Talk:Activision Blizzard/Archive 1

Some Questions
I just had a few questions about the merging of the companies, as I'm not familiar with the aspects of it:

1. Just to reclarify, it was Activision and Vivendi that merged, right? Not Activision and Blizzard as the name suggests?

2. I noticed on the list that Crash Bandicoot is not up there. Does this mean that Crash bandicoot is still going to be published by Vivendi Games or is it not up there because Crash is still directly being produced by Sierra?

3. Does this mean that there's a possibilty for Crash Bandicoot in a Tony Hawk game? (I know it's a dumb question but I was curious.)

69.24.125.144 19:49, 2 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Article discussion pages aren't a forum, they are here just to discuss how to improve an article, nothing else. Thank you. --Taraborn 09:49, 3 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Answering these questions would improve the article, so your statement is not helpful. --70.231.139.7 (talk) 16:55, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Some answers:
1. Yes.

2. I don't think every franchise that VG and Activision own can be on the short list on the article page. VG will probably not be publishing anything anymore, because VG does not exist anymore. It is Activision Blizzard, and they're most likely to be the ones with their name plastered all over the box.

3. Yes, but it's wrong.

Untamed 01:49, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

Another source
bbc 86.21.74.40 22:05, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Activision Blizzard FAQ from Blizzard Entertainment
http://www.blizzard.com/press/activision-faq.shtml

If someone wants to try and incorporate that into the page at least until the merger happens it would probably help out. 68.226.119.187 17:29, 3 December 2007 (UTC)


 * It's already in, under the reference tag name of "Blizzard FAQ". -- Sabre 19:05, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

buy out
Blizzard bought out Activision, sweet! Does that mean Star Trek: Armada will be on Battle.net?--xgmx (T | C | D | R | DR) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.244.36.198 (talk) 22:33, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * NO! in actual fact Activision MERGED with Vivendi which owns Blizzard and the disscusion place isn't for disscusing the content of the page, its for dicussing how the grammer can be improved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.45.222 (talk) 09:16, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
 * To be clear, Activision merged with Vivendi Games, not Vivendi Universal, to create Activision Blizzard, which Vivendi Universal owns. 71.223.98.151 (talk) 22:48, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * If you look at the corporate board of Activision-Blizzard and ownership stake, Activision effectively bought out Blizzard. Looking through the current board of directors, Blizzard has no obvious representative, whereas Actvision has at least 2 (chairman Brian G. Kelly and CEO Bobby Kotick). I wish someone who knows Wikipedia wiki-lawyering would find a way to represent this info in the article (it isn't me). --70.231.139.7 (talk) 17:01, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

For Reference
Here is a press release concerning the completed merger, with details that may be important to the article. Just posting this here for reference, since editing business articles is not my forte. -- Comandante    { Talk }  20:53, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

What the ??
Parent 	Vivendi (52%) Cerberus Capital Management (47%) DLJ Merchant Banking Partners (22%) The numbers don't add up... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peer-LAN (talk • contribs) 10:30, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

???
Is Activision Blizzard a joint-venture or 2 companies that decide to drop its own company and become one like IBM. --Ramu50 (talk) 01:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)


 * It was created by merging Activision (a lone company) and Vivendi Entertainment (owned by Vivendi) to create the new company. The reason it says 56% ownership is because they have only that much controlling power. I don't know enough to go into detail, but it comes down to some form of financial support. The other shareholders don't have anything to do with the creation of the company.  Star fox  Roy  18:34, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Nationality
People seem to be mixed up when it comes to the nationality of the company. Just because the parent company is French, doesn't mean that the company itself is. Activision Blizzard is not based in, does not develop in, and has nothing to do with France in any way shape or form. It is based in the USA, nowhere else at all. The only tiny bit of France in this company is it's parent company, Vivendi, and does this article talk about Vivendi? NO, so leave it in the United States.  ♦Leo- Roy review me 12:31, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Its a French owned American company, pretty simple. 81.132.135.107 (talk) 21:55, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, exactly. Unfortunately, some people failed to grasp this concept.  Leo- Roy! review/gb 22:51, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * No, it is not French owned as it is a publicly traded company and not a subsidiary of Vivendi. Vivendi is the majority share holder and thus has a controlling stake in the company but they are not the owners. Activision Blizzard is an American company as their Headquarters are based in the United States. They are not a French company and they are not French owned. Drasill (talk) 17:41, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
 * The problem is that people don't understand the difference between controlled and owned. --70.231.139.7 (talk) 17:02, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Lack of Quality
Since the merger between Activision, I have noticed a steep decline in the quality of the two companies. Activision itself has seemed to become a greedy powerhouse that is looking to nothing but monopoly. Understandible, if it makes money, you do it. However, from experience I have in playing their games, especially World of Warcraft. That game has suffered since it's first expansion, and ever since the merger, noticable radical changes are being made. Many of which, none like. However, another little thing that they have done, was attempting to whip Infinity Ward. Now, that story makes for great justice, but it just another example of how downhill this company is going. Just wish that sometimes corporations would care about what the buyers want, and not what the buyers have in their wallets. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.107.112.147 (talk) 02:18, 26 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Mostly I would agree with you, but Mists if Pandaria was and is a pretty good expansion. For the most part, though, the merger with Activision has been mostly bad for Blizzard. The Activision influence was clearly seen in Diablo III which is one of the worst games ever produced by Blizzard and Activision's influence was probably instrumental in the inclusion of the now removed real-money auction house. --70.231.139.7 (talk) 17:08, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

ABS Co-President!
Stacy Sher is now co-president of Activision blizzard studios! http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/647099-activision-blizzard-names-stacey-sher-co-president-to-bring-games-to-film-tv (Crazybob2014 (talk) 19:30, 13 January 2016 (UTC))

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