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positivfeedback t1_j4rjpv5 wrote

Reply to comment by Cabalthaw in Microsoft Reportedly to Receive EU Antitrust Warning Over Activision Blizzard Deal by No-Drawing-6975

How is this good for consumers? You’re being intellectually dishonest. Developing an exclusive is different than acquiring IP that is heavily featured and embraced on multiple platforms and making it exclusive. Nintendo doesn’t do that type of M&A. And Sony has generally been playing follow the leader with Microsoft in this regard.

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CheeseCakeDeliciouss t1_j4si1ng wrote

>How is this good for consumers?

Console Warriors perspective:

"I am a normal person, I do not have enough expendable funds for a high end computer. So I buy a console, these exclusives allow for me to feel better than the rich people and I can feel better than most of them knowing my purchase has some worth that can't be made into nothing by a high end PC"

You really seem to not understand basic human pride

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SniperSid t1_j4t2ovy wrote

> "So I buy a console, these exclusives allow for me to feel better than the rich people and I can feel better than most of them knowing my purchase has some worth that can't be made into nothing by a high end PC"

The average person doesn't think like that at all. The fact you think they do suggests you need to get out of your momma's basement a bit more and go interact with people in the real world.

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CheeseCakeDeliciouss t1_j4t3c19 wrote

Homie we're on Reddit, we aren't normal people.

(And I also adjusted the text to make you happy)

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Cabalthaw t1_j4yg62e wrote

I'm assuming you don't know anything about Blizzard or anything about Microsoft games at the moment?

  1. Blizzard is absolutely awful. World of Warcraft was a massive game driven into the dump. Heroes of the Storm was a great game that simply didn't bring in the mega bucks so they killed it. Diablo is in shambles and the company seems to want to persue mobile games. This is not good for consumers.

  2. Microsoft games have been absolutely killing it. Their Xbox Game pass is extremely good value and features a wide array of games. They've been investing in bringing back great titles such as recently Age of Empires 4, which they did a fantastic job with reaching out to Relic studios for help with, and Fable 4 which is on the radar.

Ultimately. Microsoft might not be very good. But it's less about how good Microsoft is and more about how bad Blizzard is. Microsoft studios might be able to actually do something with the IP that is better for consumers as opposed to the really overly exploitative practices Activision Blizzard have been doing.

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this_barb t1_j4rpism wrote

There's plenty of games that are exclusive but are not first party. Actually, that's the vast majority of platform exclusives.

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positivfeedback t1_j4rs8sb wrote

Third party exclusives are not at issue here. Those are negotiated at arm's length. The issue is first party exclusives which certain Activision titles will become if Microsoft acquires the company.

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