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I would just like to note that the editor who has added the bulk of the worlds lawsuit over the years (since 2014), is an SPA for Worlds. Please see here: /info/en/?search=User_talk:Patentplays, and consider disallowing all their live edits to the page, and requesting they utitilize this talk page to bring up their requests. Earflaps ( talk) 16:03, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Unfortunately, User:Earflaps made a bunch of inexplicable edits in March 2016 that indicate a lack of understanding of the difference between subsidiaries and divisions. A subsidiary is a legal entity that is owned in part or in whole by another entity. A division is merely a business unit within an existing business but not a separate legal entity.
Any objections before I clean up this mess? -- Coolcaesar ( talk) 23:00, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hi fellow editors, I noticed that considering the size and importance of this company, the article leaves much to be desired. I have some ideas on how to make some improvements, and wonder if anyone would like to take part, and not just revert edits, which I notice happens a lot, but to add to the article as far as content and structure. I would like to begin with a separate section on the company's venture into film production. What say you? ApplePieRising ( talk) 11:23, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
I decided to start a new section, all the colons were making me crazy. Thanks for moving over the content Lordtobi. However, I think the content on the main page concerning the movie studio can stand to be a little more developed than what is left, while the content on the "studios" page can also be developed more. There is plenty of information on line. When the holidays are over I hope to expand both. There seems to be plenty of information on-line that would be of interest to Wiki readers. I hope you agree. Happy Holidays!! ApplePieRising ( talk) 09:19, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
I think it is important, when describing the company in the opening sentence of the article, that we use words that are as accurate as possible. Therefore, I believe, and I hope you will see my POV, that the company is much more than a video game holding company, since it is involved in film-making and esports, etc. and a better description is the broader "Interactive Entertainment." I am changing the description back to this. ApplePieRising ( talk) 07:53, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
The infobox looks terrible with a description of the logo there. I am taking the description out of the infobox, and adding a new section about the logo in the body of the article, if you feel such a clarification of the logo is needed. Otherwise, since the logo's derivation is self-explanatory, perhaps no discussion at all is needed. So either a new section in the body, or no discussion at all. ApplePieRising ( talk) 08:02, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians. Full disclosure, I work for TaxWatch UK.
In August 2019, we published a report explaining how Activision Blizzard shifted €5bn to companies in Bermuda and Barbados between 2013-2017. This shifting of profits using royalty payments to tax haven companies is the same scheme used by Google, which has been heavily criticised by MPs.
This report was picked up by multiple outlets, including GamesIndustry and The Sunday Times,
I would like for a small section to be included on the Activision Blizzard Wikipedia page. However, given the conflict of interest, I believe that someone else should make that edit.
Happy to answer any questions on the report.
Thanks,
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Hi all, It is clear that the fact that Tencent owns 5% of Activision Blizzard is not enough of a reason to list Tencent as an owner in the infobox. Please look at /info/en/?search=Template:Infobox_company where it states in the "owner" field to "Use this field for publicly traded companies only when the owner is a long-term strategic owner such as an affiliate or founding family." Also, see this discussion /info/en/?search=Template_talk:Infobox_company/Archive_9#Owner_field where the conclusion is not to list owners with such a small stake; and this discussion /info/en/?search=Template_talk:Infobox_company/Archive_10#Slight_change_to_%22owner%22_tag where it was decided that for a public company "ONLY in the case for name and percentage of a large long-term strategic owner (I'm thinking like TD Bank's 42% ownership of TD Ameritrade, or the Walton family's 51% ownership of Walmart, and similar)." I am removing the parameter. Thanks. ApplePieRising ( talk) 10:41, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
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Below the heading "Corporate structure", find the sentence "There are also two non-reporting segments within Activition Blizzard" and please correct the spelling of the word "Activision" so that the sentence reads "There are also two non-reporting segments within Activision Blizzard". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.99.54.98 ( talk • contribs)
The whole debacle has very quickly spiraled into something quite huge, with considerable media coverage and more information coming out all the time. Trying to fully detail it might be out of scope for this article alone, the section already makes up almost 1/3rd of the entire page and is rapidly growing. There is precedent for this; see the Blitzchung controversy. A separate article would also allow for better organisation of information. Thoughts? 78.152.233.71 ( talk) 09:15, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
@ ForTheGoodOfAllofUs: there is zero requirement that all lawsuits about a company be in one section, and the fact that I renamed that section "other lawsuits" is sufficient to acknowledge the DHEF version is discussed already.
