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God damn man. How is this not an antitrust violation? The only answer is that we live in truly corrupt times. What is our answer to this?
Microsoft produces video games. They acquired another company that produces video games. How is this antitrust?
Bobby Kotick will remain as CEO until the end of 2023 and get a huge check for this purchase. He's getting rewarded for building a toxic, fratboy workspace, sexually and psycologically harassing women. I wonder if Microsoft can be held accountable for allowing a sex predator like him to continue working.
Bobby Kotick will remain as CEO until the end of 2023 and get a huge check for this purchase. He's getting rewarded for building a toxic, fratboy workspace, sexually and psycologically harassing women. I wonder if Microsoft can be held accountable for allowing a sex predator like him to continue working.
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Until enshittification. And then they’ll be hollowed out.
Very unlikely. Again, MS just wants the profits. If a studio is doing well, they don't want to touch it. They want a steady revenue stream. They'll only step in if the studio is floundering and their couple releases have been flops. Then they'll offer direction, and shut them down if they can't fix it. That's what we've seen from MS so far, and it makes the most sense from their perspective.
Are you sure about that? MS required Starfield to be exclusive after purchasing Bethesda
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Microsoft doesn't have anything close to a monopoly on games. In terms of sales and reviewer scores, most of the top games weren't produced by Activision or other Microsoft studios. The only recent release I'm aware of was Starfield, and that was panned for failing to meet expectations, achieving under 88 on Metacritic.
How is buying up two of the biggest game studios not anti-competitive behavior? The apologism in this comment is hilarious. I hope your getting paid for shilling this hard.
hell, CMA only complained about the cloud business.
FTC tried to do something, but failed so spectacularly that even the judge had to say "you have to defend customers, not sony".
Why not just merge all nasdaq 100 and be done with it?
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Microsoft will likely just let them keep operating as they do now, providing money and reaping any profits. They'll only step in directly if the studios are having problems they can't handle themselves, or performing very poorly. They want the profit, not as much to direct everything on a micro-level. EDIT: They will of course make more titles Windows/XBox exclusive too, which makes sense considering the investment.
Until enshittification. And then they’ll be hollowed out.
I think we're way past "until"...
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Focusing on one asshole getting undeserved rewards is one thing, but it distracts from the real story. What hurts way more at scale is the increasing monopolistic power of Microsoft Games. That should be the primary focus of everyone's attention. This weakens Sony, Nintendo, Steam, Epic. The consumer. Everyone but Microsoft. Microsoft can give away "experiences" under-cost and sink a lot of human attention into it. T…
> increasing monopolistic power of Microsoft Games Microsoft has never been #1 in gaming. It's always been playing catch-up. There's nothing even remotely close to "monopolistic". That doesn't make any sense at all. You literally can't be a monopoly if you're not #1. This is Microsoft simply trying to complete better against Sony. Which is a good thing. It benefits the consumer as stronger, more equal competition lea…
If Microsoft want to strengthen competition, they would stop burning their first party studios to the ground.
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I mean, there is the rather extensive "Sexual harassment investigation" section of his wikipedia page where he paid $1.4 million as part of a jury verdict in a case of sexual harassment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick#Sexual_harassment...