could Dreamhaven BUY Blizzard Entertainment?

[crusadernero]

It can't be more than, like, twenty moneys, right?

tree fiddy, atleast.

[Beefhammer]

I mean the intent behind the question is to buy it out of Activision to "fix" the studio and get the IPs back.

Why would Mike want to "fix" the studio that he let all these sexual predators and predatory actions take place in to begin with? He's part of that bro culture that got Blizzard in trouble in the first place.

[Dellis0991]

I mean the intent behind the question is to buy it out of Activision to "fix" the studio and get the IPs back.

Dreamhaven isn't even off the ground yet, buying Blizzard is one thing, but the money and time to fix it would take away from the time and money that could be spent on whatever IPs Dreanhaven have in development. Essentially they would crippling themselves before they got a chance to stand up.

[Tech614]

Blizzard Entertainment is valued at $22 billion and a sale would have to be drastically over value as ATVI isn't trying to actively sell them. Good luck homie.

The largest gaming acquisition in modern times was MS buying Bethesda and that was only 7.5 billion lol. But yea sure, some new startup company is going to buy a behemoth that costs triple that. What the hell is this post even.

[D3athsting]

With all the sh*t going on at blizz i wouldn't touch that with a 500m stick

[Gaidax]

Of course they could, they just need a few dozen billions dollars.

Ezzz.

[Ealyssa]

Last time I checked my couch there was 3 billions dollars. So if they have a few couches in their studio they may very well sit on a goldmine.

[diller]

Weird question, ofc they could if Blizzard was for sale anyone could buy it if they had the cash.

[EyelessCrow]

Why would Mike want to "fix" the studio that he let all these sexual predators and predatory actions take place in to begin with? He's part of that bro culture that got Blizzard in trouble in the first place.

How many people actually were for sure brought up on charges of sexual assault? Or lets loosen it and say who had solid cases against them? Just Afrasiasbi?

I'm not trying to be dismissive, genuinely I'm curious because he's the only one I know of and everything else is guilty by being pictured with him. Between him and the people that contributed to that girls suicide by sharing her nudes, I haven't really heard of anyone else. Did anyone even get charged with anything? The Cosby suite turned into a nothingburger that people still cling to because Cosby is now known as a piece of shit.

I don't think the people inside the organization that are pushing for changes even care about these allegations anymore. Seems more based around taking control.


As for Mike, and any other old Blizzard members. I doubt they would be interested. Like actors that move on to new roles they wanted to get away from the only thing they are known for and want to try something new. I doubt they'd care to go back to Warcraft or those Blizzard IPs as a whole.

[ro9ue]

If you buy Blizzard for $20 billion you're essentially just paying for the IPs, all of which are fairly tarnished at this point. I think their strategy is to just poach the best talent and work on new stuff.

[Beefhammer]

How many people actually were for sure brought up on charges of sexual assault? Or lets loosen it and say who had solid cases against them? Just Afrasiasbi?

I'm not trying to be dismissive, genuinely I'm curious because he's the only one I know of and everything else is guilty by being pictured with him. Between him and the people that contributed to that girls suicide by sharing her nudes, I haven't really heard of anyone else. Did anyone even get charged with anything? The Cosby suite turned into a nothingburger that people still cling to because Cosby is now known as a piece of shit.

I don't think the people inside the organization that are pushing for changes even care about these allegations anymore. Seems more based around taking control.


As for Mike, and any other old Blizzard members. I doubt they would be interested. Like actors that move on to new roles they wanted to get away from the only thing they are known for and want to try something new. I doubt they'd care to go back to Warcraft or those Blizzard IPs as a whole.

Counties accounts from employees who went to him about said accusations where he did nothing or fired the accusers. He enabled the behaviours by doing nothing about it.

[bloodykiller86]

....no how exactly would another company buy a subdivision of a conglomerate that's worth wayyyy more than that other company lol

[aceperson]

could they? probably not. even with it's extremely tarnished reputation, blizzard has a large collection of valuable IPs. on the other side though, would you want blizzard to be bought by dreamhaven? while i haven't seen much evidence showing morhaime knew about or participated in the abhorrent behavior, it was started under his watch many decades ago.

i don't think morhaime is the guy we thought we knew but without hard evidence, i can't say he's guilty either.

[Verdugo]

Question is, why would they do that.

[kaminaris]

If you buy Blizzard for $20 billion you're essentially just paying for the IPs, all of which are fairly tarnished at this point. I think their strategy is to just poach the best talent and work on new stuff.

Assuming that
A. There is still any talent left.
B. Wasn't already poached.

In this line of work, talent is extremely valuable and poached all the time.

[shise]

Why would Mike want to "fix" the studio that he let all these sexual predators and predatory actions take place in to begin with? He's part of that bro culture that got Blizzard in trouble in the first place.

You have literally no idea what you are talking about.

Clearly, you have 0 experience on leading a company, let alone a large scale company.

[Beefhammer]

You have literally no idea what you are talking about.

Clearly, you have 0 experience on leading a company, let alone a large scale company.

Never made that claim. However, there have been statements from many about going to Mike about harassment issues and they were swept under the rug or those complaining were fired. He is 100% involved by enabling and protecting the abusers and abusive behaviors.

I see no reason how DH buying Blizzard would fix anything.

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Assuming that
A. There is still any talent left.
B. Wasn't already poached.

In this line of work, talent is extremely valuable and poached all the time.

Just because you don't know the names of the people there doesn't mean they aren't talented.

[Black Rider]

from Activision Blizzard theoretically?

Theoretically everything is possible.

[Daedius]

Why would they, the Blizzard name has been tarnished.

[Talon8669]

Source on this? So far we cannot confirm or deny this.

I am sure the have multiple dollars. Would be hard to remain in business without at least multiple dollars.

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from Activision Blizzard theoretically?

There's probably not a whole lot of reason to honestly buy Activision Blizzard. It would cost to much money and come with to many headaches unless you're looking at it from an investor stand point. But another studio buying it...that won't happen until it totally bottoms out. I think what would be more likely would be Dream Haven buying out IP from Activision Blizzard or the rights to IP but I also don't see that happening especially since they can just go make their own IP and build a game off that. Honestly I think WoW was originally going to be built off the Warhammer IP but they couldn't come to an agreement so they just build the WoW IP (don't quote me on that but I remember reading that some where years ago).