I haven't been to ResetEra in a long time and I plan never to go back. Though this doesn't surprise me in the least bit. They are all hypocrites over there at that cesspool.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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I'm curious if MS were aware that IBM were providing them that information illegally, but decided to leverage that tech anyway. They could have at least gone to people higher up at IBM to get clarification on the status of the license with that technology, although I know IBM has an, ahem, dubious history of ignoring ethical responsibilities in pursuit of business.
It wouldn't surprise me though if Microsoft just decided to not look further into it and figured Sony wouldn't want to sue one of their own Cell R&D partners, or even be in the position to do so due to PS3 production costs & Blu-Ray costs. And like with IBM, Microsoft doesn't have an issue with skirting around legal bounds even if it's ethically dubious to do so.
It's crazy though to think that a lot of 360's technical capabilities only even existed because of work Sony had put in with other companies since 2001 (if not earlier). Meanwhile 360 development didn't even begin until 2003. A lot of times I feel something eerily similar has happened with the Xbox Series systems i.e I don't think development really began on them until 2018 (or at earliest 2017, around the time the One X was readying to come out), if you look back at the very first specs leak for the new consoles where they already mentioned two Xbox systems (one 4 TF the other 12 TF) and pegged PS5 in the middle at 8 TF.
That was January 2018 via a leak, IIRC.
Good points. Guys like Jez are basically useful impassioned idiots. I don't even think they remember the things they argued for within the span of a week; IIRC Jez isn't even much of an Xbox guy, they mainly play WOW on PC.
So they don't even have much a reason to argue on behalf of the Xbox brand as much as they do outside of their employer requiring it for articles. And, well, it gives a good fanbase to milk cash from.
Man where have I seen that name before.....OH RIGHT!
Activision Blizzard exec accused by union group of ‘anti-union propaganda’ in Slack
Communications exec Lulu Cheng Meservey is alleged to have issued a company-wide message ‘disparaging the union’www.polygon.com
Imagine being "pro consumer" while being anti-union
!!Of course they do. Young woman in a position they consider authoritative, selling themselves as a proponent of "pro-consumerism".
Even though like @TwistedSyn just posted, apparently isn't pro-workers. You know, they're only the people who actually make the games. But they can go screw themselves when it comes to rights, apparently, because it's gonna be "FREE" IN GAMEPASS
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Era retards reminds me of amirox, a virtua signaler how ended being a pedo,its life a lesson the more someone want someone to paint themselves as beacons of virtue the more skeletons they have on the closet
MS knew, apparently it was an MS employee who encouraged IBM to implement any improvements Sony made to the PPC core design in the Xenon too.I'm curious if MS were aware that IBM were providing them that information illegally, but decided to leverage that tech anyway. They could have at least gone to people higher up at IBM to get clarification on the status of the license with that technology, although I know IBM has an, ahem, dubious history of ignoring ethical responsibilities in pursuit of business.
It wouldn't surprise me though if Microsoft just decided to not look further into it and figured Sony wouldn't want to sue one of their own Cell R&D partners, or even be in the position to do so due to PS3 production costs & Blu-Ray costs. And like with IBM, Microsoft doesn't have an issue with skirting around legal bounds even if it's ethically dubious to do so.
It's crazy though to think that a lot of 360's technical capabilities only even existed because of work Sony had put in with other companies since 2001 (if not earlier). Meanwhile 360 development didn't even begin until 2003. A lot of times I feel something eerily similar has happened with the Xbox Series systems i.e I don't think development really began on them until 2018 (or at earliest 2017, around the time the One X was readying to come out), if you look back at the very first specs leak for the new consoles where they already mentioned two Xbox systems (one 4 TF the other 12 TF) and pegged PS5 in the middle at 8 TF.
That was January 2018 via a leak, IIRC.
Good points. Guys like Jez are basically useful impassioned idiots. I don't even think they remember the things they argued for within the span of a week; IIRC Jez isn't even much of an Xbox guy, they mainly play WOW on PC.
So they don't even have much a reason to argue on behalf of the Xbox brand as much as they do outside of their employer requiring it for articles. And, well, it gives a good fanbase to milk cash from.
Imagine being "pro consumer" while being anti-union
Of course they do. Young woman in a position they consider authoritative, selling themselves as a proponent of "pro-consumerism".
Even though like @TwistedSyn just posted, apparently isn't pro-workers. You know, they're only the people who actually make the games. But they can go screw themselves when it comes to rights, apparently, because it's gonna be "FREE" IN GAMEPASS
The failure rate and performance degradation on Surface tablets in corporate deployments are horrifying. One major company I was on a project for ended up switching to a Dell tablet that made the Surface look like a joke and cost $300 per unit less.
Wait, did that chick just say "stop trying to make cloud gaming market happen" as if that's not exactly what microsoft's objective for the last 5 years has been? FFS Satya Nadella can't shut the fuck up about cloud this cloud that any time he's interviewed.
New lyrics for this song... 'There are 3 billion gamers in the world, that's bullshit, it's nonsense Phil Spencer said'
Her tweets (and Activision response) seems they just watched Hoeg Law videos to get arguments.
She doesn't seem to be aware MS said the acquisition was all about cloud gaming, Amazon and Google. They also said Nintendo was not a direct competitor.
It's weird how I read all her arguments on gaming forums the weeks before. It's like copy/paste from GAF, Era and Twitter.
I'm normally not a conspiratorial kind of person but that just screams 'paid astroturfing' or some sort of xbox-ambassador-type program where they all get together on discord to disseminate corporate talking points
It’s not a conspiracy theory when MS has admitted under oath that they do exactly that.
That’s why all the main XBots on any board all say the exact same things all the time.
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the thread in era about this is crazy,not only they coordinate to harrass anyone againts the deal now they are doing damage controll for jez corden,delicious
If someone is against the deal they get dogpiled for several pages until they leave or get banned. They are using the same aggressive tactics from OldGAF in the SJW days.
Follow the hivemind or get banned.
If they were real gamers, they would be enjoying their time off instead of trying to put social pressure on regulators and others to push an acquisition through...
I sincerely hope some of these people are paid because if they are not, it is super sad.
For some of them, if they aren’t being paid to post what they do, they should be under professional supervision for their mental health.
Microsoft Says FTC Violates The Constitution By Blocking Activision Blizzard Acquisition
In a response to the FTC, Microsoft defends the legality of its $69 billion deal.
www.gameinformer.com