NY Times article on Big tech/corps. Microsoft offered Sony a 10 year contract beginning of November.
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man these pieces of shit of retardera are in full meltdown mode now,some of them like that tigerfish bufoon will be on suicide watch if this deal fails
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-Remember when this deal was announced everyone said this will be a slam dunk and sail through regulatory bodies especially the FTC? Well if the ftc is reviewing it this hard imagine how much worse it is with the CMA and EU.
-10 years sounds good on paper but microsoft could add a poison pill later on if they wanted to implement a store front within call of duty itself so only they get money for the micro transactions.
-10 years also sounds like, to me, (and pointed out by hoegs law) that, it sounds like there is a real possibility the ftc could sue to block this so Microsoft is being extra generous.
-Jim Ryan’s statement about Microsoft having a history of buying out markets and dominating them is an extremely strong statement imo. I don’t know how much regulators take that into account but that’s the best tact Sony could go with imo.
- All of that and regulators have also brought up how this will impact future areas like cloud and streaming.
I don’t think this deal is going through without major concessions. So much so that I wonder if it would even be worth it for Microsoft in the end?
We will see what happens.
-10 years sounds good on paper but microsoft could add a poison pill later on if they wanted to implement a store front within call of duty itself so only they get money for the micro transactions.
-10 years also sounds like, to me, (and pointed out by hoegs law) that, it sounds like there is a real possibility the ftc could sue to block this so Microsoft is being extra generous.
-Jim Ryan’s statement about Microsoft having a history of buying out markets and dominating them is an extremely strong statement imo. I don’t know how much regulators take that into account but that’s the best tact Sony could go with imo.
- All of that and regulators have also brought up how this will impact future areas like cloud and streaming.
I don’t think this deal is going through without major concessions. So much so that I wonder if it would even be worth it for Microsoft in the end?
We will see what happens.
The last paragraph resonates with what I've been saying. If the regulators allow this to go through (especially UK and EU) it will be if heavy concessions. I may be wrong, but everything points to that.
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Not only that but i remember some very specific microsoft pundits gleefully saying, “you don’t spend 70 billion dollars if you don’t intend on making games exclusive” its almost like all the microsoft shills jinxed the fuck out of this acquisition bragging about warchest and exclusivity which they all now have to do a 180 just to have a sniff of this acquisition passing.
I love the circus, shitty western AAA annual game company tying down Microsoft in well over a year in litigation and more money being spent only to have their biggest franchises continue to be on competitors platforms and most likely not even on gamepass for the foreseeable future.
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If they're allowed to buy the biggest third party publisher, no justification can be given for them being blocked for a lesser third party publisher.
So I'd fully expect them to offer loads of cash to Take Two, and make GTA exclusive (or negotiate an unfavorable deal to Sony), offer loads of cash for EA, Ubisoft, etc. Nothing would be off the table.
Their strategy seems to be : starve the competitors of the big third party games, pay their way to a bigger market share. not by offering better games or being innovative, but simply by having the biggest bank account.
they changed the discourse every 6 months,its a circusNot only that but i remember some very specific microsoft pundits gleefully saying, “you don’t spend 70 billion dollars if you don’t intend on making games exclusive” its almost like all the microsoft shills jinxed the fuck out of this acquisition bragging about warchest and exclusivity which they all now have to do a 180 just to have a sniff of this acquisition passing.
I love the circus, shitty western AAA annual game company tying down Microsoft in well over a year in litigation and more money being spent only to have their biggest franchises continue to be on competitors platforms and most likely not even on gamepass for the foreseeable future.
This is the gist of it, they can't build anything, but they happen to have money. So MS buys the middle ground to try to make the competition less attractive.
Most of them are probably bipolar.
A lot of people in the family don't want to accept the death and they are causing problems.
MS said all along the deal would be scrutinized and wouldn’t be done until mid 2023 at the earliest. Nothing has really happened yet that seems to have surprised them.
Before I do a big post, how much of this is really about cod money/mtx percentages/marketshare vs extra king money and further reshaping industry by buying advantage/less future choices.
If it's really only about keeping cod multiplatform like MC, write it it into the sale contract as a concession.
If it's really only about keeping cod multiplatform like MC, write it it into the sale contract as a concession.
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I'm hoping that regardless of if COD is on PlayStation or not that it becomes a platform and they make one more game for this generation in 2024 and then just add content to it so they can take every studio off COD excluding Infinity Ward, Sledgehammer Games and Raven Software. This way, the other studios can develop other games instead of being stuck on COD.
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peter42O
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True but that's a Battle Royale. COD main can just add maps and campaign expansions instead of creating a brand new game every year.
Call of Duty will not be undergoing any dramatic changes anytime soon after just breaking records with MW2