Activision-Blizzard sale may head to open market
By Tim Colwill on July 14, 2012 at 1:21 pm
A new report by Bloomberg suggests that Vivendi may be struggling to find a buyer for their 61 percent stake in Activision-Blizzard. At a recent conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, the Vivendi chairman Jean-Rene Fourtou admitted the sale was a “possibility” – but sources within Microsoft, Take-Two and Walt Disney are apparently not too keen on the idea, despite reports just days earlier. If a private buyer cannot be found, Vivendi may have to sell their shares publicly, which Bloomberg speculates will lead to a falling of Activision-Blizzard share prices as demand for the stock is low. Faced with uncertain times ahead, Activision’s CEO Bobby Kotick brushed off speculation when asked about a sale, commenting instead that it was “great weather”.
Source: Bloomberg
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Go valve, go! Really hope that they acquire the company and install Gaben in Kotick’s position, damn i hate that guy.
What makes you think Valve has the money or wants to buy ActiBlizzard? Blizzard maybe not certainly not activision.
I may be wrong but isn’t Gabe newell currently worth more than acti-blizz ?
Anyways gamers should band together buy that 61% share and boot kotick out and install a new CEO that won’t DRM the hell out of games and over charge based on region
spooler,
“gamers should band together” that very unlikely that is going to work
I said should nto that it is likly going to happen
o god I wish I could edit that post
Not* Likely*
forever shall that terrible sentence stain the forums
Vivendi realise Activision-Blizzard has peaked this time around and obviously thought companies such as Microsoft wouldn’t be able to figure that out as well. duhhh. lol
I was still in primary school when blizzard brought out a new IP. Terrible.