Microsoft rumoured to purchase Obsidian Entertainment

[flashfire926]

Chazore said:

flashfire926 said:

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?

No, but you imply it via defense, "the best offense is a good defense".

Mirror retorts do not work here either, so drop those now while you still can.

Why don't you first?, you talk big now because I'm onto you after you jumping before, so why don't you calm it first for a change? ("I'm not the one acting like I've been paid by Valve here").

If you want competition proper, then you'd want MS to take the pages from GoG and Steam, rather than "we don't need those pages because I don't care about them".

It's odd to you, but your's is also just as odd.

The argument became about mods because you went on cramming in that "competition makes everything rainbows" speech. Something with the actual competition ignores (Which Bethesda is actually picking up on, but wants to control it, which kills it's general appearance of "caring"to begin with). Competition works when the rest want to compete and when they actually tackle what the others have been putting out. I made a thread specifically talking about the clients that are currently out there and the lack of Driving competition needed for the rest of those clients to get on Steam's level of factual features, not some poppycock "paid by valve" "opinion", get off that high horse bullshit. When someone has a feature and the other does not, that becomes a fact, not a "shills" sodding opinion.

I want actual brutal competition, but so far that's not been happening on PC for years. Definitely not in the way that the client data shows.

I'm sorry for that, it was a distasteful comment on my part. I'm sorry.

Thanks for filling me on the situation of mods. I don't care for them but I fully well know that there are a lot who do care, I don't want corporations taking entire control of them. 

Although is Bethesda trying to get ALL mods to go through creation club? I always thought it was only for a select few mods, and the rest being free, making it harmless for the most part. 

Though I don't get how defending this acquisition makes me a ms "defend them to literal death". That would be ignoring when I heavily criticized MS for the launch of the X1, or for them making  Forza 5 a microtransaction-fest, or them forgetting past ip's like Project Gotham Racing and Banjo Kazooie.