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phantompower_48v t1_j14b8dh wrote

These huge mergers are always anti-competitive never good for consumers. This should absolutely get blocked. You know what would be good for consumers? If microsoft took that $69 billion and built a new game development studio. Force more competition in the market and create new content.

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dudeN7 t1_j14ggto wrote

How could MS owing Activision make anything worse? Seriously, ABK is the worst, greediest and most anti-consumer games publisher on our planet right now. It can't get worse. CoD will remain multiplat and there's a chance that the other games remain multiplat as well.

There have been so many mergers and buyouts recently that actually impacted many areas of the world's economics and they passes without any issues. MS buying a game publisher is irrelevant in comparison.

Also, they're still far from a monopoly afterwards.

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Ok_Championship_2180 t1_j16qmxi wrote

They will take cod off PlayStation as soon as they can, just like they did with Bethesda games after they said they wouldn’t.

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phantompower_48v t1_j14tzqh wrote

How has any mega merger in any industry made things better for consumers? If this goes through MS will clean house at Activision-blizzard while leaning into the most profitable aspects of the acquisition, which is pay-to-play/micro transaction heavy games. They’ll just continue to milk as much as they can from the acquired IP, instead of creating something new It’s delusional to think this would be good for the industry and for consumers.

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DrB00 t1_j14fcaf wrote

Force Sony to stop making every game exclusive to Playstation

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antunezn0n0 t1_j15b0e6 wrote

Sony isn't just buying publishers they have develop their own studios

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pvtshoebox t1_j15vh2o wrote

When Sony is currently making more revenue as a video game publisher than Microsoft and Activision Blizzard combined - how would Microsoft + Activision Blizzard be considered a monopoly?

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theboyonthetrain t1_j14m9cc wrote

This is dumb because nobody says it about Nintendo. Microsoft is huge and they can't manage to produce consistent AAA games that generate the successes they want. I'd say Microsoft should just make better games especially with how big they already are. I mean Microsoft as a whole is massive. So in theory, there is a good argument Microsoft getting the acquisition anticompetitive imo. But I wouldn't 100% disagree or agree, I just think MS isn't doing well at gaming and that really has less to do with PlayStation and Sony 🤷

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