• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The only people on the planet who give a shit about this within the provided context of gaming are Sony fanboys.

    I’ve owned every Xbox since the OG Xbox and my first thought about the deal was “that shouldn’t be allowed”.

    It is inexcusable to let a trillion dollar profitable corporation purchase any other profitable corporation. If activision sucks the government should do it’s job and investigate them and break them up, not give Microsoft more economic power and less incentive to compete. Good luck getting AB games on whoever tries to launch the next console, if they even bother trying knowing the current hegemony of the gaming landscape.

    Microsoft isn’t some magic unicorn unqiuely capable of running Activision not like a shit bag and no company should be as big as they already are. It’s a hamfisted solution at best to give them control of AB, and one that doesn’t actually address or dicentivize future shitty corporate behaviour.

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      1 year ago

      There’s one family taking over all the auto dealers in my area.I just started working for them and now if I decide to leave, I feel that I’m screwed if I have to find a job elsewhere in my area and my choices will be low. Microsoft taking over everything is not just bad for consumers, but it’s bad for people that work in those industry.

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      1 year ago

      Who are you trying to respond to? I never said Microsoft was good?