• sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    As somebody who has spent years and years working for ABK and Xbox, my prediction is this integration will be hardest for King.

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      1 year ago

      How so? I remember King being a primary target of the acquisition

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        1 year ago

        AB and Xbox are both North American corporate culture companies, for better or worse. King is very much a Swedish company, and spends a lot of time on the softer side of management.

        King was already struggling fitting into AB culture. That work-24/7, Drive for Success™️, I-read-six-books-week-and-get-up-at-4-am-to-exercise culture will now be driven up to 11.

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          1 year ago

          To be fair to Microsoft… Mojang has seemingly been doing gret as another Swedish company under their roof. This might actually be a reprieve from Activision Blizzard management?

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            1 year ago

            100% Xbox is better lead than AB and Phil Spencer is an awesome person and an awesome leader. So in that respect there might be more time for King post-acquisition. But let’s wait and see