Evidence receipt / prediction
Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: prediction
13 Jul 2017 Acquired Activision Blizzard
“I think that what would have happened otherwise, I don’t think we would see Overwatch and I don’t think we would see a lot of the character of Blizzard Activision as it is today without that Activision component.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- prediction
- Recorded
- 13 Jul 2017
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Activision Blizzard
Transcript context
…Wow. They are building up this game and the ability to buy a franchise in the competitive world of esports as being like the next big thing and you’d be a fool to miss out and it’s extremely expensive because of that. I think that what would have happened otherwise, I don’t think we would see Overwatch and I don’t think we would see a lot of the character of Blizzard Activision as it is today without that Activision component. Yup. It might be interesting, and again, I don’t think I know enough about the industry to really speculate here but Valve and Riot, Valve obviously does many things within gaming as we’ve talked about on episodes past. But with DOTA2 that they control and then Riot with League of Legends, they’ve become huge companies and so powerful. But had Blizzard not been kind of put into its own sort of independent gaming focused company with Activision, maybe Valve and Riot would be even more powerful and Blizzard wouldn’t be even part of the picture.…
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