Microsoft Buying Activision Blizzard.

[itsyoung!!]

I wasn't just talking about here
you go on Twitter people are talking about the government stepping in

I mean.... Government gone do what the government gone want to do.. They blocked AT&T from buying T-Mobile after they agreed to sell. Saying it would be a monopoly. But then let T-Mobile buy Metro PCS and then Sprint which is even more of a monopoly

 

[spliz]

im not talking about the sale going through.. im talking about the government stepping in and telling both Microsoft and Sony that they need to play more fair for the consumers when it comes to game exclusivity.

I could see this too.

 

[Leasy]

Meanwhile Sony along with 2 other companies owns the majority of the music industry. But the government is going step in for some video games? Disney/Fox, NBC/Comcast. Multimedia consolidation isn't unprecedented.

How the hell can you compete with that this generation and next?

 

[spliz]

I mean.... Government gone do what the government gone want to do.. They blocked AT&T from buying T-Mobile after they agreed to sell. Saying it would be a monopoly. But then let T-Mobile buy Metro PCS and then Sprint which is even more of a monopoly

Yup. U just never know. The game aint fair these days anyway. Look at Disney.

 

[TripleAgent]

All jokes aside, thanks again to all the Sony stans out there for all of the shyt talking, spiking the ball, ridicule and venom. You finally got Phil (and Satya) motivated enough to really open the wallet, and now I'm eating at unprecedented levels.



Thanks for delaying Halo again, too.

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

You can buy all the consoles and still be a Stan. Instead of spending more money, just stop being a fukkin weirdo

I don't know why some of these dude believe owing [all of] something makes them some kind of objective beacon free of any and all bias.

 

[GoldenGlove]

I was just responding to you using the companies valuation as some kind of evidence to how easy it will be to make the money back. I simply pointed out they don't make that much on a year to year basis.

Saying the cost of this investment is like 1% of the companies valuation is really all I was replying too. I was just pointing out you conflating a companies overall value with how easy it will be to earn back on a new investment, because it's a weird conflation and had no real bearing on the point you were trying to make.

My 10k in credit card debt is 1% what my total assets are worth. So I should be able to pay it off in no time? Or is how much money I make more relevant?

I'm not even disagreeing they will make the money back, just the conflation.

I guess what I was getting at was that MS won't be depending on this acquisition to "make the money back" like that because they touch so many facets of our lives outside of gaming.

Even if this deal completely flops, MS isn't going under

 

[Raiders]

I haven’t bought a COD game in years, but day one on gamepass I’ll probably hop back in and see what has changed.

 

[kdslittlebro]

But Microsoft is the only company changing the mold to gaming with these acquisitions. I can play the game anywhere.. Why not be excited?

There’s a wide gulf between excitement and wild stanning.
If you wearing one of these

Take a step back, set the Pompoms down, and talk to your kids

 

[SCJoe]

The talk of the acquisition being for the meta verse too is pretty interesting. They could take wow and put it in vr as wow2 then print money.

 

[Sghost597]

I hope people don't think this is good.

This is honestly really bad for the industry If M$ can just buy out the competition. We don't want a Madden situation with gaming.

I hope the sale doesn't go through.

 

[RennisDeynolds]

I wasn't just talking about here
you go on Twitter people are talking about the government stepping in

Like I told you get sued for antitrust laws. NO. Msft did that, So hopefully you won't have to go through that




The eyes are focused on Facebook now. And after that complete sham where they let AT&T buy up Warner entertainment just to spin it off months later....all bets are off now

 

[Phillyrider807]

Nintendo watching all of this like (We still got Pokemon and Animal Crossing )

 

[Barnett114]

Dumbass Insomniac just made an Xbox One title and Naughty Dog was making games for other platforms for years until Sony bought them. Y'all dikkride the gaming anger because when Sony does it, yall open yall mouths and take it. Microsoft omg this is not right.

Make it make sense

By time Sony bought Naughty Dog, they had been making Sony exclusives from 1996 on

 

[KushSkywalker]

I guess what I was getting at was that MS won't be depending on this acquisition to "make the money back" like that because they touch so many facets of our lives outside of gaming.

Even if this deal completely flops, MS isn't going under

Agreed