Microsoft rumoured to purchase Obsidian Entertainment

[Mnementh]

flashfire926 said:

Mnementh said:

That's funny. Obsidian released on nearly everything. Pillars II released on Windows, Mac and Linux and is available through Steam, GOG and physical media. It also is currently ported to all three current consoles. With Microsoft as owners that would probably reduce to Windows-release on PC, availability through the Windows store and Xbox as sole console version. So that is not increasing diversity, it is strengthening monopolies. To paint the reduction of platform- and distribution-options as a blow against monopoly is ... well very interesting at least.

What? Xbox and/or Windows Store doesn't have a monopoly to strengthen in the first place. This will lead to increasing competition against the monopoly, which is Steam. 

People seem to hate on every storefront that is not Steam (Origin, Uplay, Windows, etc). The recent announcement that Fallout 76 will only be available on Betheda's launcher got a hate not because the launcher is bad, but because it it wasnt on steam. I dont know what to say.

But you declare the reduction of different options as a blow against monopoly. That's not how things work.

And I personally don't care about Steam. I got Pillars as the Linux-version over GOG. No Steam-monopoly here. If Obsidian would release exclusively through Steam, you would've a point, so your argument falls flat. Because with MS as owner the games will lose alternatives to Steam.

EDIT: Well, at least likely. It might be MInecraft-situation, in which MS decides to still release the games on everything. I doubt it though.