Microsoft completes $69bn takeover of Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard::It comes after the UK approved the $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard, which makes Call of Duty.
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Activision already ruined blizzard and is/was a shit company. Anyone buying their games still is a sucker who loves being ripped off. Nothing of value was lost here.
Activision waa such a piece of shit, I m actually very excited for this. They shitcanned Bobby too. It can only get better.
This is getting closer and closer to a monopoly. It won’t end well
What monopoly? M$ revenue + Nintendo revenue = Sony Gaming revenue
If anything, playing field just got level, as M$ post merger will be about the same size Sony is.
Lmaoooooo that’s absurd. Y’all just want to be angry. It’s a fantastic time to be a gamer.
RE4, TotK, Hifi rush, street fighter, mk1, Diablo, starfield, armored core, lies of p, bg3, octopath 2, Hogwarts , pikeman, amnesia , like a dragon, fire emblem, age of wonders, assassin’s Creed, attic heart, blasphemous 2, company of heroes, darkest dungeon 2, dredge, Forza, immortals of avium , lords of the fallen, total war, Spider-Man in a few days, remnant, survivor, system shock, etc.
I’m sure I missed quite a few good games and that’s 23 only.
Of your list, while there are multiple good games, I’m still waiting for the next great game that I can enjoy.
Spiderman, few days. Already covered it for ya 😜
Great example, because that’s a play station exclusive, so unless you have that specific console, you’re fucked thanks to corporate greed
PC will get it in a year or two. You can play everything (including emulating a switch) on PC.
I don’t know, maybe I should be angry or something. But Activision/Blizzard have been pretty shitty for a while now. This will just be more of the same and more of me continueing to not buying their games.
I grew up on Blizzard and Activision games, but the good feelings and nostalgia wore off when they started treating beloved franchises like DLC piggy banks.
Market consolidation 🥰🥰🥰🥰
“more choices” per the new CEO. Speech has absolutely been neutered by corporations in the last 30 years. Literally the opposite. “Product enhancements” announced by an airline, everyone starts looking for what is worse.
Whattttt. I love AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe’s.
Looking forward to see how this will improve the quality of Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard-EA-Ubisoft’s games and those of the competito- oh, never mind. None left.
Finally. Thank God that’s over and I can get my free Diablo soon. Gamepass is fantastic!
Ew
RIP video games
ActiBlizz haven’t made anything I’ve been interested in for some time. MS got some amazingly shitty games out of Bethesda tho, Redfall and Starfield are just case studies in despising your audience.
I’m not interested in their games either, my issue with it is that a lot of people are, and MS is trying their hardest to get a monopoly in the industry and/or turn everything into streaming-only subscription crap
It’s never been a better time to be a gamer. Fantastic games are a dime a dozen and consoles have never been nearly as powerful for low end games. It’s a fantastic time to be gaming.
Except Microsoft is building up a monopoly on gaming, buying what they can, consolidating its properties so they can then transition to a streaming-only model where nobody owns anything (I know you don’t technically “own” the games you buy either but at least you can have them on physical media to keep, back up or sell) and the only way to play anything is to pay a monthly subscription fee and to use only what Microsoft allows you to use (i.e. no more Linux gaming)
What a fantastic imagination.
If you want to blame physical media going away and scream about monopoly you should go complain to papa Gaben.
Steam games are obtainable in other ways. Streaming-exclusive ones aren’t.
You mean by stealing. You should just be clear with your language.
I don’t exclusively mean piracy. You can still buy big budget games on disc, and you can buy most games from any other platform, including GOG and Itch which don’t implement DRM. I only care about physical media in the sense that nobody can take it away from you, and DRM-free media achieves the same goal.
Not to mention that piracy isn’t theft because you’re not taking anything away from anyone, you’re making a copy of some files 🤷♀️
The notion that piracy is theft is capitalist bullshit designed to manipulate people’s emotions by equating a company not making as much profits as they theoretically could have to theft lol
I love it. You even said the line.
What does Steam have monopoly over?
Nothing, unless you are crazy enough to think Ms has a monopoly.
Eh, I’m of the opinion when the old giants get stale or acquired into a grand corporate strategy new studios will spring up to fill the vacancy in the market.
They’ve been dead. EA and Activision made sure of that long since.
That’s not what I meant and you’re literally wrong lol, incredible games are made every year. My problem with this is that Microsoft is trying to turn gaming into its corporate cloud-only monopoly.
Good games are still made, but the top shops, with respect to size and funding have priorities that aren’t aligned directly with enjoyment and story telling. There is a lot of requirement to be online, gambling addiction based mechanics, unfinished releases, MRR goals, and strong arm tactics by publishers for platform exclusivity. Perhaps I am literally wrong about my view, but it is my opinion nevertheless; wasn’t trying to start a debate.
User satisfaction is regularly an afterthought to profit, as is expected in capitalism but not always ideal for the consumer. And less competition doesn’t help.
I’m missing the “haha funny number” comments from Reddit :(
haha funny number
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