Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

[Bryank75]

Supposed lawyer Knownuffin comes out with a spirited defence of competition and innovation (citation needed) by promoting...major publisher acquisitions? The rest of his post is just fanboy wet dream drivel about things the CAT will not do, and it seems to have rallied the green rat troops. Good. I want to see their hopes dashed again.

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What 'innovation' is he talking about?

Making shit games, buying multiple publishers in a row to gobble up as much of the biggest IP's as possible so they CONTROL who gets what and decrease any likelihood of new entrants succeeding in the industry? Subsidizing their gaming with billions from their monopolies in other industries? Using a subscription as a vehicle to undercut competition?

What are these people on?

 

[Dabaus]

Supposed lawyer Knownuffin comes out with a spirited defence of competition and innovation (citation needed) by promoting...major publisher acquisitions? The rest of his post is just fanboy wet dream drivel about things the CAT will not do, and it seems to have rallied the green rat troops. Good. I want to see their hopes dashed again.

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Who wrote this?

 

[laynelane]

What 'innovation' is he talking about?

Making shit games, buying multiple publishers in a row to gobble up as much of the biggest IP's as possible so they CONTROL who gets what and decrease any likelihood of new entrants succeeding in the industry? Subsidizing their gaming with billions from their monopolies in other industries? Using a subscription as a vehicle to undercut competition?

What are these people on?

Cloud gaming. The reason the CMA blocked and which also ties in neatly with every point you made - although those who support MS will always refuse to see that.

 

[Swift_Star]

How long will people cope? It’s simply not happening…

 

[Cool hand luke]

Who wrote this?

Knowinstuff

 

[Deleted member 417]

How long will people cope? It’s simply not happening…

I hope it does happen. MS buying ABK will be met with massive celebrations, declarations of "sony is doomed now", all for reality to slap the fans in the face when MS tank every single ABK franchise.

I want to see what the cope will be then, because all negative xbox news will be excused by "if only MS purchased ABK, they would be outselling Sony 100:1"

 

[laynelane]

I hope it does happen. MS buying ABK will be met with massive celebrations, declarations of "sony is doomed now", all for reality to slap the fans in the face when MS tank every single ABK franchise.

I want to see what the cope will be then, because all negative xbox news will be excused by "if only MS purchased ABK, they would be outselling Sony 100:1"

I think if they attained approval to buy ABK, they would just keep going and buy more and more IPs. There would be no reason to stop and no one to stop them. Then, in 10 years, when all those contracts expired - we would all have to use a MS account in some form to play all those titles and most likely through the cloud. Perhaps many of those franchises would be less quality than they once were but, as we saw with the recent Redfall, that wouldn't matter anyway.

 

[AshHunter216]

I hope it does happen. MS buying ABK will be met with massive celebrations, declarations of "sony is doomed now", all for reality to slap the fans in the face when MS tank every single ABK franchise.

I want to see what the cope will be then, because all negative xbox news will be excused by "if only MS purchased ABK, they would be outselling Sony 100:1"

I'd rather not lose access to ABK'S IP and who knows how many other publisher's games afterwards just to maybe prove a point about Xbox management. I'd much rather just keep playing those games on Playstation and not have to worry about them going anywhere.

 

[Nhomnhom]

I hope it does happen. MS buying ABK will be met with massive celebrations, declarations of "sony is doomed now", all for reality to slap the fans in the face when MS tank every single ABK franchise.

I want to see what the cope will be then, because all negative xbox news will be excused by "if only MS purchased ABK, they would be outselling Sony 100:1"

Wnho cares about what excuse Xbox fans will use, do you actually think they'll run out of excuses if the deal gets approved? They'll just go on a multi year victory lap until they are faced with reality again.

Nope, I want them to feel completely hopeless.

 

[KiryuRealty]

What 'innovation' is he talking about?

Making shit games, buying multiple publishers in a row to gobble up as much of the biggest IP's as possible so they CONTROL who gets what and decrease any likelihood of new entrants succeeding in the industry? Subsidizing their gaming with billions from their monopolies in other industries? Using a subscription as a vehicle to undercut competition?

What are these people on?

