DBWI: Disney dosen't expand into the Gaming Industry

[xie323]

Well we know how the story goes. Disney sought to expand into the gaming industry and hasn't stopped ever since. They successfully competed with Activision to buy out Blizzard, thus giving them control over the world's largest MMO. This was followed by their 2009 buyout of Pandemic Studios and Bioware from EA(EA losing many of it's IPs and Activision's failure to acquire Blizzard facilitated the merger of EA and Activision into the rather infamous ElectronicVision company to compete with Disney), their buyout of Riot Games in 2013, them exerting more and more influence over Square Enix using Kingdom Hearts as a jumping off point to the point where Square Enix effectively de facto answers to them, and the buyout of Ubisoft in 2014.

After Disney bought Star Wars from Lucas in 2012, they established Cantina Games, which allowed them to directly publish and create Star Wars games. Despite the massive polarization and discontent with the Sequel Trilogy(OOC: They went roughly the same as OTL) the games coming from Cantina Games, along with Rogue One, Dave Filoni's work and the Mandalorian has been seen as bright spots in the franchise.

No one knows where the Mouse Empire will go next, but there has been rumors of them in talks to buy Nintendo since 2017.

But what if Disney didn't expand into the gaming industry? What would the implications for the gaming industry if the mouse never expanded it's paws over the industry?

 

[Aisha Clan-Clan]

Without disney's using patent law to get nintendo out of western markets you probably still have a Japan in the US sphere and not both aligned wth China and nuclear armed.

 

[Spencersj345.346]

Without disney's using patent law to get nintendo out of western markets you probably still have a Japan in the US sphere and not both aligned wth China and nuclear armed.

I swear it's a good thing the US is a democratic society or the armed forces and the state department would have exterminated Disney root and stem for that massive screwing up of the US's postion in Asia.

 

[xie323]

Without disney's using patent law to get nintendo out of western markets you probably still have a Japan in the US sphere and not both aligned wth China and nuclear armed.

Thinking about this, we could see WoW maintaining it's dominace over Asia, without the massive ban of Chinese WoW players, and the Japanese having their own MMOs compete with Blizzard ever since the new Pro-Chinese government decided to allow chinese bases and missiles on their soil.

In fact, we might not see the asian MMO market compete so heavily with the MMOs controlled by Disney.

OOC: Japan would not be allowed to build nukes, it would be more "allow China to move nukes on their soil"

 

[Nivek]

Without disney's using patent law to get nintendo out of western markets you probably still have a Japan in the US sphere and not both aligned wth China and nuclear armed.

Asb

 

[xie323]

Just wondering about what would happen to Disney's movie franchises if Disney never set it's sights on the gaming industry, would we still have the Warcraft Movie Trilogy about the First and Second Wars without Disney at the helm? What would the world be like without the noncanon(to both settings) but very fun Mass Effect-Star Wars crossover cartoon on Disney+, or the Overwatch-Avengers crossover comic?

 

[AltHistoryNerd]

The Disney Sound Source doesn't seem so stupid in retrospect.

 

[Dolan]

The disaster of Jaina Proudmoore being "raised" to her now status of Lovestruck Disney Princess won't ever happened.

What was previously badass Mage and Alliance Leader ended up desperate enough to basically gambling everything in a time travel plot to grab *GASP* uncorrupted Prince Arthas, and in the meantime, caused the canon timeline to be redirected into another timeline where Arthas never claimed the Frostmourne and saved the World from Archimonde.

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Sure, the Fall of Arthas in the first timeline is indeed controversial, but the forced Salvation of Arthas in the second timeline is cringey.

 

[Look More Closely Later]

Well we know how the story goes. Disney sought to expand into the gaming industry and hasn't stopped ever since. They successfully competed with Activision to buy out Blizzard, thus giving them control over the world's largest MMO. This was followed by their 2009 buyout of Pandemic Studios and Bioware from EA(EA losing many of it's IPs and Activision's failure to acquire Blizzard facilitated the merger of EA and Activision into the rather infamous ElectronicVision company to compete with Disney), their buyout of Riot Games in 2013, them exerting more and more influence over Square Enix using Kingdom Hearts as a jumping off point to the point where Square Enix effectively de facto answers to them, and the buyout of Ubisoft in 2014.

After Disney bought Star Wars from Lucas in 2012, they established Cantina Games, which allowed them to directly publish and create Star Wars games. Despite the massive polarization and discontent with the Sequel Trilogy(OOC: They went roughly the same as OTL) the games coming from Cantina Games, along with Rogue One, Dave Filoni's work and the Mandalorian has been seen as bright spots in the franchise.

No one knows where the Mouse Empire will go next, but there has been rumors of them in talks to buy Nintendo since 2017.

But what if Disney didn't expand into the gaming industry? What would the implications for the gaming industry if the mouse never expanded it's paws over the industry?

