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smroadkill15 on 31 December 2022
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Jumpin said:
smroadkill15 said:

Being against this merger because "big tech gets bigger" isn't a sufficient enough argument and it's not a good enough reason for this to be blocked by regulators.
How does this deal negatively effect consumers? I can give plenty of examples how this benefits consumers. There will be more choices of where and how to play these games with Game Pass and Xcloud. Nintendo will gets CoD, Steam gets CoD and more, Sony doesnt lose CoD.
This benefits the employees since MS is neutral about Unions and Unions supports this merger.
This deal is not anti competitive or makes this close to a monopoly like some claim. Basically, MS will get a piece of pie in the console, PC, and mobile markets, but no where does it give them a monopoly or make it anti competitive in any of those markets. Sony and Nintendo are still larger in the console space and I really don't see that changing much if this deal goes through. PC gaming is dominated by Steam and this doesn't change anything. Apple and Google have the mobile market to themselves. At least MS could make some moves to disrupt mobile.

This reads like regurgitated PR. This isn’t necessary. You don’t work for Microsoft. More or less, what Microsoft is trying to do is dog shit… put the right PR on it and people will swallow up that dog shit and flap their lips about regulation bodies doing their jobs and regulating this kind of dog shit that Microsoft is slinging.

Ignore the PR and be honest about what this is: a big tech conglomerate swallowing up the largest third party company in the console gaming industry.

“Well, it’s not a monopoly” is a dog shit argument.

No one is saying Call of Duty shouldn’t be on Xcloud (or whatever service) and no one is saying Call of Duty shouldn’t be on Nintendo consoles—but Microsoft doesn’t need to literally swallow up the largest third party in the console gaming industry for any of that to happen. If you think this is such a good thing, why are you dancing around the issue with a motte and bailey argumentative fallacy? You can’t, because there isn’t a good argument for it.

I’m half cut and only half thinking in English, so my post reads way angrier than my intent :D
I actually don’t give much of a shit about Microsoft or Activision (I do kinda care about Blizzard, and I’ve considered buying an Xbox), somehow I got sucked into the argument a few days ago when I saw this zombified PR regurgitation and big tech apologetics by people on this forum, and decided “I’m going to take that bait and argue” because this is so fucking obvious. It’s unbelievable how many people are jumping through hoops to ignore the shit, and actually support this kind of predatory expansionism of big tech conglomerates.
Fucking Internet :D

Bottom line is we should he breaking up big tech conglomerates, not cheering their predatory expansionism. Running apologetics on behalf of their corporate PR team as they swallow more companies, increase their bulk, and allow these behemoths to even further dip their filthy fingernails into every pot of soup. Don’t choke down shit because it’s got a PR coating… It’s still shit you’re eating.

At least I presented some reasons why the deal can be a good thing for consumers, employees, and the data shows this won't shift the market in any dramatic way in MS favor. Call it regurgitated talking points, but at least there is data and agreements in place to support it. You didn't even touch on the employee side of it. Let me guess? ABK will figure it out. Just like how they figured out how to support CoD on a Nintendo platform? You say MS shouldn't have to acquire ABK to get CoD on Nintendo, but can you say this for certain? ABK has failed to show otherwise, while MS has already promised for it to happen. 

MS didn't force this deal. ABK went to MS and said they were interested in selling. Its sounds to me, if MS wasn't interested then there was a very good chance someone else was.
I generally don't find video game mergers to be terribly concerning on the list of issues I should care about and do care about. At least with this deal, I will benefit directly and there is nothing that scream red flag with this merger. There are plenty of unknowns. But I'm not going to be for or against something based on unknowns.