Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

[Papacheeks]

MS can now buy anything and anyone they want

After this gets approved with the purposed Remedies, the odds of them buying another publisher is close to off the table at this point. If they try to buy Sega or someone small, they are going to get raked through the coals.

And I know from people I talk to who have Microsoft investments, that a lot of big players on the board are not super happy right now with Xbox division. The odds of them in a year or so going after another publisher would automatically be blocked.

They can buy studios, but even then the size of them would be looked at from this point on.

 

[Swift_Star]

Well, it is what it is.
CoD will die a slow, painful death.

 

[Dabaus]

Your move, Sony.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

Corruption everywhere and useless regulators.

At least this frankenstein deal is so ugly, MS won't have any advantages for years.

 

[Swift_Star]

Your move, Sony.

Sony is fine and will continue to be fine.
CoD will die.

 

[AshHunter216]

Your move, Sony.

You're setting yourself up for disappointment looking for Sony to instantly fire back. Next year at the earliest once they get their new budget. At least MS will need some time to fully absorb ABK. Could be a bit of a cooldown period before they go on their next "hunt".

 

[Would_you_kindly]

Ah well, at least MS was forced to work for it. Unsurprisingly some of the fanboys on reddit want MS to start snatching up Japanese publishers next. No matter what they say, it's not about competition, it's about ensuring that Playstation gamers have less options. With the latest leaks we'll see how Japanese regulators and devs react to any future attempts. At any rate, MS will probably need a while to fully integrate ABK, so we'll get a break from this BS outside of their shills begging them to buy more things. I am curious as to whether ABK will boost Gamepass enough to prevent them from leaving gaming by 2027, lol.

I don't know how anyone can possibly say this is 'competition' when the only console maker that can afford to do it are Microsoft

 

[AshHunter216]

I don't know how anyone can possibly say this is 'competition' when the only console maker that can afford to do it are Microsoft

It's not fair, but Sony will just have to really come with it going forward. I would recommend taking a break from social media just to detox from all the taunting the Xbox fanboys will be doing though.

 

[Swift_Star]

You're setting yourself up for disappointment looking for Sony to instantly fire back. Next year at the earliest once they get their new budget. At least MS will need some time to fully absorb ABK. Could be a bit of a cooldown period before they go on their next "hunt".

Oh, I'm expecting this merge to be a truly shitshow, tbh.
It's so huge, so complex...
They're spending huge amounts of money on a consultancy firm to help them merge sucessfully.
There are so many jobs that are going to be lost in the process.
And the system bloat, system redundancy,
This is truly going to be a herculean task, it's one of the biggest and more complex merges in history.

 

[AshHunter216]

Oh, I'm expecting this merge to be a truly shitshow, tbh.
It's so huge, so complex...
They're spending huge amounts of money on a consultancy firm to help them merge sucessfully.
There are so many jobs that are going to be lost in the process.
And the system bloat, system redundancy,
This is truly going to be a herculean task, it's one of the biggest and more complex merges in history.

I just wish MS would leave the rest of us alone who aren't interested in their platform.

 

[Johnic]

Oh, I'm expecting this merge to be a truly shitshow, tbh.
It's so huge, so complex...
They're spending huge amounts of money on a consultancy firm to help them merge sucessfully.
There are so many jobs that are going to be lost in the process.
And the system bloat, system redundancy,
This is truly going to be a herculean task, it's one of the biggest and more complex merges in history.

And we wish them all the worst of luck in that task...

 

[Papacheeks]

Lono is popping off about all the dumb ass "so called Journalists" like Tom warren, Jez:

 

[Johnic]

Unfortunately, this guy only has a small fracture of a fanbase, compared to what MS spin doctors have. And the guy's just stating facts.

 

[Dabaus]

Lono is popping off about all the dumb ass "so called Journalists" like Tom warren, Jez:

Whats he saying?

 

[Papacheeks]

Whats he saying?

His intro went over the emails and what the landscape would be like if MS were able to buy Nintendo. He literally calls out how Journalists have been covering this information thats linked to FTC/CMA trails with Microsoft.

Jez, Tom warran are literal brand journalists.

 

[AshHunter216]

It would be funny to watch the reactions if Sony ever did buy something somewhat major and didn't get near as much shit from regulators as MS did. They were already angry that Sony didn't get in trouble for buying some small live service devs as if something like that would even warrant a reaction from regulators.

 

[Would_you_kindly]

It would be funny to watch the reactions if Sony ever did buy something somewhat major and didn't get near as much shit from regulators as MS did. They were already angry that Sony didn't get in trouble for buying some small live service devs as if something like that would even warrant a reaction from regulators.

The false equivalencies between this (right after zenimax aswell) & bungie with a grand total of one IP that will stay multiplatform (I know there working on other live service junk but right now they only have destiny which is pretty much just online only halo with a more boring complicated story) was hilarious

 

[Dabaus]

Saw this on 4chan, no idea if it’s real or someone just spamming:

Gareth Sutcliffe, games analyst at Enders Analysis, said there could be recriminations for Microsoft's top executives for drawing out the process. "It will be an ongoing question how Brad Smith and Phil Spencer [Microsoft's gaming chief] read the UK market and regulator so wrong and whether they will be held accountable — it has cost months and hundreds of millions of dollars to get this approval."
It's over xbros...

 

[Would_you_kindly]

I know this isn't related to the thread but I just saw this & wanted to share it

'this isn't a service game' ... but you have to be connected to our servers in order to play it because there's no offline

 

[reziel]

Saw this on 4chan, no idea if it’s real or someone just spamming:

Gareth Sutcliffe, games analyst at Enders Analysis, said there could be recriminations for Microsoft's top executives for drawing out the process. "It will be an ongoing question how Brad Smith and Phil Spencer [Microsoft's gaming chief] read the UK market and regulator so wrong and whether they will be held accountable — it has cost months and hundreds of millions of dollars to get this approval."
It's over xbros...

Can they really blame them though? Microsoft could've easily pulled the plug when things got rough at the start but they didn't it's just as much their fault as Brad and Phil's.
Not to mention the 10,000 layoffs they did earlier in the year.