FTC says it will appeal to block Microsoft-Activision deal
FTC says it will appeal to block Microsoft-Activision deal
Good. A Microsoft victory here will severely damage prospects for other antitrust actions and have a chilling effect on government oversight of mergers, which is already pretty thin.
Fuck the FTC. I'm tired of this shit. Just let this shit be done so I can get wow included in gamepass. Christ this is the dumbest shit ever.
Right? I don't care that much, but I hate Sony's saltiness about the whole thing. Mfs want to be the only guest at the party.
I agree. This is going on way too long.
From what I understand of the merger it seems like it would benefit gamers as a whole. It seems initially the main reason to stop this was to block Microsoft from exclusive rights over Call of Duty, which doesn't seem what Microsoft is intending to do.
Microsoft has even agreed to bring call of duty to Sony's Playstation for 10 years, and also to bring call of duty to the Nintendo switch.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but I really don't see how this would hurt the gaming market, which is what is being argued here.
After seeing how MS is handling Starfield I don't think they need to acquire more big studios. First they took away Playstation support, now they are taking a big payout from AMD to be the official GPU of Starfield, even though AMD has a ~15% market share: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam
And will Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 be any different?
IMO MS has one guy Phil Spencer that talks a good game, but the actions of MS are usually way different.
How many do you think are being paid?
Remember when the government gave a shit about busting monopolies? That'd be cool to see happen again.
good luck.
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