Disagree. If Bungie were still under Activision's thumb, then this would be a good idea. Being bought out by MS will likely make Call of Duty BETTER (and less of a cash cow), and will give Blizzard the space they need to create the "curated" games that they like to make. (MS gave 343 6 years to make Halo Infinite...and didn't hesitate to give them an additional year when it looked like it wasn't ready). But Bungie is free of Activision, and is using that freedom to make many of the same "good" calls that MS tends to make when it comes to releasing games from their owned companies (subsidiaries). In the end, Bungie wouldn't benefit from being bought out....and MS and Bungie have danced this dance before and Bungie has made it clear that they are done with someone else tellign them what to do, and dipping into their profits. OTOH, companies like AB and Bethesda will likely get better as a result of their being owned by MS. Bethesda has gotten "lazy" (hate that word). They have gotten into the habit of releasing undercooked games, with buggy, dated gameplay on an obsolete engine. Then relying on a modding community to fix them. Being owned by MS will give them the time and space (if they choose to use it) to update their tools and even create a MODERN engine (like 343 did for Halo Infinite). Activision will no longer have to crank out CoD games every year in order to keep Wall Street happy, because its finances will now be under the MS umbrella...and shielded from that kind of growth-at-any-cost pressure. They'll have time and space to make CoD games that are better, and put them out less frequently. Like Ubisoft did with Assassin's Creed games once they fought off that hostile takeover. They started releasing them every OTHER year....and they got better as a result. They started giving them ongoing support post-launch...and they got better still. (Activision will also be freed from a CEO (Looking at you Kotick) who acted more like a corporate raider in the obscene amounts of money he was taking out of the company in compensation, rather an executive in a company he wished to see thrive. ) Blizzard was slowly being undermined by the same pressures that were facing Activision...and I think it led to the decrease in quality of World of Warcraft...and the exodus that game is now facing. Being bought out by MS also frees them up form that Wall Street pressure, and the potential to once again become that boutique/up-market game dev that long-term gamers see them as. In fact, Blizzard is a cautionary tale of being careful about you hop into bed with businesswise. The merger with Activision helped Activsion, but arguably hurt Blizzard and its reputation. Just like it did to Bungie when they did it to bring Destiny to market. The issue with Destiny is that you have a player base that expects World of Warcraft service at Fortnite prices....and that's just not going to happen. Persistent world games are expensive to make and maintain....as all of Destiny's potential competitors found out. As they failed because their creators either couldn't or wouldn't resource them properly. Bungie is hiring aggressively to increase their resources to make content. But this community needs to get real about the amount of financial support from us that is going to require if we want that kind of game.