Where do you stand on Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard?

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SvennoJ said:

ConservagameR said:

Where do you stand on Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard?

The OP must have meant to include Sony and Nin in the title, I guess?

XB Series S sales mean nothing since they wouldn't have sold the same if launched today.

XB 360 RROD means nothing since they would have designed and manufactured it differently today.

In the end, they don't really matter, they only happened because of the time they happened, apparently.

Don't forget to include Sony and Nin in this as well. Can't leave them out since we're wiping the slate clean.

Feel free to disagree. All the consensus here is getting boring.

There's a lot of hypocrisy in the console wars. When 'your' side does crappy stuff on their platform, it's all fine, just business. Or never as bad as a competing business. You can never discuss MS, Sony or Nintendo alone, and if that's not enough, drag Google Amazon and Apple into it as well.

Microsoft still does it with the way they tie Edge further and further into the Windows OS and forcing people to use over encompassing MS accounts to use Windows and their games.

Edge integration into Windows is no different then Safari within Mac OS, neither browser can just be taken out of the OS because of the integration and backend services each rely on.  The thing is, neither OS require you to actually use those browsers so you really cannot say they are strong arming you.  There is no doubt that every company that has an advantage within their section of business will continue to push for that advantage, that is what business do.  Its another thing to suggest they need to resort to sleazy tactics to accomplish the task.

As for an OS is concerned if you are looking to get away from a business leveraging their software on their platform, then only Linux fills that spot but even still you probably cannot get the paid distros as you then just move from one master to another.