Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard may go ahead in the United States, as Judge Corley sees no danger of harming competition.

  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Taking over Activision and making CoD an exclusive down the line (I know the deal specifies not for a while, but it’s clear as soon as that period is up they’ll be making it an exclusive) is a negative move to combat that - it tries to combat dominance by introducing dominance

    Microsoft should invest in their own exclusives to improve their own offering without affecting Sony, which would leave both in good positions, rather than taking offerings away from Sony which leaves both in mediocre positions.

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      1 year ago

      It’s a 10 year deal. Sony can use that decade to invest in its own shooters like they used to with Killzone.

      Sony refused to allow cross play for years, effectively making you buy a PS to play with your friends. They took cross platform MMOs like Destiny and made entire parts of it exclusive, stealing what should have been available to everyone who already paid.

      Meanwhile Microsoft makes their stuff available on Steam, has nearly-full backcompat going back two decades, and gives me a path to play my games on phone.

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        1 year ago

        Regulate Sony to not be so anti-competitive then, rather than turning Microsoft into them