Blizzard Unaffected by Activision/Vivendi Merger

After previously learning from Activision Blizzard’s Thomas Tippl that workforce cuts would be a necessity, MCV has confirmed with the CFO that Blizzard Entertainment will not be part of that particular equation.

(Blizzard has established the most successful business in all of video games,) he told MCV. (It’s not like we need to go there and fix something. Blizzard will continue to operate as they have done in the past fairly independently.

(They have a top notch management and development team and we have a very high degree of confidence that they know how to run the business and a track record to prove it. In addition, they have an extraordinarily strong product pipeline, with Starcraft, Wrath of the Lich King and Diablo 3.

(It would be a big mistake for us to distract them with new ideas.)

Let’s hope it stays like this. If some suit suddenly decides in a year or two that things need to change at Blizzard, they’ll have millions of angry gamers looking for blood.