Why isn't no one talking about this

[nymphetsss]

Dont you guy have phones!!!!

[Ianus]

when did bitcoin start to fall and activision? can the two be related?.. i smell conspirces

this is what slipped on my mind also

[Deleted]

The market is adjusting to what was obviously a bubble, tech companies are adjusting harder.

THIS THIS AND THIS, it will burst, today's games are too expansive to make. You can't really sell a AAA game for "only60$" millions and milions and millions are going into eh development of the game and marketing.

Its even worse than moves.. LIke what a 100 000 move needs to make 500 000, something like that to eb even profitable because the real cost is not 100 000 but 250 000+ so you need to make 2x the amount to cover the cost and invesmant.

It can't sustain it self. Ya 2003 games could cost 20-40$ , today... not so much really.

Dnk about CDRed, but I would be surprised if they have an easy time.

DNK man , its going to shit and looking at the " best Game Devs " it will fall "soon S

[VanishingAct]

People acting like they know anything about stock markets except "if down = bad" ITT.

People implying the fan outrage has ANYTHING to do with the fall is even worse because none of the mouthbreathers actually complaining have any stocks in Blizzard in the first place.

Its called investor confidence. Most would sell as they see too much risk because of the reaction to Diablo mobile, on top of the rest of whats happened this year.

But yeah, I am confident they will climb again if the mobile game sells as they anticipate in Asia markets.

[Gangresnake]

It look like it's a general market trend. EA, Nintendo and Ubi are freefalling aswell.
I would advise caution before arguing that it's because "muh diablo".

[kail]

I'm happy about this and I can only hope Activision Blizzard get the message for once.

Learn what? Do people really think a side project they commissioned someone else to make is the reason a multi-billion valued company is dropping in value? They have been dropping in value for a while, like a month before we even know about their disappointing reveal.

I hope they alter their course, as much as anyone, but people seem love to use stock numbers to prove their point regardless of its relevance or correlation.

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It look like it's a general market trend. EA, Nintendo and Ubi are freefalling aswell.
I would advise caution before arguing that it's because "muh diablo".

Their Pokemon game must have failed hard because of their stock drop. What did EA release or announce recently so we can blame that on their falling value?

[HumbleDuck]

Do you even stocks bro?

It's a trend. Markets are down for awhile now. Actually looks like blizzard is doing better than most other s&p 500s are doing recently.

[Julmara]

Activision is like a parasite that slowly drains blizzard

[Deleted]

A low stock price also makes it a target for a takeover. Who knows what strategy is behind this.

[Seranthor]

Do you even stocks bro?

It's a trend. Markets are down for awhile now. Actually looks like blizzard is doing better than most other s&p 500s are doing recently.

No, most of them dont... they see a correlation and they run to the forums to spew their lack of knowledge dressed up as so-called 'facts' then they proceed to shit everywhere and fling it about and stomp off like they know it all.

[Deleted]

No, most of them dont... they see a correlation and they run to the forums to spew their lack of knowledge dressed up as so-called 'facts' then they proceed to shit everywhere and fling it about and stomp off like they know it all.

Really, so you don't see recent events as a fundamental structural shift towards activision personnel/mindset, essentially asset-stripping of the goodwill that very large successful long-term focused companies tend to cultivate, short-term gain traded for long-term bankruptcy? You don't think this is a pattern observable in many former fortune 500 companies, that can to a large extent be picked up by neural networks or even simpler pattern recognition systems, based on recent market data?

Or are you just a very, very stupid person that just likes sucking Blizzard dick? Because it seems like you just reflexively grovel towards anything you perceive as powerful for its own sake.

[AeneasBK]

Didn't Nintendo see a big jump when Pokemon Go was released?

So does this mean games and their reputation only matter when stock is going up, or?

[Deleted]

And yet between 10am and 2pm today it was climbing; it's back up to where it was last Friday, at the moment.

[slime]

Stocks are volatile. News at 11.

[grexly75]

It look like it's a general market trend. EA, Nintendo and Ubi are freefalling aswell.
I would advise caution before arguing that it's because "muh diablo".

Exactly, all of the big name developers/publishers are hurting right now.. Makes me wonder if Sony is hurting as well, one interesting thing Microsoft just went on a big spending spree recently buying up a few game developers..

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No, most of them dont... they see a correlation and they run to the forums to spew their lack of knowledge dressed up as so-called 'facts' then they proceed to shit everywhere and fling it about and stomp off like they know it all.

That is the thing there are quite a few people with a hate boner and as such if they can find a way to crap all over what they hate they will, seems to be a running trend of late unfortunately..

[Akka]

THIS THIS AND THIS, it will burst, today's games are too expansive to make. You can't really sell a AAA game for "only60$" millions and milions and millions are going into eh development of the game and marketing.

Correction : they aren't too expensive to MAKE, they are too expensive to MARKET.
As with everything, the marketing parasite is sucking the blood of the industry by hoarding the investment. Companies will sooner cust half of the actual production budget of the game and release it with bugs and half-baked features and copy-paste the previous version, than cut one quarter of the marketting (which would spare twice the amount money).

[roboscorcher]

Oh boy, the Activision doomsayers are out again.

The merger happed in 2007. It's been 11 years, the sky has not fallen yet.

[Revi]

Not surprising if it's true. WoW is (deservedly) tanking subs, SC isn't very popular anymore, they've let Diablo die off, HotS is losing to the other DOTAs. I guess Hearthstone is the only real success for them at the moment?

They're a big company but they're not what they used to be, their value should reflect that.