You can’t start 50 game studios. Hiring the talent is virtually impossible nowadays. The time it takes is decades to build strong and competent development studios.A whole 30 million? Just to put it in perspective 1 billion is 1000 million. Microsoft paid 68,000 million for Activision. It’s unfathomable the amount of money they spent on this. Microsoft could’ve easily started 50 game studios for what they just paid for this. I think someone is drunk at the wheel.
Microsoft are cash rich. They had 136billion dollars sitting ready for investments and that was 6 months ago. Probably 150 billion now and rising. They have a strategy and they can expand in this way. Activision would normally be an impossible by. But circumstances allowed it.