Activision Buys Major League Gaming
Author: S.A.
Major League Gaming, one the reasons that children and adults everywhere practice their gaming craft hours on end, has been purchased. The gaming giant Activision Blizzards is the culprit, and they have spit out $46 Million dollars to purchase the most influential organizer of e-sports competitions to date.
Now that’s a hefty sum.
Mike Sepso, the Senior Vice President of Activision Blizzards’s e-sports department, and a man who played a heavy role in the founding of Major League Gaming many years ago says that the company was “excited to be able to announce the deal”. Sepso has also confirmed that the majority of Major League Gaming has been bought by Activision. That said, the MLG will still have most of it’s independence, it will just have to operate under the Activision name now. This is similar to how Blizzard now operates after their merger into the company in 2008.
In fact it seems like business as usual for the MLG world, Sepso has told fans that Major League Gaming will continue its connections with all game developers and publishers.
It seems that Activision wants to ensure that the MLG world not only thrives, but grows as well. Activison has made claims that they want to build the franchise into “The ESPN of e-sports”. To ensure that, Sepso says that the company is going to make “a very concerted effort to continue working with servicing the third party relationships that MLG had”. Ensuring worried fans that events such as the Counter strike: Global offensive tournament slated later for this month will go forward as planned.
Change is in the air dear readers, let’s hope that for those of us who had childish dreams of playing our favourite video games for money this change is positive.
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