Activision is pissed off at the FTC and Sony, Activision COD developers are too angry thats scary

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Mummelmann said:

It benefits gamers that massive conglomerates absorb more and more studios and publishers? You can have any opinion you want, but to see this merger as beneficial to gamers and that it will increase competition is quite the stretch. Let's not forget what happened when Activision and Blizzard merged, it's not like it kickstarted a series of some of the biggest and worst douche moves against gamers and old fans that we ever saw. Blizzard's fall from grace literally ties directly into merging with Activision. In my ideal world, most developers would be independent, or at the very least have complete creative control without publisher meddling and top-down control with maximum profits on behalf of boards being the sole purpose of the industry. I don't want Sony to acquire more studios with the intent of shutting out other gamers on other platforms either.
As for exclusives, I find 3rd party exclusives to be more or less bullshit, keep it to the 2nd and 1st parties to supply platforms with exclusive content.

I'm also wondering how exactly Call of Duty "faces intense competition worldwide"? What other FPS franchise even comes close? CoD is the world's 3rd largest franchise in revenue, behind only Pokemon and Mario, it's also the 3rd best-selling franchise of all time, behind only Pokemon and Tetris. The closest FPS franchise in terms of revenue is Battlefield, way down at 41st place. Again, regardless of ones general opinion on this case, this is just plain BS. CoD has over 300 million more copies sold than the closest FPS competitor.

This might sound really weird, but in China no one plays CoD, everyone plays 吃鸡 Player Unknown Battlesgrounds. At least in China CoD has no foothold