News Activision-Blizzard buys King.com for $5.9 billion

Stupid amount of money, these silly apps..... at some point there will be saturation, followed by a plateau in growth followed by a steady decline as the market becomes more and more diluted.

You only have to look at declining cell phone sales to see we're nearing that point now - I'd say the owners of King.com just pulled off a blinder of a sale... my opinion is that this was a poor acquisition by Activision-Blizzard.

 

I'm guessing having your game packaged with Microsoft's latest OS makes the deal all the sweeter.

 

King.com just pulled out a sweet deal. Zynga and Rovio should've taught Activision-Blizzard to stay away from these kinds of ventures.

 

The problem with those devs is that they bloated their staff and attempted to diversify from a single premise.
King is sticking rigidly to the crap Tetris formula rigidly, and the public keep lapping it up. All on a ,relatively shoestring, staff.

 

Or EA's Popcap acquisition.

When you buy the company at the top of the market, the only way is down. I suppose this is like the forced merger of Activision-Blizzard, it's lets them say they're the market leader to the shareholders.