Breaking: Microsoft bought Bethesda for 7.5 Billion (Breaking Microsoft bought Activision/Blizzard!!!) Jesus Christ!!
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Xbox Buys Bethesda and Parent Company ZeniMax Media
Microsoft now owns The Elder Scrolls, Starfield, Doom and more.
By Joe Skrebels
Updated: 21 Sep 2020 8:14 am
Posted: 21 Sep 2020 8:07 am
Xbox has announced that it has acquired ZeniMax Media, and with it Bethesda Softworks, creators and publishers of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Doom, Dishonored, Quake, Starfield and more.
Announced by Head of Xbox Phil Spencer in an Xbox Wire post today, Microsoft acquired ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion – 3 times the $2.5 billion it paid for Mojang and Minecraft in 2014. The deal includes ZeniMax media as a whole, Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios.
Xbox says it "will be adding Bethesda’s iconic franchises to Xbox Game Pass for console and PC."
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Microsoft now owns The Elder Scrolls, Starfield, Doom and more.
By Joe Skrebels
Updated: 21 Sep 2020 8:14 am
Posted: 21 Sep 2020 8:07 am
Xbox has announced that it has acquired ZeniMax Media, and with it Bethesda Softworks, creators and publishers of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Doom, Dishonored, Quake, Starfield and more.
Announced by Head of Xbox Phil Spencer in an Xbox Wire post today, Microsoft acquired ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion – 3 times the $2.5 billion it paid for Mojang and Minecraft in 2014. The deal includes ZeniMax media as a whole, Bethesda Softworks, Bethesda Game Studios, id Software, ZeniMax Online Studios, Arkane, MachineGames, Tango Gameworks, Alpha Dog, and Roundhouse Studios.
Xbox says it "will be adding Bethesda’s iconic franchises to Xbox Game Pass for console and PC."
Microsoft to Buy Bethesda and Parent Company ZeniMax Media [Update] - IGN
Microsoft has announced that it will acquire ZeniMax Media, and with it Bethesda, creators of creators of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, DOOM, Dishonored, Quake, Starfield and more.
THis shit is bananas!!!
How is a nigga supposed to get anything done right now... this shit is crazy.
I'm too much of a novice gamer to understand what any of this means 
They Also Bought Obsidian.... Which Means We Will Finally Get a Proper Fallout
Hell now that they own Bethesda ... they can have them do a proper fallout.. LOL
but Fallout New Vegas 2 is coming
I'm too much of a novice gamer to understand what any of this means
It means Microsoft paid 7.5 Billion to get one of the biggest video game studios in the business
Sony showed two games that they were counting on for their next gen console that will now be times exclusives and will eventually end up playable on gamepass.... this is the biggest game news of 2020
Like this is huge ..... almost up there with buying Activision or EA .. this is HUGE!!!
U a fool B.Not into gaming, so I have no idea what this means.
Thought Bill Gates purchased Bethesda, MD.
Thats great for Microsoft and Xbox but what about Warner Studio's, The makers of the Batman Arkham Knight series and Mortal Kombat Franchises? Thats the one I really want them to go after. Sony has Spiderman as an exclusive. Batman exclusive to Xbox would be huge, however good for the casual gamer, I dont really understand the Gamepass deal. Seems to me that they would earn more having customers outright buy the exclusive games as opposed to putting them on the Gamepass subscription service. Does anyone know anymore financially about this?
Damn, this could get interesting. I need a new Elders Scrolls. Guess I'm pre ordering that Xbox tomorrow.
In the long run... gamepass will make way more money for them then the individual sales .... Like you can still buy the game, but you can also pay monthly for a subscription fee.
I think once WB said that they were not going to sell Warner Studio ... Microsoft went aggressively for another buy and even though Warner Studio has some huge IP's there was no guarantee that buying Rocksteady would bring the license for Batman ... Sony has the movie and game rights for Spiderman. Rocksteady does not.
But this is a much much bigger buy..
Zenimax - owns way more games with HUGE franchises
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Ok, I do see your point. But I have had Game pass since its inception and have never paid full price for it. Wouldnt it be wiser to release the first studio exclusives maybe like 6mos down the road instead of day and date? Usually when the hardcore want a new game, they purchase it within 6 months of release anyways. I do see your point though. I guess MS knows what they're doing...I guess.
I'm curious what the impact will be for PC exclusive gamers like myself. I guess this is a good thing right?
Microsoft is consumer friendly this shit will still be on PC and with gamepass ... these games will be free on PC ...
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I hope the quality doesn't go down.
Skyrim has been sitting on my pc for years... was just able to finish the main story last month.
Still is a ton that haven't been done yet...even before the mods.
Skyrim has been sitting on my pc for years... was just able to finish the main story last month.
Still is a ton that haven't been done yet...even before the mods.
Skyrim is probably my all time favorite game.
A product vs. a service.
People only a buy a game one time, never have to buy it again. One transaction, one payment.
When you provide a service, you get paid multiple times consistently. On top of the money from the consumers, you can throw in extra sources of income in the service like advertising, use that service to sell their other products, or if they get paid from the studios for placement, stuff like that. I'm sure they got it set up to where it's lucrative in the long run.
I'm so glad I bought Microsoft when it was $20
You don't know what this means...?I'm too much of a novice gamer to understand what any of this means
Well for one it means... ahh....hold on it coming to me
It means.....ahh ahh....
I'm too much of a novice gamer to understand what any of this means
to be honest M$ should have been throwing their weight around long before thisMicrosoft looked at Sony like....."oh yeah?"
this is a chess move equivalent to losing both your knights lol
