Cod is a lost cause at this point
After 10 years agreement done its goodbye
Everyone here already knows that
Lets move on from that conversation
We are finished talking about cod
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After 10 years agreement done its goodbye
Everyone here already knows that
Lets move on from that conversation
We are finished talking about cod
Judge denied FTC Pi and shortly after CMA stated they are open to another remedy negotiation with MS.
No other franchise does that.
Also, COD is the 4th best selling franchise ever, behind Pokemon, Mario and Tetris, I believe. Don't quote me on the last one. But take into account they have been out much longer than COD.
At this point it's just coping. It's the same deal with the Zenimax acquisition. Except this time, COD will REALLY hurt. I mean, you're going against what Sony themselves said.
PlayStation got their last acquisition war chest as an investment from Sony Proper across all divisions to try to strengthen the gaming division, fam. That's how it works.
Mass consolidation is bad no matter who does it, though. That you seem to not care so long as it might have hurt the company you seem to hate is odd.
CoD was the main concern for Sony, like it or not. We're not going to be finished talking about it for a while, sadly.
BG is NOT an Xbox main, nor is he a fanboy. He's been critical of this deal the whole time. That's why he also opposes Sony buying any.
Sadly, that's not a realistic position anymore.
MS sucks way more than Sony, Nintendo or Valve, why must I pretend I want them to control the direction of the market? Their vision for what games should be is and has always been awful.
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So fukin what cod is is xbox property now
Enough bringing that dirty crap on my face
Cod this cod this cod this cod that
Fukin shite
You're so naive to only look at this in terms of generic customer interests. ABK did not need MS to buy them to justify bringing COD back to Switch; they could have looked at bringing mobile COD Warfare to Switch instead.
MS buying Zenimax, so far, hasn't resulted in a SINGLE new game from Zenimax that wasn't already in the works pre-acquisition, or that they wouldn't have pursued if they were still on their own. If anything, it now means non-MS gamers get LESS Zenimax games, i.e MS renegotiating the terms of the Indiana Jones contract.
Where are the "better worker conditions" for the Zenimax teams? What IP outside of COD have MS or ABK even indicated expanding to new platforms? What good does COD staying multiplat matter if MS set licensing terms that squeeze out Sony's potential revenue & profits on that content access, and leverage other content in package deals to artificially increase the buying price for direct competitors as a result, which in turn actually harms customers as well?
Some of you really have not thought all of this through, or have already forgotten the intentions clearly expressed in leaked documents.
Possibly. Gonna depend on what the CMA expects vs what Mircosoft is willing to do.
And that's why they've been in last place. That doesn't mean you need to resort to anti-competitive measures and "kill them off".
Hell, they want to do that. They've not just assessed Sega, also Square-Enix, one of Sony's strongest 3P partners.
Like I've said, if Sony don't do what they know has to be done, and thinks things will remain well just business as usual with some bloated GaaS push, then they deserve to fall into market irrelevancy. A lot of people calling @Nhomnhom a doomposter but he is right on that part.
Not saying Sony have to be egregious; just 1-2 key 3P acquisitions publisher-wise, a few among smaller 3P devs from various regions, and the rest towards buying big blocks of shares into the major 3P AAA and AA publishers (aka the Tencent strategy) and investments into a few of those (like they've done with Kadokawa and Epic).
If someone Sony don't do ANY of that, well can't say they haven't had warning signs ahead of time
It was also the FTC's failure to not assume control of the discussion and tie the console concerns back into cloud, or as someone else mentioned here, make the argument about how the acquisition hurt customers instead of focusing on how it hurt Sony (or at least tie into how it would hurt customers by hurting Sony. At least that much).
Yes you do, if you know they are part of a company worth 2.5 trillion dollars known for their aggressive anti-competitive and corrupt practices. Sony should've known who they were dealing with. Seems like they fell for Phil Spencer bullshit act that couldn't even fool most people in this forum.
Both the Xbox One and Series are awful products, MS destroyed their internal studios, made countless terrible calls, yet Sony was more concerned with short term profits and were comfortable just having to compete with the terrible Xbox division and chose not to compete with Nintendo and PC.
Had Sony kept the attitude that resulted in the PS4, MS wouldn't even be thinking they had a chance to compete.
The ftc made it into sony vs ms and they sucked at making that case. Honestly the cma apparently folding means they cant prove their case either.
They're reporting that CMA has agreed with MS on a small divestiture.
Judge made a decision within weeks and now CMA will accept remedies in days before the deadline lol.
That's funny.
Judge made a decision within weeks and now CMA will accept remedies in days before the deadline lol.
That's funny.
Nowhere as they seen to be harassing trans people left and right.