It's sad that the avenues meant to stop this are the regulatory agencies, as MS has unfathomable amounts of money that only like 3 companies in the world can compete with. And even the agencies have been neutered by pro corporate judges and pro business appointed economists. The Activision deal being blocked was the only way they'd stop, but with that not looking so good I'm sure they'll be back to consolidating in about 1.5 - 2 years.Sounds like its the same exact shit. Unfortunately, there's no stopping the late-stage capitalism train, and the era of neo/cyber feudalism is taking over.
One day we won't be able to wipe our own ass without using some big corpo toilet paper, and will have to behave like little lemmings so that we're not blacklisted by the only 2 or 3 employers.