As the other factor, even before my change, there were already plenty of non-official statements related to the acquisition in the acquisition section. And because we have several RSes that indicate the DHEF lawsuit was part of the reason for the acquisition (including Kotick's own statements), it 100% makes sense to describe the events in a chronological order with the lawsuit and then subsequent acquisition. -- Masem ( t) 13:22, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
The DFEH can be under history as long as it mentioned at least in the manner of "see main article", otherwise it appears as a cleanup of the article to put information under the rug. Furthermore the new flow of information pertaining to the deal itself you set does not do well, on differing between official and outlet "leaks" which have significant gaps in terms of information. It also does not in line with public discussion on the deal pertaining to Kotick's position as CEO. I intend to restore the flow of information to how it was before in those while maintaining DFEH being in history for your request. If you have specifics on the matter of how the merger is handled let me know. ForTheGoodOfAllofUs ( talk) 13:33, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
You seem to ignore what I'm saying. Placement can be resolved with a link to "see main article" to acknowledge to acknowledge the lawsuit in legal disputes without putting the info "under the rag" buried within the article. With further more smaller adjustment such as "according to", etc. I think we can get here to a solution that keeps your will to put DFEH in history while maintaining flow and "story" information in the article properly because right now there are some misleading points. ForTheGoodOfAllofUs ( talk) 14:35, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
The lawsuit has a main article, and it has to be at least linked in the legal section, no expansion needed if it's in history. There are some flaws in portraying the story. If Kotick's position takes a significant portion of public reaction to the deal, which follows mishandling with the board, then they shall be portrayed one after another as in the original version. Furthermore with several claims here and there with significant gaps, it's important to maintain "Who said what" as in part with Wikipedia. Particular with one point the deal does not seal Kotick position as CEO as might be portrayed from the new way of putting the info. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ForTheGoodOfAllofUs ( talk • contribs) 15:13, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
Haven't said anything was expanded. The way some information was moved and some connection words were dropped, may create a disambiguation that fails to portrait the situation, without the need to assume WSJ, Bloomberg and others are correct or not, as this is not or job decide as wikipedia editors. In any way, the lawsuit and the WSJ article have a role in the stock price, which appears if anything to be a big reason for the acquisition, as portrayed by all sources and sides. We could agree on the current formulation with the added "according to official announcements" (I'll have to review the section again for any case), as said it's not our job as wikipedia editors to decide whether articles such as the WSJ entail the correct trailing of the future with that article saying he will leave or not. I do hope we could also get to an agreement of having the lawsuit in the legal section as well. (You may have also noticed I have made further edits that are not related to our discussion here) Regards, ForTheGoodOfAllofUs ( talk) 15:49, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
Yes, it's in regarding to the future/fate with several different perspectives given (official vs leaks vs outlets etc.) , if you want to stick to semantics, but button line it needs to be needs to attributed. So currently the main point of debate seems to be whether to include a link to the lawsuit in the legal section or not, perhaps a 3rd person could make a decision on that. Pinging the last one to edit in the article, @ X-Editor: Regards, ForTheGoodOfAllofUs ( talk) 16:45, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
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CHANGE: "DFEH's lawsuit brought a second lawsuit against the company by its shareholders asserting it falsified knowledge of these problems in their financial statements" to: "The DFEH lawsuit is the source of securities class action lawsuit brought against the company by its shareholders alleging it misled its investors by failing to disclose discrimination against women and minority employees, a pervasive “frat boy” workplace culture and that numerous complaints about unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation were made to human resources personnel, putting the company at greater risk of regulatory and legal scrutiny and enforcement." TheBrios ( talk) 14:32, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Overwatch is a story that now spans multiple games i.e. a game series, perhaps the infobox could be amended to reflect that as it has done so for the other games on the list? Dasein ( talk) 14:41, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hi. I work for Activision Blizzard and am therefore not making these edits directly, but would like to open a discussion about the subsection titled Workplace misconduct lawsuit subsection in the main article. Since a standalone article has been created on the subject, I believe it would be appropriate to trim the in-article section to more of a summary, as is common practice in similar situations. Would appreciate the community's input on this, and am happy to work on the text in a draft if that would make things easier. Pinging Masem as he created that break-away article and appears to still have an active interest in the subject. Thanks for your time, Sh-abkcomms ( talk) 15:14, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, just to put this here: the Microsoft v. FTC's Judge has ruled in favor of Microsoft, lifting the FTC's block on Microsoft's acquisition. Warren, Tom. "Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard". The Verge. The Verge. Retrieved 12 July 2023. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kodalee4 ( talk • contribs) 15:30, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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On the right hand infobox, on "Parent", "Microsoft Gaming" should redirect to the existing Xbox Game Studios page. Liornz ( talk) 18:52, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
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I want to edit the Activision Blizzard article to reflect its condition after acquired by Microsoft. NawdirOtmikaz ( talk) 22:45, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
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I would just like to note that the editor who has added the bulk of the worlds lawsuit over the years (since 2014), is an SPA for Worlds. Please see here: /info/en/?search=User_talk:Patentplays, and consider disallowing all their live edits to the page, and requesting they utitilize this talk page to bring up their requests. Earflaps ( talk) 16:03, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
Unfortunately, User:Earflaps made a bunch of inexplicable edits in March 2016 that indicate a lack of understanding of the difference between subsidiaries and divisions. A subsidiary is a legal entity that is owned in part or in whole by another entity. A division is merely a business unit within an existing business but not a separate legal entity.
