5 Things Microsoft Needs To Bring Back After Buying Activision Blizzard

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As you may have seen, Microsoft just bought Activision Blizzard King in a deal worth $70 billion. If you haven't heard, then we have failed terribly - this is one of the biggest news stories to hit our medium ever. It's six times as expensive as the second biggest acquisition, and it comes off the back of a series of huge scandals for ABK involving harassment, discrimination, workplace abuse, and murder threats. This is a big story with lots of pieces to it, lots of angles to consider, lots of repercussions for various lawsuits, the pursuit of justice, the fate of abusers, and the well-being of employees. So naturally, there's only one thing to do - chat about all the cool games Activision owned but screwed up that Microsoft can now make! Yay, gaming!

I love this game. It's been my GOTY for the past few years, and I just can't get enough of it. A live-service title made by multiple studios, it keeps getting a load of really weird updates. Sometimes it gets huge buffs for the workers, such as the Unionisation Patch, the Four Day Week Patch, and the No Crunch Patch. Unfortunately, these come with massive nerfs from elsewhere, like the Crunch Patch, the Crunch Again Patch, and the Death March Crunch Patch. ABK have been dropping a lot of nerfs over the past decade, to the point where they're being sued for being a terrible company that treats its workers terribly, by shutting down studios, cracking down on unionisation, and allowing a culture to fester where male employees would crawl around on their hands and knees while drinking beer and peer up women's skirts.

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Microsoft, on the whole, seems to be pushing buffs more often than nerfs. The problem with games is that if you