This is the dumbest shyt ever. The 60% wouldn't be cut off, they would just buy a fukking xbox.
Microsofts confirms activision/blizzard games will remain on PS and Nintendo after agreements
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This is the dumbest shyt ever. The 60% wouldn't be cut off, they would just buy a fukking xbox.
Gamepass day 1 and they collect money from Sony Stans™70b for gamepass day 1
microsoft really dont give a fukk about money
So after the terms expire and they come to Sony and say you can keep Call of Duty on your platform but in exchange we want...
Then what? What happens when that becomes leverage to negotiate terms the other party might not want like say Game Pass availability on Playstation or Switch?
What happens when leadership may change and what new leaders want done align with what these want or will do?
Again I'm not saying they do or don't want it right now I'm saying the government needs to take every ounce of wiggle room away from Microsoft and put it in writing as a very specific condition of the merger and if they don't abide force a breakup of the company.
It is some fakkity shyt if MS has to play by the "rules", but Sony doesn't. Win/win though.
As usual y’all stuck on console wars and missing the point.
Microsoft has made it very clear they are not competing with Nintendo and Sony. They are fighting Google, Apple, Facebook.
This is all to limit their inroads into the industry and when if they do become major players it’s to set the standard for which they have to play.
Remember Microsoft fighting with Apple over how the store works for monetization, this is them “putting their money where their mouth is” and setting the example for how they want digital video game stores to work going forward.
Y’all so stuck on COD exclusive or not, your missed the real news in the announcement.
They are setting by example, the way they want to industry to work going forward.
I know y’all just wanna hate Microsoft at every step, but this is actually an attempt at a better future for video game consumers.
Microsoft has made it very clear they are not competing with Nintendo and Sony. They are fighting Google, Apple, Facebook.
This is all to limit their inroads into the industry and when if they do become major players it’s to set the standard for which they have to play.
Remember Microsoft fighting with Apple over how the store works for monetization, this is them “putting their money where their mouth is” and setting the example for how they want digital video game stores to work going forward.
Y’all so stuck on COD exclusive or not, your missed the real news in the announcement.
They are trying to get their store and Gamepass on everything, and they are also gonna allow devs to have their own payment systems within the store.Microsoft said:
They are setting by example, the way they want to industry to work going forward.
I know y’all just wanna hate Microsoft at every step, but this is actually an attempt at a better future for video game consumers.
Nobody really cares about Microsoft's app store. It's easy to limit terms on such a store. People avoid it whenever possible.
Greenhornet
A God Among Kings
welcome to last month
First off, this isn’t true. The store is used by millions. Second this pertains to the store on xbox as well. 3rd they announced that they are working on an all new “next gen” store to implement all of this.
After the opening remarks, the post breaks the 11 new principles into four subsections.
Quality, Safety, Security & Privacy:
Quality, Safety, Security & Privacy:
- We will enable all developers to access our app store as long as they meet reasonable and transparent standards for quality and safety.
- We will continue to protect the consumers and gamers who use our app store, ensuring that developers meet our standards for security.
- We will continue to respect the privacy of consumers in our app stores, giving them controls to manage their data and how it is used.
- We will hold our own apps to the same standards we hold competing apps.
- We will not use any non-public information or data from our app store to compete with developers' apps.
- We will treat apps equally in our app store without unreasonable preferencing or ranking of our apps or our business partners' apps over others.
- We will be transparent about rules for promotion and marketing in our app store and apply these consistently and objectively.
- We will not require developers in our app store to use our payment system to process in-app payments.
- We will not require developers in our app store to provide more favorable terms in our app store than in other app stores.
- We will not disadvantage developers if they choose to use a payment processing system other than ours or if they offer different terms and conditions in other app stores.
- We will not prevent developers from communicating directly with their customers through their apps for legitimate business purposes, such as pricing terms and product or service offerings.
the_FUTURE
Superstar
COD seemed like a given but I actually thought Overwatch 2 would be exclusive. It's all good tho. those titles all being gamepass day 1s are still blessed.
Hood Critic
The Power Circle
Who wants to tell him?
On PCs people prefer Steam or Epic hell Microsoft conceded as much and put their games on Steam. Windows Mobile is dead. I'm a user of Windows and I hardly ever use their app store. I just download and run programs.
“Prefer” doesn’t mean it’s not used. And obviously the changes are there to make the store more desiarable for everyone involved.
and again this is for their store across all devices.
Not sure why you are stuck on rehashing the Microsoft store vs Steam fight. It’s totally irrelevant to my post and Microsoft’s announcement today.
Statement still leaves a lot of wiggle room. I’m sure they will leverage the IP for some kind of exclusive content.
Well Microsoft isn't really competing with any of those companies. Apple is mostly mobile hardware and services tied to that hardware. Facebook and Google are advertising companies.
Microsoft is gaming, PCs, productivity software, and cloud computing. There's some overlap in places like Google also does cloud and Apple has some gaming but they're all mostly chasing different fields.
They clash in places because Microsoft wants to do business with Apple customers in their ecosystem and Apple is a bully monopoly but that's not really a rival to Microsoft. Apple's whole shyt flows out of the iPhone.