Any objections before I clean up this mess? -- Coolcaesar ( talk) 23:00, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
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Hi fellow editors, I noticed that considering the size and importance of this company, the article leaves much to be desired. I have some ideas on how to make some improvements, and wonder if anyone would like to take part, and not just revert edits, which I notice happens a lot, but to add to the article as far as content and structure. I would like to begin with a separate section on the company's venture into film production. What say you? ApplePieRising ( talk) 11:23, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
I decided to start a new section, all the colons were making me crazy. Thanks for moving over the content Lordtobi. However, I think the content on the main page concerning the movie studio can stand to be a little more developed than what is left, while the content on the "studios" page can also be developed more. There is plenty of information on line. When the holidays are over I hope to expand both. There seems to be plenty of information on-line that would be of interest to Wiki readers. I hope you agree. Happy Holidays!! ApplePieRising ( talk) 09:19, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
I think it is important, when describing the company in the opening sentence of the article, that we use words that are as accurate as possible. Therefore, I believe, and I hope you will see my POV, that the company is much more than a video game holding company, since it is involved in film-making and esports, etc. and a better description is the broader "Interactive Entertainment." I am changing the description back to this. ApplePieRising ( talk) 07:53, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
The infobox looks terrible with a description of the logo there. I am taking the description out of the infobox, and adding a new section about the logo in the body of the article, if you feel such a clarification of the logo is needed. Otherwise, since the logo's derivation is self-explanatory, perhaps no discussion at all is needed. So either a new section in the body, or no discussion at all. ApplePieRising ( talk) 08:02, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello fellow Wikipedians. Full disclosure, I work for TaxWatch UK.
In August 2019, we published a report explaining how Activision Blizzard shifted €5bn to companies in Bermuda and Barbados between 2013-2017. This shifting of profits using royalty payments to tax haven companies is the same scheme used by Google, which has been heavily criticised by MPs.
This report was picked up by multiple outlets, including GamesIndustry and The Sunday Times,
I would like for a small section to be included on the Activision Blizzard Wikipedia page. However, given the conflict of interest, I believe that someone else should make that edit.
Happy to answer any questions on the report.
Thanks,
Alex Alex0190 ( talk) 11:21, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi all, It is clear that the fact that Tencent owns 5% of Activision Blizzard is not enough of a reason to list Tencent as an owner in the infobox. Please look at /info/en/?search=Template:Infobox_company where it states in the "owner" field to "Use this field for publicly traded companies only when the owner is a long-term strategic owner such as an affiliate or founding family." Also, see this discussion /info/en/?search=Template_talk:Infobox_company/Archive_9#Owner_field where the conclusion is not to list owners with such a small stake; and this discussion /info/en/?search=Template_talk:Infobox_company/Archive_10#Slight_change_to_%22owner%22_tag where it was decided that for a public company "ONLY in the case for name and percentage of a large long-term strategic owner (I'm thinking like TD Bank's 42% ownership of TD Ameritrade, or the Walton family's 51% ownership of Walmart, and similar)." I am removing the parameter. Thanks. ApplePieRising ( talk) 10:41, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
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Below the heading "Corporate structure", find the sentence "There are also two non-reporting segments within Activition Blizzard" and please correct the spelling of the word "Activision" so that the sentence reads "There are also two non-reporting segments within Activision Blizzard". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.99.54.98 ( talk • contribs)
The whole debacle has very quickly spiraled into something quite huge, with considerable media coverage and more information coming out all the time. Trying to fully detail it might be out of scope for this article alone, the section already makes up almost 1/3rd of the entire page and is rapidly growing. There is precedent for this; see the Blitzchung controversy. A separate article would also allow for better organisation of information. Thoughts? 78.152.233.71 ( talk) 09:15, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
@ ForTheGoodOfAllofUs: there is zero requirement that all lawsuits about a company be in one section, and the fact that I renamed that section "other lawsuits" is sufficient to acknowledge the DHEF version is discussed already.
