The only people on the planet who give a shit about this within the provided context of gaming are Sony fanboys.
If people actually gave a shit about megacorporation problems and the FTC, they would be pissed the FTC took this bullshit case as an excuse to pretend to do things while Walmart and Amazon destroy every grocery chain and many other goods markets.
Within the context of gaming, Activision might be one of the 3 gaming companies worse than Microsoft. Microsoft owning them might actually improve their products and reduce their microtransactions.
I don’t have a current PlayStation or Xbox. I give a shit about this. Because frankly you’re just plain wrong. Two things can be wrong and deserve to be addressed. Just because people are upset about one doesn’t mean they aren’t upset about the other. The FTC should be tackling both. But they are purposefully hobbled by the opposition.
What unique features of Activision are you worried about Microsoft failing to maintain that feels like a valid part of the megacorporations are burning the world to death conversation?
I am interested in what you think Microsoft is going to do to Activision that will be so horrible.
There are no unique features of Activision. Microsoft will not fail to maintain any of them. And that is the problem.
Quite honestly fuck Activision. I don’t give one flying fuck about Activision. Microsoft really can’t do any worse than Activision. That’s a problem is they can’t really do much better either. And it overall reduces choice which is a bigger issue.
The fact that almost all publishing and IP are largely controlled by four or five major groups is bad for consumers, and consumer choice. Tencent, Embracer, Microsoft, and Sony aren’t creative altruistic companies. Most if not all of them are realistically just parasites. Who are more of a burden to the studios under them than they are a help. Who through leveraging stolen money and IP or simple strong arm tactics have managed to acquire all this power and influence unduly. I’m especially looking at Microsoft here. Because let me be extra explicit here. Modern Activision is absolutely horrible. It wasn’t always that way though. Their name actually used to be a bit of a draw as a publisher or developer. But as they grew unnaturally this way the things got worse as they do with any company that grows unnaturally that way. However, Microsoft was never better. This is who Microsoft was from day one. And you can always count on Microsoft to do the wrong thing in the end. So moving from activation to Microsoft will not ultimately be a good thing.
What choices were eliminated? Are you upset the rapist CEO isn’t going to be providing enough avenues for other rapists to publish their games or so etching? Do you think a different set of the 20 billionaires who dictate all of this are now going to dictate it differently?
And again, video games is the market that concerns you for this topic? Again, not the fucking groceries or news media? Fuckimg video games?
This is exactly my point. It’s all bad faith bullshit from Sony fanboys.
The stance will move again and again.
What choices are eliminated by one megacorp owning a different one?
How does this change the market for indie developers?
As someone that has somehow played a lot of FPS over the years and amazingly not spent a dime nor a single minute on Call of Duty games, I’m mostly bemused at this whole thing.
The only people on the planet who give a shit about this within the provided context of gaming are Sony fanboys.
If people actually gave a shit about megacorporation problems and the FTC, they would be pissed the FTC took this bullshit case as an excuse to pretend to do things while Walmart and Amazon destroy every grocery chain and many other goods markets.
Within the context of gaming, Activision might be one of the 3 gaming companies worse than Microsoft. Microsoft owning them might actually improve their products and reduce their microtransactions.
I don’t have a current PlayStation or Xbox. I give a shit about this. Because frankly you’re just plain wrong. Two things can be wrong and deserve to be addressed. Just because people are upset about one doesn’t mean they aren’t upset about the other. The FTC should be tackling both. But they are purposefully hobbled by the opposition.
What unique features of Activision are you worried about Microsoft failing to maintain that feels like a valid part of the megacorporations are burning the world to death conversation?
I am interested in what you think Microsoft is going to do to Activision that will be so horrible.
There are no unique features of Activision. Microsoft will not fail to maintain any of them. And that is the problem.
Quite honestly fuck Activision. I don’t give one flying fuck about Activision. Microsoft really can’t do any worse than Activision. That’s a problem is they can’t really do much better either. And it overall reduces choice which is a bigger issue.
The fact that almost all publishing and IP are largely controlled by four or five major groups is bad for consumers, and consumer choice. Tencent, Embracer, Microsoft, and Sony aren’t creative altruistic companies. Most if not all of them are realistically just parasites. Who are more of a burden to the studios under them than they are a help. Who through leveraging stolen money and IP or simple strong arm tactics have managed to acquire all this power and influence unduly. I’m especially looking at Microsoft here. Because let me be extra explicit here. Modern Activision is absolutely horrible. It wasn’t always that way though. Their name actually used to be a bit of a draw as a publisher or developer. But as they grew unnaturally this way the things got worse as they do with any company that grows unnaturally that way. However, Microsoft was never better. This is who Microsoft was from day one. And you can always count on Microsoft to do the wrong thing in the end. So moving from activation to Microsoft will not ultimately be a good thing.
What choices were eliminated? Are you upset the rapist CEO isn’t going to be providing enough avenues for other rapists to publish their games or so etching? Do you think a different set of the 20 billionaires who dictate all of this are now going to dictate it differently?
And again, video games is the market that concerns you for this topic? Again, not the fucking groceries or news media? Fuckimg video games?
This is exactly my point. It’s all bad faith bullshit from Sony fanboys.
The stance will move again and again.
What choices are eliminated by one megacorp owning a different one?
How does this change the market for indie developers?
As someone that has somehow played a lot of FPS over the years and amazingly not spent a dime nor a single minute on Call of Duty games, I’m mostly bemused at this whole thing.