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Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard (www.theverge.com)
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Microsoft can now go ahead and close its giant deal.

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[–] Neato@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (24 children)

This is a loss for consumers. Massive consolidation, lack of competition. Get ready for them to pull games from PlayStation as soon as they are contractually allowed to. Get ready for everything to be on Game Pass and possibly not on Steam. Worst case: they disable purchasing some games on Game Pass so you always need a subscription.

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (18 children)
  1. They (both Microsoft and ActiBlizz) pulled games from Steam before, and they're both back on Steam well ahead of this deal. I don't see why that would change.
  2. We've now seen through court documents and transcripts what many of us suspected in that many of these games and studios that Microsoft purchased for exclusivity were Sony targets for exclusivity as well, so if we had to pick one, the company trailing in the market sounds like the better one to get them as exclusives.
  3. I can only see this as better for competition than Sony running away with the high-end console market, because then there's realistically only one console to buy.
  4. All that said about the above, fuck exclusivity in general.
[–] asteroidrainfall@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

There are people who would be okay if it were Sony making the acquisition, but I want to believe that most people who are against it feel that no large company should be allowed to buy another large company.

It’s like, does no one remember what Microsoft did in the 90s? They were literally forbidding PC manufacturers from not selling any systems that didn’t include windows.

This deal is bad. It rewards shitty individuals and shitty companies, and hurts consumers and employees. This deal will be a calendar marker of when the gaming industry started to fall. Like when Disney bought Marvel and LucasArts.

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