The whole world is talking about the acquisition of Activision by Microsoft, since it is officially known that the company directed by Satya Nadella He was thinking of taking over Activision here, everyone has already given their opinion. The deal has been significantly delayed over time and although the purchase now appears to have stalled, Microsoft hopes to close it in the early months of 2023.
On this occasion, the person who came forward to comment on the acquisition was the former producer of Bioware, Marc Darra. The creative left his opinion on this purchase, evaluating that if, on the one hand, it could be positive to clean up the image of Activision, on the other hand, he sees in it a loss of creativity and freedom for the studios .
Against the takeover of Activision by Microsoft
This acquisition will likely have negative long-term effects. Of course, in the short term, the marriage between Activision Blizzard and Microsoft should be a positive thing.
I say this because it seems like Activision needs someone to clean up the culture around Activision but operations like that are usually a bad thing because once you take over a company , you also start wanting to control costs and this is usually , is reflected in investments and in creativity and risk taking.
The last works Darrah worked on at Bioware were Mass Effect Andromeda and Anthem.