I honestly think some of them have Sony and Microsoft swapped in their minds, because all the innovation in high-end consoles seems to come from one place, and it isn’t Redmond, Washington.

 

[Deleted member 417]

I think if they attained approval to buy ABK, they would just keep going and buy more and more IPs. There would be no reason to stop and no one to stop them. Then, in 10 years, when all those contracts expired - we would all have to use a MS account in some form to play all those titles and most likely through the cloud. Perhaps many of those franchises would be less quality than they once were but, as we saw with the recent Redfall, that wouldn't matter anyway.

I'd rather not lose access to ABK'S IP and who knows how many other publisher's games afterwards just to maybe prove a point about Xbox management. I'd much rather just keep playing those games on Playstation and not have to worry about them going anywhere.

Wnho cares about what excuse Xbox fans will use, do you actually think they'll run out of excuses if the deal gets approved? They'll just go on a multi year victory lap until they are faced with reality again.

Nope, I want them to feel completely hopeless.

I want MS to buy all of the shitty, money-grabbing, broken-game-releasing, mtx-loving, scummy-practice-using, American-greed-filled companies, so that all of the dross is in one place, easy to avoid and I can watch all of the rot of the industry collapse onto of itself.

 

[Nhomnhom]

I want MS to buy all of the shitty, money-grabbing, broken-game-releasing, mtx-loving, scummy-practice-using, American-greed-filled companies, so that all of the dross is in one place, easy to avoid and I can watch all of the rot of the industry collapse onto of itself.

ABK would just keep Xbox from collapsing since they actually make a lot of money as opposed to the Xbox division.

 

[Deleted member 417]

ABK would just keep Xbox from collapsing since they actually make a lot of money as opposed to the Xbox division.

They make money now, just wait until Phil 'saviour of xbox, publisher of the year 2021, nice-guy gamer' Spencer gets his mitts on them.

CoD, Overwatch and WoW would be milked into oblivion. Diablo would become an MTX riddled bug-fest and none of those franchises would have a sequel ever again.

Rinse and repeat for T2, EA and Ubisoft. Not to mention the 10's of thousands of people who would be laid off because, Good-guy MS.

 

[Nhomnhom]

They make money now, just wait until Phil 'saviour of xbox, publisher of the year 2021, nice-guy gamer' Spencer gets his mitts on them.

CoD, Overwatch and WoW would be milked into oblivion. Diablo would become an MTX riddled bug-fest and none of those franchises would have a sequel ever again.

Rinse and repeat for T2, EA and Ubisoft. Not to mention the 10's of thousands of people who would be laid off because, Good-guy MS.

I would still take the Xbox collapse now instead of years down the line.

 

[AshHunter216]

I want MS to buy all of the shitty, money-grabbing, broken-game-releasing, mtx-loving, scummy-practice-using, American-greed-filled companies, so that all of the dross is in one place, easy to avoid and I can watch all of the rot of the industry collapse onto of itself.

My concern is if their next targets are places like Sega, Capcom, Bandai-Namco, etc., places with good games that would really suck to lose.

 

[Swift_Star]

I love how Bernd is seething over the blocking. I just wished he were here so I could laugh straight at this face.

 

[Gediminas]

I love how Bernd is seething over the blocking. I just wished he were here so I could laugh straight at this face.

i am just happy, he is not here, writing shit like this.

 

[Dick Jones]

I love how Bernd is seething over the blocking. I just wished he were here so I could laugh straight at this face.

Mr bundles himself.

 

[Swift_Star]

So weird the amount of no pfp users on Era with low post count championing the deal or trying to make counterpoints to CMA's findings. Must be astroturfers.

 

[AshHunter216]

So does anyone think the EU are actually going to block and were just waiting to see what the CMA did or are they firmly on MS side? If they take MS side will that give MS a morale boost and encourage them to keep trying to fight CMA and FTC for this deal? It seems like either way, the CMA's decision will cause them to miss their deadline and they'll have to meet with ABK to see if their investors still want to go through with this given that the chances of the CAT overturning/the decision changing are very slim.

Also, do MS have to pay the 3 billion fee regardless because of the cma blocking and causing them to miss their deadline?