Activision-Blizzard and their financial future
Barron’s has a long article up about Blizzard’s corporate overlords at Activision-Blizzard, and as is usual with most pieces of Activision news, people will probably see in it what they want to see. Those who think Bobby Kotick is just a money-grubbing exploiter will find more fuel for their firey fanboy rage: apparently he’s a follower of Las Vegas casino entrepreneur Steve Wynn, and is modeling some of Activision-Blizzard’s business plan off of that guy, Shareholders, however, will probably be thrilled. In terms of a purely financial sense, Activision-Blizzard is apparently one of the shinest futures around, with Kotick bragging that videogames will eclipse film and TV in terms of moneymaking in just a few years. From our perspective, as longtime fans and players of Blizzard’s games, the most interesting thing I see here is that Barron’s makes no distinction at all between Activision and Blizzard any more — the Activision-Blizzard company, according to the article, is equally responsible for both the Starcraft and Transformers franchises. Obviously, as gamers, we see a huge distinction between those two: one is a classic, storied,
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