Instead of Microsoft Deal: Kotick actively wanted to sell Activision Blizzard on Facebook

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Yesterday's message about Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard suggested like a bomb and from unexpected revelation, not only many questions arise, there are also a series of details about the deal, CEO Bobby Kick and the future around Activision Blizzard to light.

While Xbox boss Phil Spencer remains vague regarding a possible exclusivity of Activision Blizzard games on Microsoft platforms, a lot turns into the acquisition around Bobby Kick itself. Kick always made headlines in the last few weeks and months because he himself kneeled was involved in the company's sexism scandal.

Kick was not happy with Microsoft — and searched other interested parties

As part of the acquisition of Microsoft , Kick and his future are again in the limelight. And while he remains in office until the final conclusion of the purchase and probably a juicy compensation may emit further details on Kicks.

For as Bloomberg reports, the CEO did not want to sell at Microsoft . After the company written behind Windows interested in a purchase, Kick once again turned on other potential prospects , including Facebook :

Even as Activision tried to save its own reputation in players and investors — the shares fell by about 15% in the month after the Wall Street Journal article — and the potential takeover down, Kick and the board were not enthusiastic about Microsoft As a buyer, as two of the matter betrayed related persons.

Activision phoned around to find other interested parties, the persons who do not want to be called how they talk about private conversations. Among them was also Facebook's Mutterfirma Meta platform Inc. and at least another big company. But there was no one More serious interest. Spencer refused to respond to the exact negotiations in an interview. A speaker of Meta refused any statement and a representative of Activision did not answer our request.

So one of the other interested parties would have hit, yesterday's headlines would have adorned another name instead of Microsoft. Incidentally, it came to another Deal, where Kick should have had his fingers in the game. Allegedly, the CEO wanted to buy the magazines PC Gamer and Kodak for better reporting. Fortunately, it has also not become nothing.