As the other factor, even before my change, there were already plenty of non-official statements related to the acquisition in the acquisition section. And because we have several RSes that indicate the DHEF lawsuit was part of the reason for the acquisition (including Kotick's own statements), it 100% makes sense to describe the events in a chronological order with the lawsuit and then subsequent acquisition. -- Masem ( t) 13:22, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
The DFEH can be under history as long as it mentioned at least in the manner of "see main article", otherwise it appears as a cleanup of the article to put information under the rug. Furthermore the new flow of information pertaining to the deal itself you set does not do well, on differing between official and outlet "leaks" which have significant gaps in terms of information. It also does not in line with public discussion on the deal pertaining to Kotick's position as CEO. I intend to restore the flow of information to how it was before in those while maintaining DFEH being in history for your request. If you have specifics on the matter of how the merger is handled let me know. ForTheGoodOfAllofUs ( talk) 13:33, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
You seem to ignore what I'm saying. Placement can be resolved with a link to "see main article" to acknowledge to acknowledge the lawsuit in legal disputes without putting the info "under the rag" buried within the article. With further more smaller adjustment such as "according to", etc. I think we can get here to a solution that keeps your will to put DFEH in history while maintaining flow and "story" information in the article properly because right now there are some misleading points. ForTheGoodOfAllofUs ( talk) 14:35, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
The lawsuit has a main article, and it has to be at least linked in the legal section, no expansion needed if it's in history. There are some flaws in portraying the story. If Kotick's position takes a significant portion of public reaction to the deal, which follows mishandling with the board, then they shall be portrayed one after another as in the original version. Furthermore with several claims here and there with significant gaps, it's important to maintain "Who said what" as in part with Wikipedia. Particular with one point the deal does not seal Kotick position as CEO as might be portrayed from the new way of putting the info. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ForTheGoodOfAllofUs ( talk • contribs) 15:13, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
Haven't said anything was expanded. The way some information was moved and some connection words were dropped, may create a disambiguation that fails to portrait the situation, without the need to assume WSJ, Bloomberg and others are correct or not, as this is not or job decide as wikipedia editors. In any way, the lawsuit and the WSJ article have a role in the stock price, which appears if anything to be a big reason for the acquisition, as portrayed by all sources and sides. We could agree on the current formulation with the added "according to official announcements" (I'll have to review the section again for any case), as said it's not our job as wikipedia editors to decide whether articles such as the WSJ entail the correct trailing of the future with that article saying he will leave or not. I do hope we could also get to an agreement of having the lawsuit in the legal section as well. (You may have also noticed I have made further edits that are not related to our discussion here) Regards, ForTheGoodOfAllofUs ( talk) 15:49, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
Yes, it's in regarding to the future/fate with several different perspectives given (official vs leaks vs outlets etc.) , if you want to stick to semantics, but button line it needs to be needs to attributed. So currently the main point of debate seems to be whether to include a link to the lawsuit in the legal section or not, perhaps a 3rd person could make a decision on that. Pinging the last one to edit in the article, @ X-Editor: Regards, ForTheGoodOfAllofUs ( talk) 16:45, 23 January 2022 (UTC)
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CHANGE: "DFEH's lawsuit brought a second lawsuit against the company by its shareholders asserting it falsified knowledge of these problems in their financial statements" to: "The DFEH lawsuit is the source of securities class action lawsuit brought against the company by its shareholders alleging it misled its investors by failing to disclose discrimination against women and minority employees, a pervasive “frat boy” workplace culture and that numerous complaints about unlawful harassment, discrimination, and retaliation were made to human resources personnel, putting the company at greater risk of regulatory and legal scrutiny and enforcement." TheBrios ( talk) 14:32, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
Overwatch is a story that now spans multiple games i.e. a game series, perhaps the infobox could be amended to reflect that as it has done so for the other games on the list? Dasein ( talk) 14:41, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
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Hi. I work for Activision Blizzard and am therefore not making these edits directly, but would like to open a discussion about the subsection titled Workplace misconduct lawsuit subsection in the main article. Since a standalone article has been created on the subject, I believe it would be appropriate to trim the in-article section to more of a summary, as is common practice in similar situations. Would appreciate the community's input on this, and am happy to work on the text in a draft if that would make things easier. Pinging Masem as he created that break-away article and appears to still have an active interest in the subject. Thanks for your time, Sh-abkcomms ( talk) 15:14, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, just to put this here: the Microsoft v. FTC's Judge has ruled in favor of Microsoft, lifting the FTC's block on Microsoft's acquisition. Warren, Tom. "Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard". The Verge. The Verge. Retrieved 12 July 2023. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kodalee4 ( talk • contribs) 15:30, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
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On the right hand infobox, on "Parent", "Microsoft Gaming" should redirect to the existing Xbox Game Studios page. Liornz ( talk) 18:52, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
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I want to edit the Activision Blizzard article to reflect its condition after acquired by Microsoft. NawdirOtmikaz ( talk) 22:45, 13 October 2023 (UTC)