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Re: Amazon is not going to make a bid for Electronic Arts – sources

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Post by nailer »

samsin wrote: post #21
iinnPP wrote: post #13

I don't think AGS will be better than EA as a publisher. I can't believe I can say that. Seeing how they handled New World and how they currently handle Lost Ark... For anyone unaware, Lost Ark has a serious bot problem and the answer from AGS is to act in a way where the primary impact is felt by legitimate players. Lost Ark makes RuneScape's history of botting seem minor in comparison.

Is it that unbelievable? EA are a very successful publisher

Dead Space is literally coming back just now after they EA-ified Dead Space 3.

Re: Amazon is not going to make a bid for Electronic Arts – sources

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Post by kinbiko »

samwillis wrote: post #26

It seems to me that Amazons long term strategy is to become a "Conglomerate of Brands", leveraging the profits from one business unit to buy out unrelated business. This sort of acquisition doesn't, as far as I can see, advance a particular core business unit (I'm aware Amazon have toyed with games publishing, but its not exactly a core business unit). I suppose it makes sense, investors want their investment to be s…

Wild guess, but it could be that Amazon’s strategy involves Twitch somehow.

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Post by chollida1 »

paganel wrote: post #14

It there any way this would pass anti-trust? Especially in this tense political climate when it comes to Big Tech (I'm thinking both of Europe and especially fo the US).

Yes, can't see the government looking at this. This isn't two gaming companies combining.

US anti trust looks at harm to consumers, meaning does this reduce competition amongst game makers, and the answer is obviously no. This isn't two gaming companies merging. This is one unrelated company acquiring another. Us and European anti trust don't look at the size of a company as a factor.

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Post by beezlebroxxxxxx »

InsomniacL wrote: post #47

1, Amazon runs the platform that sells the games - Amazon 2, Amazon runs the platform that people use while playing the games - Twitch 3, Amazon runs the platform that hosts the servers to play the games - AWS 4, Amazon runs the platform that you play the game on - Luna 5, Amazon runs the platform that creates the games - EA how is this not anti-competition for anyone running a company that competes in only one of th…

Not that I agree with this argument, but I imagine Amazon might claim that Alphabet was essentially doing the same thing with Stadia, Youtube Game streaming, the Play store, and presumably cloud offerings (I don't know that one for sure though).

Though I suspect the claim that "We at least compete with this other giant tech company hell bent on crushing competition" is probably not the most sympathetic argument in the current antitrust atmosphere.

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Post by [deleted] »

choeger wrote: post #48
alberth wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> put an upper cap on the size of companies How would you measure “size”? EDIT: What do you mean by "cap" then? Would you force the company to be broken apart into smaller independent companies if it exceeded whatever cap is defined?

Simple. Revenue. Tax a company's revenue progressively. (Of course it's complicated to implement this with companies owning companies, but you get the gist.)

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Post by haunter »

Ekaros wrote: post #23

So EA Play with Prime... Now if we only had Amazon in my country...

Twitch Prime is available in many countries through Prime Video where regular Amazon Prime is not available

https://www.primevideo.com/

https://www.amazongames.com/en-us/support/prime-gaming/artic...

Re: Amazon is not going to make a bid for Electronic Arts – sources

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Post by forty »

samwillis wrote: post #26

It seems to me that Amazons long term strategy is to become a "Conglomerate of Brands", leveraging the profits from one business unit to buy out unrelated business. This sort of acquisition doesn't, as far as I can see, advance a particular core business unit (I'm aware Amazon have toyed with games publishing, but its not exactly a core business unit). I suppose it makes sense, investors want their investment to be s…

They have already bought twitch which is more or less related to video games.

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Post by speed_spread »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #56
sschueller wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What movie was that where there was only one large company that did everything? Kind of scary that we are almost at that point now.

Idiocracy ;) In that movie, Costco pretty much does everything.

"Welcome to Costco, I Love You"

Re: Amazon is not going to make a bid for Electronic Arts – sources

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Post by jwie »

Microsoft has acquired Bethesda, will probably acquire Activision-Blizzard, and has purchased other, smaller studios in the past already.

I wonder what’s driving the desire to buy up video game publishers. There probably aren’t many left at the scope of the ones already bought or in a deal that are practically purchasable, even for big tech players.

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