Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

[Loy310]

Also another great part of this. Microsoft's thrashing about and insistence on challenging this means the alleged illegality of the FTC's opposition is going to be tested in court and Microsoft will lose there as well, possibly enshrining new anti-trust precedent into law.

Holy shit - the entire Microsoft house of cards is crumbling between this and Brad Smith losing his marbles and threatening sovereign nations. They're fucked. There is no coming back, and all because they couldn't stand to see Sony beat them.

Yup, all because of hate. A thing that destroys must also destroy itself by its own nature.

 

[anonpuffs]

Oh my god oti is the king of trolling LMAO

 

[Swift_Star]

No 10 hits back at Microsoft after company says EU ‘more attractive’ post-Brexit after takeover blocked – as it happened

Live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as US tech company heavily criticises UK’s Competition and Markets Authority

www.theguardian.com

Very true and very good.

 

[On Demand]

Lmao. Oti is a comedian. Damn.

 

[ApolloHelios]

Is Sony losing PR battle? Can you show an example please?

Or it was like "Sony is too quiet"... "MS talks everyday about Series X"... "Sony didn't show anything about PS5"... "Sony is having trouble with PS5 because they are not talking about it"... "Sony didn't show any PS5 game yet".

And so when we got in March to late 2020... BOOM... Everything was PS5... and everything was right and going great for the launch.
While issues with Series X started to show.

Sony doesn't do circus.
Sony delivers the goods.

Yeah all those things we do to ourselves for losing our cool, and doom posting all over the internet.

 

[nongkris]

Ohhhhhh ERA Started to ban from the thread anybody that agrees with CMA
Now you can insult CMA and call what you want of them but you can't ask to people be respectful with CMA.

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LMAOOOOOO Microsoft PR must've called the mods and said "end that now". It's crazy that even with the decision from ACTUAL regulators, not armchair journalists, they are still banning people who said this was bad. Probably the biggest group of corporate bootlickers in that thread I've ever seen.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Glad that PS users aren't so fucked up and brainwashed like Xbox fandom. I mean, supporting a company to bully a country and threatening too just to put COD on Gamepass. Yeah, Xbox is awesome

If there was a country that favored the Xbox I would be in favor of them being bullied, fortunately that country doesn't not exist.

 

[Darkknight2149]

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I know it doesn't even need to be said, but the moderation on that site truly is ridiculous. The only consistency is the administrators banning shit they don't like, disagree with, or interferes with their corporate interests.

In 2021, I reported several people for dogpiling this guy over his opinion on the Demon's Souls remake (it was @SoulsHunt IIRC) and the comments were way more aggressive than "Your ignorance is showing." Then I got banned for "abusing the report button" I shit you not.

I've also seen people say nasty shit and derail entire threads, but not get banned because it was the "correct" take. But somehow, "Your ignorance is showing" and politely responding to insults is crossing the line

 

[ApolloHelios]

If there was a country that favored the Xbox I would be in favor of them being bullied, fortunately that country doesn't not exist.

Brazil? I dunno

 

[Deleted member 417]

And that’s after all the bragging that everything on Series X would be 60FPS MINIMUM!

"Every game will be 4k and 120fps. That we can guarantee"

 

[Nhomnhom]

Brazil? I dunno

Not even close, Brazil is PlayStation land. Xbox physical games even got discontinued and the PlayStation communities are always much larger.

I don't know, but SIE has a headquarter there so I assume he'll visit it maybe at least once per year and may work normally from UK, next to his home.

But who knows, considering that he makes the webcasts streams from his home for the fiscal reports maybe he doesn't even goes to Japan once per year. I have no idea.


Really funny, but it's his personal account. And MS is a big partner for his company, publicly mocking them with a sensitive topic may get him fired. He may have a boss that knows about Japanese culture (he may even be an expert)

Odds are his boss doesn't even know what an Xbox is.

 

[Cool hand luke]

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Bwahahaha

You know one of those mods/admins just took a haircut on their fucking life savings when Activision shares plummeted.

 

[One eyed jacks]

"The Xbox chief said the acquisition was intended to speed up Microsoft’s gaming plans, but doesn’t represent the entirety of the company’s gaming strategy, which would move ahead even without Activision, the person said."

 

[Loy310]

This stuff should be circulated everywhere, everyone needs to see and understand this....

If we had a good, strong gaming media that hadn't been corrupted and sold out, then they would have this on their front page with it all explained.

Now the burdon falls to us.

If anyone wants to make a new thread about the contract and post it all over twitter etc, I think that would be a good move.

This 100% streaming revenue would totally force streaming platforms to significantly raise their price for their own platforms, Jim Ryan made this argument for ps+.

And guess who see the price increase?

Smfh…. and if MS dont price match then this alone would automatically make ms streaming service more enticing because ms could sit back and watch a subscription service price war going on amongst competitors while they sit back and go hey gamepass is only $1 a month.

How the fuck do streaming platforms compete with that?

Its no wonder Jim said it was inadequate, he would have to increase cost on consumers and why he straight up told them he wants the deal block no filter.
Its also no wonder why geforce, nvidia, boot and nintendo signed up, cause this would allow them to price gouge the fuck out of their users to break even and profit off the top. These nefarious pigs with MS at the top pulling their strings totally unregulated looking like the good guy.
After 2013 i never thought it possible to
lose even more respect for ms.

The CMA did the right thing making this about cloud, because with Microsoft own documents and cloud agreements blocking this would be bulletproof.

If EC have the same offer and they pass the merger then EC is filled with total pieces of shit human scum.

Like the brits say, its a stitch up!

 

[Bryank75]

Yoooooo what? Why isn’t anyone talking about this? That’s fucked up. No way could this deal have gone through.

Somebody make a thread on trashera. Damn green rat hypocrites.

Funny how they suppressed this information for so long... who knows if they would have tried to stop people figuring it out till it went through had the CMA not stopped it.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Seems that MS was going to allow other cloud gaming platforms CoD during 10 years buuuuut if they give MS 100% of the game/DLC/IAP/passes revenue made there, instead of the 70%:


I assume this means that Sony could have CoD on PS and PS cloud gaming but giving Sony 0% of the game's revenue instead of 30%. It's understandable that Jimbo told them to fuck off.


'We will be in gaming'... for sure, you don't need to shut down the gaming division if an acquisition goes wrong, mr. Nutella. Or is someone at MS tired of losing money with gaming and asking to shut down Xbox?

Inadequate.

 

[Bryank75]

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This also needs to be shown to everyone on twitter.... hopefully many people see this. It's important people understand how the discussion is being manipulated and suppressed.

 

[Darth Vader]

I just want to appeal the resetera staff to provide the link for IconEra. We welcome people that can't express a perfectly normal opinion.

 

[Cool hand luke]

Kotick's crazy conspiracy shut down quicker than an Xbot on twitter.

Remember when the EU allegedly refuted FTC's claim they were misled by Microsoft over Bethesda but the FTC never made such a claim and the EU didn't reference the FTC? So, that, but for real.

 

[Papacheeks]

Kotick's crazy conspiracy shut down quicker than an Xbot on twitter.

Remember when the EU allegedly refuted FTC's claim they were misled by Microsoft over Bethesda but the FTC never made such a claim and the EU didn't reference the FTC? So, that, but for real.

Someone send this to that Post Up dude.

Guy being a clown.