Xbox Needs to Address the Activision Blizzard Elephant in the Room Eventually

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When it comes to the gaming world, there hasn't been news of the size and scope of Microsoft reaching a deal to acquire Activision Blizzard for quite some time. Indeed, when news broke that Microsoft was going to own Activision Blizzard (or ABK) it shook social media right down to its core. There was hardly anyone remotely involved in the industry talking about anything else.

Once shock and surprise wore off, the questions started to roll across social media. Right at the top of the list was "how did Microsoft pull this off?" After all, the deal meant that the Xbox maker was coming up with $68.7 billion dollars in order to purchase a firm that itself was once two separate entities. Those two separate entities were plenty well-known and powerful in the video game world all on their own with titles like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft under their respective umbrellas.

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There was another question that slowly started gaining steam that was actually tied to all the others not long after the acquisition became news. It was a question that doesn't necessarily need to be answered today, but it's definitely a question that needs to be answered at some point, and it can't wait all that long. That question is, "when will Xbox address the rather large elephant sitting in the corner of the room, wearing an Activision Blizzard t-shirt?"

It's entirely possible that there are some people out there that don't know the full history of Activision Blizzard or just why the company was having so many financial problems. After all, the main reason this deal went down is, at its core, the fact that ABK's stock price was falling, and it