The arguments get more disingenuous as things progress 
Can a Arcadiumbreh explain to me like a Joey of why the Microsoft/Activision deal is controversial?
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If you cared about consolidation you would have been yelling about it a long time ago.
You clearly have a disdain specifically for microsoft which is why you keep posting about that windows explorer lawsuit from a long time ago.
Stop with the nonsense. None of you would be running around “concerned” if sony purchased activision, cause none of you have been concerned about the industry consolidation they’ve perpetuated over the years.
Would you guys be cool if Apple was the one who purchased Activision?
Only way to stream Future Activision games was through the App Store. Gotta go buy an Apple TV for console like access.
I have, just not on this board. Hated when Activision started buying studios. Dislike EA for the same reason.
Only way to stream Future Activision games was through the App Store. Gotta go buy an Apple TV for console like access.
I have, just not on this board. Hated when Activision started buying studios. Dislike EA for the same reason.
I’d rather sony or somebody else’s who has more experience in gaming make the purchase but i wouldn’t be mad.
Business happens every day B. If apple really gave me a reason to buy their hardware i would do it.
Aren’t you always bragging about how you have all platforms. You’d just have another one if you wanted to play the games they are offering
Now your apple doomsday scenario is nothing like what’s happening with the Microsoft merger. So why you so bothered
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I have criticized Microsoft plenty on here, ask @PS5 . Sony's game design is stale because it is all 'cinematic game experiences' . Yes I have played Returnal I actually love that game and want Sony to make more games like that, NOT mid ass shyt like Horizon or TLOU.
BOTW is definitely a handheld game bro, imagine if Nintendo had the PS5 level of technology to make a Zelda game, shyt would be insane. As long as they are the overwhelming marketshare holder it's a monopoly until someone else breaks into that space.
You saying all this and still haven't given me one good reason why as a gamer you should not want this deal to go through? Otherwise ya fat ass is just talking out the side of your neck. I'm on the side of games, Microsoft buying Activision is not gonna hurt games at all bruh.
I get it's business. Doesn't mean I have to like it as a consumer.I’d rather sony or somebody else’s who has more experience in gaming make the purchase but i wouldn’t be mad.
Business happens every day B. If apple really gave me a reason to buy their hardware i would do it.
Aren’t you always bragging about how you have all platforms. You’d just have another one if you wanted to play the games they are offering
Now your apple doomsday scenario is nothing like what’s happening with the Microsoft merger. So why you so bothered
As long as you understand it's not a stan thing with me, I'm done here.
But you ain’t mad at sony tho. The biggest perpetrator and beneficiary of the industry’s consolidation???
Activision is already thoroughly consolidated. They’ve already bought up a huge portion of the industry and put it on one franchise and signed with one partner at the detriment of the majority of gamers outside that partner.
If anything the microsoft merger effectively pulls some of that back and puts some money/talent toward other franchises and gives consumers more choices than they had before.
Yeah, millions disagree with you about TLOU and Horizon. TLOU has some of the best TPS gameplay in a shooting game easily. The fact that it's also like playing a movie is literally chef's kiss.
I enjoyed the hell out of "PLAYING" TLOU part 2. Hell, it's why there's a whole MP portion being made separately just for the game.
GT7, Ratchet, Stray, Dreams, Spider-Man etc are all GREAT and AMAZING games. Calling the aforementioned games "Stale" is basically subjective and comes off again as some sort of fanboy critique.
Saying they're all cinematic game experiences as if it's some sort of "bad" thing is weird man and is why I always side-eye whoever says that. Hell, Sony literally just released a second VR headset with games that completely change how a game is experienced. Weird critique that seems to always come from supposed "non stans".
Switch is a hybrid console . BOTW is their biggest Zelda game to date and is far more ambitious than previous "console" games. It's just hybrid.
Well I never stated a position that I DON'T want this to go through. You guys have selective reading because I've never even stated that. I just have said that people make it seem like it's not unprecedented in gaming acquisitions. That's the strawman that keeps getting thrown out.
Lol here's the ad hominem attacks. Not even going to feed into that.
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But you ain’t mad at sony tho. The biggest perpetrator and beneficiary of the industry’s consolidation???
Activision is already thoroughly consolidated. They’ve already bought up a huge portion of the industry and put it on one franchise and signed with one partner at the detriment of the majority of gamers outside that partner.
If anything the microsoft merger effectively pulls some of that back and puts some money/talent toward other franchises and gives consumers more choices than they had before.
It's anti competitive
Microsoft just decided to buy everything up rather than compete
They ain't did anything with the brands they bought like 4 years ago
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All those studios you just mentioned were bought by Sony
you literally just killed your entire point 
(Santa Monica was not bought, but the studios in Santa Monica that develop the games were bought). Sony aint build up shyt 
Sony Acquires Naughty Dog (naughty dog bought)
PlayStation Acquires Its Fifth Studio This Year - IGN (santa monica merger)
Sony purchased Insomniac Games for $229M
But still no follow up to Ratchet & Clank (2016)!
www.polygon.com
Sony buys inFamous dev Sucker Punch
Sony has bought inFamous and Sly Cooper developer Sucker Punch. The US studio, which has been making PlayStation games …
www.eurogamer.net
Bend Studio - Wikipedia
literally 100% of the studios/developers you listed were bought by Sony so Nintendo and Microsoft could not gain access to their games
the posters here are fukking retarded
The only difference is, Microsoft is trying to buy a bigger developer than Sony can afford, so Sony is throwing a hissy fit.
itsyoung!!
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the Sony business model the past 25 years almost all of Sony's exclusive hits are from studios they bought big bank take lil bank
I don't like it because I don't trust corporations, and that is especially double for Microsoft. They're all going to do what is in their interest, and that includes anti-consumer crap. I'll leave it at that because others have better eloquently laid out how I feel.
They bought smaller studios that they already had close relations with. Act like buying those studios when they did, and buying Activision/Blizzard and Bethesda are the same thing lolAll those studios you just mentioned were bought by Sony
Sony Acquires Naughty Dog (naughty dog bought)
PlayStation Acquires Its Fifth Studio This Year - IGN (santa monica merger)
Sony purchased Insomniac Games for $229M
But still no follow up to Ratchet & Clank (2016)!Sony buys inFamous dev Sucker Punch
Sony has bought inFamous and Sly Cooper developer Sucker Punch. The US studio, which has been making PlayStation games …Bend Studio - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
literally 100% of the studios/developers you listed were bought by Sony so Nintendo and Microsoft could not gain access to their games
the posters here are fukking retarded
The only difference is, Microsoft is trying to buy a bigger developer than Sony can afford, so Sony is throwing a hissy fit.
Microsoft can't make it work with their own studios and IPs clearly. They don't have the creativity. So they're buying Elder Scrolls and COD lol
@Blessed Koala as you can see it’s just dudes in their feelings. Microsoft bullied them in high school so they just can’t stand to see xbox doing well. 
