Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

Dick Jones

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What are you talking about. Why would you pay for the cow when you get the milk already.

There is no need to pay for marketing of COD. It's gonna sell anyway. You are already getting the game. There's no need to pay 100+mill marketing for it. Use that money in house. It's not their product and as shown acti were willing to leave at anytime. Investing in Cod isn't worthwhile now at all. They don't care about deals with PS. They were willing to leave. You don't re-invest in companies like that.
How did dropping COD partnership work for Xbox? You are still butthurt over people in Activision looking to make serious money. That sex offender Bobby would have made 185m. Now its gone tits up, he will abide with MS until July so his company gets 3bn for free and tells Microsoft to fuck off as the deal is dead.

You need to relax and think about the bigger picture. Keep getting that COD money, if Sony lose it and it goes to MS, where do you think the casual COD audience are going? It happened before and can happen again. Why are you so mad that people would choose to serve their best interests by getting overpaid for ABK shares? We would all be greedy for an extra 185m. I'd go on tv like Bobby and sing like a canary to ensure my company got 3bn for the pointless last 18 months.
 

Dabaus

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Is PeterOvo Cyrribrae from Resetera?
Makes sense. Beyond delusional on Twitter and resetera with the same avatar.

Speaking of, he’s on this crusade to tell others about the “bias” the games industry has against Xbox.



Bro nobody cares anymore. You’re fighting a war you lost a while ago and screaming into the void. Everyone else has moved on.
 

AshHunter216

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Makes sense. Beyond delusional on Twitter and resetera with the same avatar.

Speaking of, he’s on this crusade to tell others about the “bias” the games industry has against Xbox.



Bro nobody cares anymore. You’re fighting a war you lost a while ago and screaming into the void. Everyone else has moved on.

Pretty funny how much he complains about bias after how much cheerleading for Microsoft's buyouts there's been in the media.
 
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lmao! I'm still on the fence about whether or not we even hear anything about this on Monday given how outdated Reuter's source seems to be.

Personally not expecting anything on the 15th, so 22nd it is.

Makes sense. Beyond delusional on Twitter and resetera with the same avatar.

Speaking of, he’s on this crusade to tell others about the “bias” the games industry has against Xbox.



Bro nobody cares anymore. You’re fighting a war you lost a while ago and screaming into the void. Everyone else has moved on.


I could kind of agree that there are double standards for Nintendo specifically that aren't held for Microsoft and ESPECIALLY aren't held for Sony when it comes to "forgiving" certain technical issues in their games.

OTOH, the last Pokemon games got dinged pretty hard by reviewers for their technical issues, it's possible they're being charitable to Zelda so as not to ding two big Nintendo releases in a row. I'm not even really saying the MC is too high but, in the reviews themselves, some of the technical issues and re-use of assets should at least be mentioned if they do such for other games. You can do that while still giving the game glowing praise otherwise.

Aside that I don't see any real issues with the TotK reviews. The game sounds like it deserves the praise, it's not Nintendo's fault Microsoft released a 55 MC game last week :/

not good, all them losers are gonna spread out all over the web now.

At least they won't have their echo chamber anymore, so that's good maybe.
 

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Swift_Star

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The Era thread should remain closed. It's the biggest source of xbots toxicity currently. Unfortunately, besides being a bubble, Era is a big influential bubble in the gaming space and its toxicity spreads everywhere. The thread SHOULD stay locked until we have news and should be locked a few days after the news.
Enough is enough.
 

Nhomnhom

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We live in the golden era of shitting on Xbox, displaying criticism towards Xbox is finally welcomed pretty much everywhere. Balance has been restored and that is a good thing, now Xbox will have to sink or swim based on their terrible output of games and products.

I don't think we would've reached this stage without them buying Bethesda and their attempt to buy ABK. It seems like these moves just accelerated their demise.