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Less players in the market + higher bar to get in = more competition.
Capitalism is a very interesting beast. We should use it even more.
Capitalism is a very interesting beast. We should use it even more.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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I'm sure Sony are regretting not promoting that one dev's Dolphin game who spoke out against them.
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PS fans in that thread are like cows in a slaughterhouse
Era moderation is a joke.PS fans in that thread are like cows in a slaughterhouse
That's such a U-turn right there I almost got whiplash. Whatever new evidence MS put forward must have been so compelling the CMA have gone from divestiture as the option to yeah we're good no worries.
Trying to calculate the feasibility for MS to foreclose is crazy when thinking about their war chest. They'll gladly eat loses for years if they have too.
Haven't read the document yet but it just opens up many question like what happens about subscription services? Sony say the current contract would make COD to PS+ day and date financially unfeasible. Making it a de facto subscription exclusive. Will MS be monitored to check they're offering a fair price and access for competitors? Have behavioural remedies been thrown out the window entirely? What about the CMA belief MS only shown their true intent post Zenimax merger? We good now with that too?
It's just too big a swing from previous arguments to get my head around lol.
Trying to calculate the feasibility for MS to foreclose is crazy when thinking about their war chest. They'll gladly eat loses for years if they have too.
Haven't read the document yet but it just opens up many question like what happens about subscription services? Sony say the current contract would make COD to PS+ day and date financially unfeasible. Making it a de facto subscription exclusive. Will MS be monitored to check they're offering a fair price and access for competitors? Have behavioural remedies been thrown out the window entirely? What about the CMA belief MS only shown their true intent post Zenimax merger? We good now with that too?
It's just too big a swing from previous arguments to get my head around lol.
Crock of shit, less people will have access to abk games thats for sure.
If i was an icon era mod i would get a ree account open, head into that ps ot thread and start recruiting users to this site
No, they're definitely pro-MS. I don't see how you can conclude otherwise. I'm not saying the majority of the userbase there is, FWIW; however the select choice members who are, are emboldened and supported in their rhetoric by the moderators and admin, and that therein permeates throughout the whole website.
Any particular PS topic always, eventually gets tinged into negativity, usually in relation to Xbox. Why are they still so obsessed with calling the PS5 "ugly" for example after almost three years? You've already expressed your thoughts on that back at launch; nothing's changed since so what's the point in obsessing on that especially if it's just a merry-go-round to clown on the system for any perceivable thing?
Really, how they handle the ABK thread for the acquisition tells a lot, then the other day when the weekly Japan sales came out posters immediately jumped on the theories of PS5 demand "drying up", scalpers, etc. despite all systems were down compared to the previous week (to my knowledge) and Xbox numbers in particular were just abysmal. But you can also pick up on some general anti-PS sentiment in various other threads on the gaming side, if you can stomach to read the drivel long enough.
If they aren't pro-MS, they're at the very least increasingly anti-PS but I guess that is what happens when you create a space that attracts certain persuasions of gamers, when admin and mod staff steer discussions a certain way themselves to form specific narratives, etc.
They might do something of an announcement for their planned big showcase that's supposed to come before E3 (as the rumors go). That would seem like a good time frame to make such announcements.
Especially when they're strongly affiliated in a deal with a $2 trillion conglomerate.
If they are pro ms today it because most of the ps community is leaving or left. But when i was there ms community were pretty much boolickers.
It also reveals their true colors: they don't really care about Xbox improving to get better, and do so to provide better competition; they just want PlayStation to die. They want a reality where only Nintendo and Xbox exist and PlayStation is non-existent. That's why all their ideas to "improve Xbox" conveniently involve taking something away from PlayStation and depriving them (and the fanbase) of content.
It's very spiteful, narcissistic, and hateful toxicity. But hey, Xbox leadership have helped enable this mentality. So they should own up to it.
I've tried keeping a pulse on them for the past year, since the Jim Ryan email stuff happened, and have observed a general shift that has led to the forum (again, maybe not most of the regular users, but the empowerment of specific users and certainly among the moderator and admin staff) being more pro-MS and anti-PS. And I say pro-MS in particular because I've seen it extend over to the Etc. stuff whenever tech news relating to Microsoft pops up, so it's not just limited to Xbox.
Sega is really the only Japanese publisher that would likely sell to them, I agree with that. But if what @Eternal_Wings is saying is true, it would seem MS already tried a BS hostile takeover last year of Sega and the Japanese government told them to piss off. Guess MS didn't want to go through the regular channels for approval, which says a lot considering their history with Sega.
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I think a lot of the Playstation fans are going to get banned or chased off that website.
They have always been pro MS. It’s just more evident today. Ffs I was banned once for saying Bethesda acquisition didn’t make any difference for me because I don’t like their games.
A lot of PlayStation fans are already not on it because they don't want to hear American rhetoric all the time
If anybody does know any of the PlayStation users on Resetera, please let them know that they are welcome here....
Yes, i have been there and seen some bad bans, but i saying when i was there that site was no where near pro ms so safe to assume PS folks have bailed on the site over the years.
Well, I guess the bright side in this is we wont have to worry about MS making any other massive purchases until this ABK integration is good.
Also, they probably need the heat off of them for a little bit.
Also, they probably need the heat off of them for a little bit.