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Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets preliminary approval from UK regulator (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The issue is not not players of devs, but the management that probably doesn't think it's profitable enough anymore. Yet, Microsoft manages to keep AoE2 going with an even smaller playerbase than SC2.

So MS taking over an abandon francise I care about sounds pretty sweet to me.