[ooc] Point of information: Disney have expanded into the gaming industry, at least in the original timeline. See for example their collaboration with Japanese companies to produce the Kingdom Hearts series, and the pay-to-win 'allegedly free' games like Disney Magic Kingdoms that they make with the European company Gameloft. [/ooc]
[ooc]Edit: Disney give the orders, and a contractor makes what they tell them; and it is Disney giving the orders, at lest with Gameloft, because for the past year or so, at least, Disney Magic Kingdom's 'special events' have tended to synch up in terms of characters and locations to some degree with whatever Disney movie is releasing that month... New live-action Aladdin film? Surprise surprise suddenly old Aladdin characters are being re-released, in-game, along with one or two new Aladdin ones. Star Wars movie coming out? Even if it makes little sense at all in terms of the in-game universe that has been built, suddenly Rey and company are crawling all over the place in an event and around your theme park. [/ooc]

 

[S. Marlowski]

What other Major IPs does Mouse Inc own?

 

[Whiteshore]

Without disney's using patent law to get nintendo out of western markets you probably still have a Japan in the US sphere and not both aligned wth China and nuclear armed.

And we wouldn't have gotten that "Nixon in China" moment combined with Willy Brandt's actions at Warsaw where the Japanese Prime Minister visited the Nanjing Memorial Hall, knelt down, and begged for forgiveness for Japan's war crimes in WW2 with Japan, even if many argue thar realpolitik is the main reason for such a move, having adopted an approach much like Germany when it comes to the crimes of their past with stuff like the "comfort women", Unit 731, and the Nanjing Massacre being part of Japanese history textbooks in all their horrific nature.

 

[xie323]

The disaster of Jaina Proudmoore being "raised" to her now status of Lovestruck Disney Princess won't ever happened.

What was previously badass Mage and Alliance Leader ended up desperate enough to basically gambling everything in a time travel plot to grab *GASP* uncorrupted Prince Arthas, and in the meantime, caused the canon timeline to be redirected into another timeline where Arthas never claimed the Frostmourne and saved the World from Archimonde.

...

Sure, the Fall of Arthas in the first timeline is indeed controversial, but the forced Salvation of Arthas in the second timeline is cringey.

You mean that non-canon hearthstone comic which was just an alternate timeline, based on a non-canon phased caverns of time event for WoW's 10th anniversary. And frankly it was made by a as a "take that" to people that didn't like Jaina's turn from someone who wanted everyone to get along that to Jaina as a warmonger("You don't like Jaina the warmonger...how about Jaina the wussy Disney princess!") rather than an actual plot development . I felt Blizzard was being quite mean spirited there to be honest over people that did not like Jaina as they have characterized her, and inferred that people wanted Jaina to be the other extreme because they did not like her going all warmonger on the Horde.

That said, the forced salvation of Sylvanas after getting N'Zoth and the Void Lord known as the "Master of the Damned"(ooc: the Jailer, here revealed to be N'Zoth's master) corruption beaten out of her in the final raid of the "Revenge of the Black Empire" expansion(ooc: Rather than BFA we get a full on Old God Expansion), is canon AND cringeworthy as hell. Especially that scene where "Sylvanas the Redeemed" summons a Frost Wyrm from nowhere to help close the portal to the Maw as we players dealt with N'Zoth. You can't tell me that scene wasn't ripped off from Maleficient. That said, thank god she didn't steal our thunder deliver the deathblow on the Old God.

OOC: This will never happen EVEN with Disney in charge. Arthas is a too iconic of a villain for this to happen and even Blizzard recognizes that as fucked up as their writing is. In addition, "woke Disney". And TTL, the warcraft movies are as of 2020, up to Beyond the Dark Portal; the Third War has yet to be covered and the trilogy just deals with the first and second wars. If anyone is getting a forced salvation, it will be Kerrigan as per OTL, and Sylvanas, and I can see Blizzard using Maleficient to double down on trying to actually redeem Sylvanas rather than double down on her as a villain(granted I am of the opinion that she should never have gone pure evil in the first place).

And we wouldn't have gotten that "Nixon in China" moment combined with Willy Brandt's actions at Warsaw where the Japanese Prime Minister visited the Nanjing Memorial Hall, knelt down, and begged for forgiveness for Japan's war crimes in WW2 with Japan, even if many argue thar realpolitik is the main reason for such a move, having adopted an approach much like Germany when it comes to the crimes of their past with stuff like the "comfort women", Unit 731, and the Nanjing Massacre being part of Japanese history textbooks in all their horrific nature.

IC: Oddly enough, with everyone pitted against the US or competing against the US except for Vietnam and the Philippines now...., Disney's little blunded might have made Asia a bit more stable without Japan's consistent insistance they did nothing wrong pissing over relations with every nation they invaded in WW2, albeit very Anti-American. I wonder what the effect of no Disney have on anime, maybe we could have someone like Shizo Abe in power, and anime being more nationalisitc than before.