Activision Blizzard sure is in some hot water these days right? Notice how I said “Activision Blizzard” and not “Activision” or even just “Blizzard”? Yeah, there’s a reason for that. Today, I am going to talk about the Activision Vivendi games merger because no one seems to understand it. “Who is Vivendi games?” you might be asking? Why, they’re the company that owned Blizzard and bought out Activision. Yes, Activision was the one bought out; with a very great reason why. Let’s go over this part of modern gaming history that is widely misunderstood and purposefully misrepresented.
Before I continue with the buyout I feel it is important to talk about the original companies. First let’s go over Activision, after all they’re first in the name. Activision was formed when a bunch of Atari programmers left Atari because they were tired of Atari’s shit. Bad management, rushed deadlines, not enough manpower, and no royalties. Atari sued them because Activision was making “illegal Atari” carts. Courts disagreed giving Activision more power to produce more games and allowing more devs from Atari to leave and form their own studios. This is what I believe to be what really killed Atari. After growing they went into more business ventures and then changed their company name. Bobby Kotick, the current CEO, then purchased the company and turned it around from bankruptcy to the powerhouse it is today.
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