Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for 69 billion $

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The Fury said:

the-pi-guy said:

I don't want Sony to acquire anyone, but from a market standpoint, if they want to compete, I think Sony should try getting Take Two. 

This is the same reaction each time. People just want companies to buy each other out. It's creating a horrible industry to be part of.

At one point people literally feared Disney buying the entire movie industry, they already won about a 3rd of it, why stop there? Is this what people really want with the gaming instrustry? An industry controlled by 3 companies, charging what they want, dictating how they milk you of your money?

I say Sony should do nothing. Keep doing what they are doing which is making good products and good games, just like Nintendo are. They don't need to make these purchases to prove themselves.

I remember way, way back when Disney almost had the whole movie industry, that said industry had to put a law in place to prevent Disney from owning everyone. That law has since eroded with time, but I hope to god ppl wake up an realise that MS and holdings companies are doomed to repeat that same scenario, and put the same kind of law in place.

Growing up, I really thought we would never enter that dystopian style future, where megacorps are the ones who own everything, and yet here we are, seeing massive signs of that becoming a reality. 

I give it another decade before we're left with just MS, Nintendo, a few Jap pubs, Tencent, EG, Embracer, Apple and Facebook. Some will think that's enough, but to me that's paltry compared to what we've had around before. 

Ubisoft's not doing so hot and neither are EA, so who knows how long until someone like MS buys either of those two next, could even be Tencent that buys them out for all we know, but that's not a good sign. 

Some folks here try to put a spin as if this insanely big fish is out to "help" everyone and make everyone and everything "flourish" and be a "better place", but that's just not how this world works, like at all. This industry has changed from being purely about passion projects, it's about money and war-chests and who has the most assets. 

It's not even remotely healthy to say this is great for everyone, because we saw how Disney went about it nearly 100 years ago, how we're seeing Disney doing it now, as well as other pubs and holdings companies. History will repeat itself, please stop enabling it and saying it's the correct course, because it ain't.