Microsoft to buy Activision Blizzard for 69 billion $

[Dulfite]

PotentHerbs said:

Dulfite said:

How is it short sighted? They could make Gamepass $100 a month and I still would have saved money looking at what I've played on it and the value of those games over the past couple years. I fully expect them to raise the Gamepass price with this massive buyout and I'm fully okay with that. I'm saving money, especially when one considers the fact that purchased games are starting to go the route of $70 for AAA.

So you only account for the money you saved before Microsoft raises the monthly fee of GamePass? What happens when they raise the annual fee to $20 - $25, lock everything behind their subscription service with no option to purchase the games individually (like Microsoft Office), while the industry increasingly becomes fragmented? 

This could very well lead to Sony being increasingly more aggressive when it comes to acquisitions. Don't forget, Take Two recently bought Zynga, a mobile publisher that is more than half their market cap, with significantly less assets/cash on hand than Sony Corp. 

Read my post again about me still saving money if they raised monthly fees to $100.