Wasn't opening up their launcher to third party games listed on their business plan? It's not really a surprise this would start with an Activision game.
Technically Blizzard Entertainment is a Child Company to parent ActiVision Blizzard, hence how Blizzard Entertainment can still have its own CEO (Mike Morhaime) while ActiVision Blizzard has its own CEO.
Stocks the same though so its not entirely wrong, but they are two separate entities
Great news!
Even the news poster seems to think battle.net was better.
This is just marketing only thing.
The server is still operated by Bungie.
Nothing is changed, except you can buy Destiny 2 with WoW gold.
I like it because I have $350 "useless" battle.net balance.
As for the token price shots higher, it will come back down.
Oh my fucking god token prices. What a joke. Was actually excited until I saw that.
holy shit what a sell out
edit: i'm aware bungie is owned by activision
edit 2: this guaruntees in-game purchases (loot boxes??)
Of course Blizz would be a fan of a grindy MMOFPS with very little gameplay value.
RIP token prices too
I don't think that will be the case. Because of one simple "fact": Destiny 2 is not from a Blizzard universe. The reason why other blizzard games have cross-game rewards is because it makes sense, they are "tied" together, different titles but still they belong to one entity. Destiny 2 is a completely different entity.
My strong belief is that Activision wants to "lure in" Blizzard players (since the playerbase across the entire battle.net is vast) they can earn more $$$. I'm almost certain Blizz won't care to create promo content for Destiny 2 like rewards because it's not their game but I'm sure Blizz will get a piece of the pie as well (after all, if you play Destiny 2 you probably won't have time to play WoW and so on so a compensation for a possible lack of players in Blizzard games needs to be in place). But hey, this is just a theory....
I wonder why so many people hate Blizzard... and why these people continue to play WoW and/or post on a WoW site. Reading these comments and I am just like "what did they do to you? Kick your puppy?"