Microsoft rumoured to purchase Obsidian Entertainment

[flashfire926]

Chazore said:

flashfire926 said:
Except if Microsoft were the rich lazy spoiled kid, they would be creating new studios, not buying me up. Creating a studio gobbles up way more money, so Microsoft are being sensible in what they're doing.

If both the developer and publisher agrees to the deal, and thinks it's the best way to go for them, than who are us to bash any of them?

Also how is it a bad thing if there are multiple competing storefronts on PC, where apeveryone benefits from the competition? I'm puzzled at people wanting a full steam monopoly.

By that warped logic, any studio, any medium that has someone creating a new studio or IP would be called "stupid" for not being like MS. That way of thinking is already warped and stupid beyond words.

Who are you to bash against those who differ from your way of thinking?.

"multiple competing storefronts on PC", oh my that is truly adorable, truly it is that you think that. "everyone benefits from competition", except not everyone does, and competition only works when people actually bother to compete and compete big time, not small time, big.

I'm puzzled at people wanting an MS monopoly or defending them to the literal death, seriously. You guys who defend them care not for the features Steam has, care not for mmod support and as such, yes I will deem you as a threat to an already open platform. If you never cared for any of those features or the modding community, you could have simply said nothing, but instead your lot mutter "mods don't matter, neither do features my favourite company doesn't use". You then want that pushed onto eevryone else and you guys hardly see how annoying ansd childish that comes off as.

I will say this now, because it's been building up for months if not years. If you do not care for mdoding, kindly close the mouth and zip it. If you never cared for it, there is no need to say "it doesn't matter", because you have no bet in that race if you were neverr invested in it in the first place. If the competition is using modding tools and supporting the mod scene then they get the kudos, but when the competition ignores what the other is doing, then you either argue against them to have them take on said features, or you simply zip the mouth.

I want mod support to be a feature supported by the competition and for the users to pick and choose from. Those that want ti ignore it can do so very easily like others have done so for the past few decades. The competition doesn't want modding, because they believe it's something that either has to be controlled, made profitable or something to do away with. Again, diligaf on the "I don't care about mods", I do and the sodding competition is doing diddley fucking squat about it and some of you have the abasolute balls to get on Steam for supporting something some of you give little to no shit about.

Seriously, nothing annoys me more than people spouting shit like "uhh I don't want X company having a monopoly, I want a walled garden to control it all". What you think is good for me is actually really, really fucking shit and I will loathe you for it, I seriously will. Wanting mod support for all, even for the competition is not a bad thing, it's an optional resource to make use of that can benefit both parties. If you think it is something that needs to be controlled, I'll have to ask you to take your greedy little exec hat off and to get out.

Defend them to literal death? What?  Never did I once say I want Microsoft monopoly. Buying and owning Obsidian will not suddenly give Microsoft a majority market share, ffs. And I bash Microsoft where I see fit. You're freaking out over essentially nothing. "greedy exec hat?" I'm not the one acting like I've been paid by Valve here. 

And please stop with these false accusations please.  Please stop putting words in my mouth. I don't want a walled garden, I want competition. Quite the opposite. Don't know how those two get together. 

And I'm not bashing the way other think. Not once. I'm only perplexed by people's odd line of thinking, that's all.

And when did the argument become about mods?