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chakkra 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.

Hmm.. let's see..

Option A: Pay $140 to play CoD and Diablo IV..

Option B: Pay $140 to play CoD, Diablo IV, Forza Motorsport, Age of Empires, RedFall, Ghostwire Tokyo, Hollow Knight, Atomic Heart, Stalker 2, Wo Long Fallen Dynasty, Starfield, Minecraft Legends, Age of Empires IV, MLB The Show 23, etc, etc, etc..

Yeah.. I think you're gonna need to give me a little bit more than just "we should be breaking up big tech conglomerates, not cheering their predatory expansionism".  Apparently their PR team has done way too good of a job to convince me that option B is better for me than option A.