I was borderline confused the entire time reading this article. Not about what he said, but how he was doing his best to find someone / somehow, that acquiring Activision tied into the "Metaverse" when his examples were all AWFUL.
This has nothing to do with the Metaverse. I don't understand tip-toeing around this, it was to grow their gaming business / specifically subscriptions which is the sales model Microsoft wants in all their departments (GamePass, MS Office, Azure Cloud are all divisions that have moved or are attempting to go full subscription based). They saw an opportunity to obtain ownership of one of the biggest franchises in gaming along with several other established IPs to grow first party publishing, and they took it. There's nothing wrong with that or saying it.
Seems like a diversion tactic to get this to sail through the federal government with ease - and it'll probably work since our government has no idea about technology & games.
I mean it's total BS. It's not like Activision has some secret sauce tech that they're bringing to the table. It was 100% an IP and production bandwidth play, not a tech play.
It's not what most people think. He's referring to the workspace if the future where you'll have some people in person and other people virtually coming in to join in a much more interactive way than Teams does currently. Avatars, shared virtual space, and how people connect in the future. His point is that kinda sounds like what we do in video games right? They want to use their gaming experience to help build this metaverse.
I’m constantly hearing these losers gushing over buzz words like the latest “meta verse” I’m just glad this latest one seems to fail at every single mention of it. I’m glad so many of these nonces are investing in it and I’ll be even more glad when it crashes around them hopefully burning them in the process.
OMG, so he wants 3d conference calls build on gaming engines. He could have just used free Unreal 5 acc.
Yeah, shopping is so hard by scrolling a web page. Lets put this giant metal spear inside your head instead. You'll also have a 30 day trial to learn Kung fu
I definitely will avoid it because MS and Facebook are the two biggest companies pushing this bullshit and I know it’s just a way for them to milk money from people more than they do now . F yours subs ! They want subs within subs and it’s going to be real ugly but people will say stuff like “it’s a great value” with the 10 sub services they put into one .
This from MS: the billion dollar multinational company that can't break into - physical - mobile phones, only has browser on most PC cause its built into their OS, and is really only still in gaming because of bottomless vaults to make up for massive mistakes with Xbox. That they had to buy Activision - for half of the whole industry's annual profit - just to stay in the game.
The point is that they've had more major misses in the division in question that anyone sane, an exec not in denial of reality if such a thing exists, would accept.
Just one problem.. Kotick and co scared off all the good people who actually were good at game building, what they have left is leeching off of already existing stuff.
Build the metaverse Nani but how I'm confused?
Seems like a diversion tactic to get this to sail through the federal government with ease - and it'll probably work since our government has no idea about technology & games.
Just wow. Equal parts cringe and goose bumps.
I dont know what the metaverse is but i already dont like it.