game pass subscriber you will be getting a ton of value. Time will tell all of this. If I was a betting man the transaction goes through, with Microsoft on the DOJ’s radar for antitrust.