The UK’s CMA has expressed concern that Microsoft‘s Activision merger could “significantly weaken” PlayStation (Updated with lawyer breakdown)

[The Mad Titan]

@5n0man so you had to leave the thread to find a post that's clearly a troll to post as proof.




Even though Spiderman a open world game already does all that on PlayStation as does ratchet and clank.


But you know maybe I was being serious.

 

[PS5 Pro]

Post some old ass tweets that have nothing to do with the topic at hand brehs.

@5n0man i told you microsoft contracts leaked a while ago

Thanks for the assist @CoolinInTheCut

These dudes do that all the time, post something completely irrelevant to the conversation, but its a deflection tactic
shyt, you might be talking to a bot my nikka. Cuz the way these dudes post is that predictable

I was wrong about Microsoft contracts not leaking



But

That contract looks exactly like sony’s, so obviously they are signing similar deals and have the same requirements as sony, but yall been running with this narrative that sony pays to make games on xbox worse for months.

Everybody is an expert right. And Gotham Knights which is day one in PS+LBGTQ
No way they'd be cool with that being noticeably inferior than its xbox counterpart. That would be devestating
And we all knew Gotham Knights would be 30 on consoles... they been showing the game off all this time and we knew that (or did we)

And while what the other guys said is nice, we can break it all the way down here

IGN on Parity, Read the whole thing bytches!!!

But here's one of the many juicy cliffnotes...

"If I license a property like Star Wars or Marvel Heroes or whatever, that licensor is going to have [sic] signoff on every licensed game," he said. "And they’re either going to have explicit parity clauses or they’re going to insist at signoff that if Platform A version is awesome but Platform B version sucks, either Platform B version doesn’t launch, *neither* version launches until they’re both approved, or they can just pull the license altogether."

If we know how this industry keeps us up to date on things like game development, then Gotham Knights all of a sudden being 30only is suuuuuspect but if this reality offends then should I cater to the fruit booty gamers of the coli or nah?

Nobody can deny the possibilities at play here

 

[5n0man]

@5n0man so you had to leave the thread to find a post that's clearly a troll to post as proof.




Even though Spiderman a open world game already does all that on PlayStation as does ratchet and clank.


But you know maybe I was being serious.

Funny how you're always just trolling whenever someone brings up your contradictions.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Funny how you're always just trolling whenever someone brings up your contradictions.

That's the whole point of trolling, to be contrary and sarcastic.

 

[5n0man]

But NONE of this has anything to do with what was leaked about Sonys contracts as it pertains to devs being forbidden from doing business with gamepass unless sony decides to let them. That’s a Sony exclusive

And the example yall are using is a document talking about the requirements for games on Sony's subscription services. But y'all are pretending like Sony makes devs sign that deal to release on playstation at all.


Microsoft more than likely has the same type of contracts when they pay devs to bring games to gamepass.





This is the document yall are basing these opinions on, and its strictly talking about demands Sony makes when they pay for games to appear on their subscription service.

 

[CoolinInTheCut]

That's the whole point of trolling, to be contrary and sarcastic.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

And the example yall are using is a document talking about the requirements for games on Sony's subscription services. But y'all are pretending like Sony makes devs sign that deal to release on playstation at all.


Microsoft more than likely has the same type of contracts when they pay devs to bring games to gamepass.





This is the document yall are basing these opinions on, and its strictly talking about demands Sony makes when they pay for games to appear on their subscription service.

No. This contract is for marketing rights,

They have to sign up for these terms in order to sign a marketing deal with sony.

Here’s another example

Microsoft Reveals Sony’s Activision Deal Is Blocking ‘Call Of Duty’ From Game Pass

While we may have all suspected this was probably the case, Microsoft, as part of its ongoing effort to get its acquisition of Activision Blizzard approved, has revealed that Sony has been blocking Call of Duty from coming to Game Pass, and may continue to block it even if the deal goes through.

www.forbes.com

i told you stuff came out from court

So wrong again you are.

Apparently you are the one just making stuff up like you accused of me.

 

[5n0man]

No. This contract is for marketing rights,

They have to sign up for these terms in order to sign a marketing deal with sony.

Here’s another example

Microsoft Reveals Sony’s Activision Deal Is Blocking ‘Call Of Duty’ From Game Pass

While we may have all suspected this was probably the case, Microsoft, as part of its ongoing effort to get its acquisition of Activision Blizzard approved, has revealed that Sony has been blocking Call of Duty from coming to Game Pass, and may continue to block it even if the deal goes through.

www.forbes.com

i told you stuff came out from court

So wrong again you are.

Apparently you are the one just making stuff up like you accused of me.

Sony is paying them for the marketing deal, they didn't have to take the shyt. Why the fukk would Sony pay them millions just so they can put the shyt up for free on gamepass???

Before activision sign that deal, they had a marketing deal with microsoft that gave Xbox timed exclusivity to DLC. But yall pretend like Sony is the only ones signing these types of deals.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare DLC still a timed Microsoft Xbox exclusive

www.destructoid.com

 

[Pressure]

whats the topic at hand now? yall just keep changing topics whenever you hit a road block lol

Good question. Is exclusivity deals standard fare for the gaming industry or is Microsoft up ending the gaming industry by making COD exclusive?

