Since he started buying studios like Obsidian Entertainment or InXile Entertainment to fatten Xbox Game Studios back in 2018, Microsoft understands that the RPG genre It is key in the commitment of a company that seeks to reach the largest possible number of players. Therefore, the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft is not only good news for shooter lovers, as my colleague points out, but also for RPG lovers. Do not forget that Activision-Blizzard is responsible for two classic franchises of the genre that did their bit to make the PC the gaming platform that it is today. I speak of Devil and World of Warcraft, Clear.
In 2020, after the purchase of Bethesda by Microsoft, I already talked about this same topic, as Xbox became the next benchmark for the western role for the next few years. Xbox currently covers a large part of the most important role-playing subgenres in the industry, both first-person RPGs and Fallout, The Elder Scrolls or The Outer Worlds, classic RPGs like wasteland, Action RPGS with fable and even MMORPGs with The Elder Scrolls Online. The purchase of Activision-Blizzard comes to reinforce and expand that hegemony, Diablo is the benchmark within the genre Action RPG dungeon crawler in isometric view, just as World of Warcraft is within the Western MMORPGs, although both do not go through their peak of popularity.
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It is not yet clear what will happen from now on with the Activision-Blizzard franchises after this agreement, but it may be the perfect time to return the glory lost in recent years to these classic franchises. Not only making Diablo IV the best possible installment or continuing to expand the support and content of World of Warcraft, expanding its universes with different proposals for all types of audiences. Take advantage of services like Xbox Game Pass and XCloud to provide new game experiences, new ways to discover their universes and go beyond the classic schemes. We will have to wait a while to see what happens from now on, but the future looks promising.