That is what lawyers would refer to as a clear pattern of behaviour.
Axios: Xbox plan around buying Activision is to put PlayStation out of business
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The rhetoric will be thats what companies do.Fixed it for 'ya
I'm curious to see what Destin's spin on this revelation is going to be.
Deliberately missing the point that competition based on creating better products & partnerships is not the same as buying out the industry to starve out the competition to win.
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Conspiracy will get you more years in the pen than a verbatim crime. A thought crime.
Booty and unnamed MS exec scheme to push Sony out of the industry. MS Xbox goes on a big publisher buying spree to accomplish said goal. Booty/MS/Xbox have now been proven to conspire to push Sony out of the industry. The crime went beyond just a thought... and into actual acts to further this goal.
An easy dunk for regulatory bodies that have an abundance of ammo already as it regards to this deal. This is particularly news cause it's clear cut anti-competitive, monopolistic intent beyond the grey area. Only ignorant suckers and crazy fanboys can proudly brush this off as not a big deal with regards to the ABK acquisition.
Don't matter if you don't commit the crime (pushing Sony out). If it can be proven you conspired to do so - that is all it takes to go to the pen and serve years. Obviously " conspiracy to push Sony out" is not a criminal act but it's however perfect ammo for regulatory bodies seeking to kill an acquisition deal in front of a judge.
Deal is dead anyway.
Booty and unnamed MS exec scheme to push Sony out of the industry. MS Xbox goes on a big publisher buying spree to accomplish said goal. Booty/MS/Xbox have now been proven to conspire to push Sony out of the industry. The crime went beyond just a thought... and into actual acts to further this goal.
An easy dunk for regulatory bodies that have an abundance of ammo already as it regards to this deal. This is particularly news cause it's clear cut anti-competitive, monopolistic intent beyond the grey area. Only ignorant suckers and crazy fanboys can proudly brush this off as not a big deal with regards to the ABK acquisition.
Don't matter if you don't commit the crime (pushing Sony out). If it can be proven you conspired to do so - that is all it takes to go to the pen and serve years. Obviously " conspiracy to push Sony out" is not a criminal act but it's however perfect ammo for regulatory bodies seeking to kill an acquisition deal in front of a judge.
Deal is dead anyway.
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Media: Proudly presenting the worst news for the hopes and dreams of acquisition fanboys since the CMA blocked the deal.
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You have all the xbots on era doing mental gymnastics to damage control this (its nothing etc) and on gaf out miserable shitstain on a human being addamsapple doing the same, delicuous
When they use the same methods, they are singing the same song and dance, its not getting paranoid, its Just having eyes on my face and willing to use them
Exanthus is good people, despite his support of the deal. Dude's not a shill so no need to berate him.
I hope the FTC fucks Microsoft with a cactus over this.
Well, I personally think that not only the acquisitions are made with the idea of putting Nintendo and specially Sony out of business, I think they are only part of a bigger plan to achieve that.
Part of their bigger strategy of focusing on Game Pass and putting all their games there plus some big 3rd party games there day one. A nonsensical suicidal business plan that implies a huge investment and tons of loses during many years, something that would kill any platform holder that would try it except the only one with huge pockets to assume these loses: Microsoft.
I think their idea with these acquisitions and the 'day one on GP strategy' would be to, if GP would become super successful in Netflix or Spotify levels (many hundreds of millions of subs) to the point it would kill the other business models and subscriptions would replace game and addon sales, then to have themselves basically a monopoly because the other platform holders -and many publishers and devs- couldn't afford to get the massive loses it implies.
That would kill most of their competition, and after having killed them and having a monopoly, then they'd move to a properly profitable business.
So yes, I think their final main goal is to put Sony and other rival platform holders out of business, but I think this acquisition would be only one small piece inside of a huge puzzle that would be their overal strategy to achieve this.
The thing is that the most important piece of the puzzle, which is the success of Gamepass, isn't performing as they intented. It isn't dominating the gaming market monetization and isn't even making the other platform holders to adopt their 'AAA games day one on a game sub' suicidal strategy. In fact, isn't even dominating the game subs market.
And to have the Activision Blizzard piece would help them to compete, but not to the point that would make all that plan work. They would continue behind Sony and GP would continue behind PS Plus.
Part of their bigger strategy of focusing on Game Pass and putting all their games there plus some big 3rd party games there day one. A nonsensical suicidal business plan that implies a huge investment and tons of loses during many years, something that would kill any platform holder that would try it except the only one with huge pockets to assume these loses: Microsoft.
I think their idea with these acquisitions and the 'day one on GP strategy' would be to, if GP would become super successful in Netflix or Spotify levels (many hundreds of millions of subs) to the point it would kill the other business models and subscriptions would replace game and addon sales, then to have themselves basically a monopoly because the other platform holders -and many publishers and devs- couldn't afford to get the massive loses it implies.
That would kill most of their competition, and after having killed them and having a monopoly, then they'd move to a properly profitable business.
So yes, I think their final main goal is to put Sony and other rival platform holders out of business, but I think this acquisition would be only one small piece inside of a huge puzzle that would be their overal strategy to achieve this.
The thing is that the most important piece of the puzzle, which is the success of Gamepass, isn't performing as they intented. It isn't dominating the gaming market monetization and isn't even making the other platform holders to adopt their 'AAA games day one on a game sub' suicidal strategy. In fact, isn't even dominating the game subs market.
And to have the Activision Blizzard piece would help them to compete, but not to the point that would make all that plan work. They would continue behind Sony and GP would continue behind PS Plus.
Considering the email clearly states anti-competitive motives for ALL their acquisitions, forced divestiture of Zenimax is one possible outcome from this.
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The person typing this never heard of Minecraft, Mindcraft shows up multiple times.
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Is there a ps5 version of Minecraft? At least one that was being built prior to ps5 release?