So let's get this right, You are unhappy that people don't want Microsoft to steal their beloved franchises that have been available to people for decades, and if the deal does not go through, then to make it worse, your solution is to fucking steal even more of people's beloved games, Read that sentence again Peter, and try to think about what you are actually saying to me.
I have been playing Bethesda games for decades and now because of Microsoft and their Greedy failed management dealings, instead of creating and investing in more quality studios they just go out and buy them, again with the intention of stealing them from people like me by making their produced content exclusive.
And, to top it off, your absolutely ridiculous solution to all of this is, well, just buy another console.
Would you like to sponsor me for an Xbox, maybe the xbox asking price is not too much to you but it is to me it is, games are a fucking luxury in today's climate, and to add a console to my shopping basket is out of the question.
Why should I now have to go out of pocket for games that have been available to me on my preferred machine for decades?
It sounds to me the only person you are interested in is you, not the millions of gamers that shit like this is affecting.
So yes, your stance is shameful.
The problem is that you think it's stealing or this or that when in reality it's not. NOTHING Microsoft has acquired or will acquire is owned by Sony nor are they or anyone for that matter entitled to any of it. If Sony wants something so badly, they should buy it themselves.
Doesn't matter if something was on PlayStation for years or decades. That literally means nothing because Sony doesn't own the rights or anything to it. You're coming off as just because it was on PlayStation at one point or another from an independent publisher who quite honestly, can do whatever they want including selling their company to a hardware manufacturer is that you're somehow always entitled to having it on PlayStation. Doesn't work that way.
Why shouldn't Microsoft make what they buy exclusive? Why should they make what they bought available to other platforms? Sony acquired Naughty Dog, Guerrilla, Sucker Punch, etc. so by your reasoning, every game they've created should ALSO be on Xbox because why not? Sony didn't create those studios. They acquired them. And thus, if they didn't, nothing you've gotten from them would even exist. There would be no Uncharted, no Horizon, no Killzone, etc. So it's okay for Sony to acquire studios that will then create and develop games but Microsoft can't buy anything and do the same?
If Google ended up with Bethesda and kept everything exclusive to Stadia because yeah, they would have, would you still be complaining? If Sony acquires a publisher and keeps everything exclusive, would you still say that they should be available on Xbox? Of course you wouldn't. Sony and PlayStation are the favorites who can do no wrong and whenever it looks like Microsoft may do something that makes it bad for Sony and PlayStation, everyone wants to throw a fit. Oh well.
Me wanting to see Nadella pay for GTA 6 or whatever if the deal falls through is simple - Sony has literally done this for 27+ years. You and others here don't seem to have any issues with that whatsoever because it favors YOUR platform of choice, right? And since no one cares about when Sony does that, then why should you or anyone care if Microsoft does the same?
Microsoft paid for Rise of the Tomb Raider over 7 years ago and people still bitch about that today. Why? Because it wasn't Sony that paid for it? Being on a platform for years or decades means nothing. The Elder Scrolls was on Xbox original long before it ever went to PlayStation but yet, you still feel like you're owed it right? You're not. You're just not.
As for me saying, buying the other console. Fuck yeah. Buy the other box. I did. Why can't anyone else? If Bethesda's games for example are so important to you and you want to play them, like truly play them. Then what's stopping you? Money? That's a lame ass excuse because gaming has always been an expensive hobby/luxury. Gaming is NOT a necessity. If someone can't afford to have the consoles to game, then I'll say it straight out - quit gaming. Live within your means. I don't have the money to travel the world or do other shit but I don't cry about others being able to do it. That's not a them problem, that's a me problem. Same situation here. It's not any different regardless of how you want to look at it.
Everyone wants what they want on their own platform of choice but life doesn't work that way and neither does the gaming industry because for every complaint against what Microsoft has done or will do, Sony has done the same. It doesn't matter if it's a publisher, a studio or an individual game. You're still taking games away from both sides or does it only count when it goes one way?
One thing I have realized here and in general with PlayStation fans is that if Microsoft buys a studio or publisher, you cry. If Microsoft were to build studios from the ground up like The Initiative and then can't release anything for years or however long it may be, you bash them.
Microsoft can't win either way. They will never ever win ANY OF YOU over regardless of what they do so why even bother? If im Microsoft, I concentrate on the Xbox user base and focus on those who don't have any issues with buying and owning an Xbox to play the games that they want to play, exclusive or not. For those that have a problem with this, stay with your PlayStation and whatever you get, you get and that's it.
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