Xbox maker Microsoft closed its $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard on Friday, swelling its heft in the video-gaming market with best-selling titles including "Call of Duty" to better compete with industry leader Sony .
Look at how Epic was doing business. They threw around hundreds of millions of dollars to buy exclusivity. And Epic was small time compared to MS. What happens when they do the same but on a larger scale? They buy exclusivity to Game Pass forever? They’re already buying gaming powerhouses, indie games are a drop in the bucket.
This merger should be opposed by everyone. It’s a dark sign of things to come. They’ve already shown they WILL cut out all competition once they buy competitors.
They kind of can’t buy any competitors at this point. They got through this acquisition by the skin of their teeth and have to cool it, and after all that, I doubt this leads to a future where they’ve got a larger market share than PlayStation. There’s also just far too much competition in the gaming space for them to approach a monopoly. Epic couldn’t will their store into superiority over Steam, especially when they’re not doing anything to solve problems for their customers, and Microsoft still has to make good products to get you to buy them too.
Eh, I’m not that hopeful. the FTC asked them questions but it was never really going to stop them. MS has the capital to buy Sony, if it was feasible to do so. I expect them to continue to buy stuff up until they are actually denied. They have the lawyers to throw at the government in perpetuity.
That’s far more cynical than I can meet you at, and it’s probably why the merger isn’t “opposed by everyone”. Microsoft is already dancing right up to the line of antitrust, though I suspect that if they’re broken up, the video game division remains in one piece, not several.
Look at how Epic was doing business. They threw around hundreds of millions of dollars to buy exclusivity. And Epic was small time compared to MS. What happens when they do the same but on a larger scale? They buy exclusivity to Game Pass forever? They’re already buying gaming powerhouses, indie games are a drop in the bucket.
This merger should be opposed by everyone. It’s a dark sign of things to come. They’ve already shown they WILL cut out all competition once they buy competitors.
Fuck Sony, they’re even worse with exclusivity to the point of making hardware that’s difficult to port to and hard to design games for.
They kind of can’t buy any competitors at this point. They got through this acquisition by the skin of their teeth and have to cool it, and after all that, I doubt this leads to a future where they’ve got a larger market share than PlayStation. There’s also just far too much competition in the gaming space for them to approach a monopoly. Epic couldn’t will their store into superiority over Steam, especially when they’re not doing anything to solve problems for their customers, and Microsoft still has to make good products to get you to buy them too.
Eh, I’m not that hopeful. the FTC asked them questions but it was never really going to stop them. MS has the capital to buy Sony, if it was feasible to do so. I expect them to continue to buy stuff up until they are actually denied. They have the lawyers to throw at the government in perpetuity.
That’s far more cynical than I can meet you at, and it’s probably why the merger isn’t “opposed by everyone”. Microsoft is already dancing right up to the line of antitrust, though I suspect that if they’re broken up, the video game division remains in one piece, not several.
@Neato @Shatur @MelodiousFunk @BroBot9000 @SuiXi3D I mean, I would oppose it… but it turns out I hate acti-blizz leadership more than I fear Microsoft.
Yup! They are trying to build their own walled garden like Apple.
This and all other massive company mergers need to be stopped and undone.