Not to make this political, but to my American friends: remember when Nancy Pelosi stated that she was suddenly fine with banning stock trading for Congress members? Well, the prevailing, popular bill in the House is toothless and still makes it easy to cheat and trade stocks. It's about the PR and verbalizing the intent in a popular space to appease the masses. In reality, the bill is terrible and shows no real commitment to change.

Large corporations like Microsoft (even Sony and Nintendo) are very much "I'll believe it when I see it" status. Even the mention of "Microsoft says it will not object to Activision Blizzard recognizing internal unionization efforts" is suspicious. Not objecting does not suggest they will not have a thumb on the scale for the outcome.

More directly, stating that "Microsoft will not stand in the way if Activision Blizzard recognizes a union,” is tricky language, perhaps intentionally. Notice the very conditional 'if' there. Thus, if* they DON'T recognize the union, Microsoft won't either. What would be really awful is if they dissolved Activision-Blizzard as it is known and changed the name and said all bets are off because "that was Activision-Blizzard who recognized the union... But we're Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard. "

It sounds oddly nefarious, but you really cannot take their words for it.

What you all miss is one Important fact. They can’t comment or promise anything to employees of a company they don’t own. Until the deal is sealed, they can’t even respond to any requests. So I’m not sure what these employees are expecting.

I wont happen; they will continue to work independently of each other.

To make a candy shooter games? Doesn't seem wise to me.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau