Honestly, I feel as though this was a risky purchase on Microsoft's behalf, considering the backlash against Acti-Blizzard in recent years. I have absolutely no faith in Acti-Blizzard these days, but maybe Microsoft owning them will stop them setting themselves on fire.
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That's exactly my hope here. Activision-Blizzard's problems were management and a toxic work environment. Both problems walked hand in hand and it led to a terrible terrible situation. If you take a look at Xbox's or Phil Spencer's tweets, they're focusing a lot on diversity and inclusivity - while it's hard to take the words of any corpo, it's still great to see that they're putting this out so clearly, even if it is a financial move, there's still hope.
If Microsoft can end the BS happening inside Acti-Blizzard, then they'll enjoy a huge outpouring of support and also those sweet sweet guaranteed revenue streams from Call of Duty, WoW, Overwatch and specially the mobile games division (with games such as Candy Crush, which sure, casual, but the money it makes is astronomical).