Stan babble got y'all arguing against the premise of the thread.

 

[daze23]

now everyone a free marketer, but at the same time praising regulators

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Sony is paying them for the marketing deal, they didn't have to take the shyt. Why the fukk would Sony pay them millions just so they can put the shyt up for free on gamepass???

Before activision sign that deal, they had a marketing deal with microsoft that gave Xbox timed exclusivity to DLC. But yall pretend like Sony is the only ones signing these types of deals.

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare DLC still a timed Microsoft Xbox exclusive

www.destructoid.com

Every post is a deflection to some new shyt. First I was lying, then they weren’t doing it. Then it was just for subscription services, now it’s “of course they would do this”

Y’all nikkas sound like trump supporters

Whole point is these are the types of deals microsoft was dealing with being behind in market share it was impossible to gain ground playing sonys game. So they started playing the game their own way.

 

[Diunx]

And yet Sony announced yet another console exclusive today

 

[5n0man]

Every post is a deflection to some new shyt. First I was lying, then they weren’t doing it. Then it was just for subscription services, now it’s “of course they would do this”

Y’all nikkas sound like trump supporters

Whole point is these are the types of deals microsoft was dealing with being behind in market share it was impossible to gain ground playing sonys game. So they started playing the game their own way.

You are disingenuous as fukk

Yall are in here saying shyt like this

It's legal, you can through your weight around like that when you dominate the market share like they do.

Either you do this or it doesn't release on or console, or you get no promotion or air time from us etc etc.

It's been a super common thing from Sony since last generation combined with timed exclusives and japanese support it's a miracle any games even make to exclusively to Xbox almost that ain't 1st party.

Saying that devs are forced to take these deals or they can't get a playstation release or they can't promote on playstation.

Yall cant name a single example of a game not getting a playstation release or not getting properly promoted if they didn't take a marketing deal from Sony.

Sony continually pays devs NOT to put content on xbox and forces devs to sign anti-competitive contracts in order to do business with them.

There are zero recent examples of microsoft doing the same. They shifted their strategy when they decided to expand their own studios.

Nobody forces devs to sign any anti competitive contract to do business with Sony. Devs are free to reject deals from Sony, pay for their own marketing, or sign a marketing deal from microsoft and Sony won't have their game removed from playstation or not have their game promoted in the playstation store.


You claim there are no examples of microsoft doing this, but when I post examples of microsoft doing just that, you call it a deflection.


You're the one acting like a fukking trump supporter, bringing up shyt Obama or Biden did but screaming deflection whenever someone brings up shyt trump did.

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

Keep believing in the lying white man brehs

Like yall believe lyin Jim Ryan

 

[MeachTheMonster]

You are disingenuous as fukk

Yall are in here saying shyt like this


Saying that devs are forced to take these deals or they can't get a playstation release or they can't promote on playstation.

Call me “Disingenuous” then quote what another dude said.

Talk to him about what he said not me

Yall cant name a single example of a game not getting a playstation release or not getting properly promoted if they didn't take a marketing deal from Sony.

fukk are you even talking about??

Reply to me breh. Reply to what i said

Nobody forces devs to sign any anti competitive contract to do business with Sony. Devs are free to reject deals from Sony, pay for their own marketing, or sign a marketing deal from microsoft and Sony won't have their game removed from playstation or not have their game promoted in the playstation store.

As the market leader sony has lots of influence on what deals get signed.

Publishers have to play to sonys terms cause that’s the only way they are gonna sell a lot of games.

Sure they have a “choice” just as Activision had a “choice” as to wether they wanted to be purchased or not.

You claim there are no examples of microsoft doing this, but when I post examples of microsoft doing just that, you call it a deflection.

You didn’t post any recent examples of microsoft Paying to keep content off playstation or PS+

You're the one acting like a fukking trump supporter, bringing up shyt Obama or Biden did but screaming deflection whenever someone brings up shyt trump did.

Nah mufukka we started here.

The only one telling stan fan fiction is you, none of this shyt is coming out because of the court cases, it leaked when Capcom got hacked. And microsoft's contracts with third parties hasn't been released publicly. You're just making shyt up.

With you claiming everything is said was a lie.

I’ve now proven everything i said and you keep pivoting to other stuff.

First you jumped to start talking about “performance party” clauses.

Then you baselessly claimed Microsoft paid sega not to upgrade the playstation version of persona. A game that originally released on PS3 and has had dozens of iterations, sega has had years to make a PS5 version, but yeah according to you they were forced not to make one cause of microsoft

Then you ran from that argument and said this.

And the example yall are using is a document talking about the requirements for games on Sony's subscription services. But y'all are pretending like Sony makes devs sign that deal to release on playstation at all.


Microsoft more than likely has the same type of contracts when they pay devs to bring games to gamepass.

Again baseless and incorrect, pulled out of your ass.

Now you wanna argue with me about some shyt a whole nother dude said.

Stop it man. You have been wrong af with everything you have said to me in this thread.

All to defend sony