Where do you stand on Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard?

[SvennoJ]

zero129 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.

Well when you are using pretty bad takes against one company while ignoring others clearly people are going to point out your bad takes and let you know how your fav company isnt much different.

SvennoJ said:

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.

Are you really agreeing with his bad takes here?.

Not 100% nor 0%. But it's impossible to discuss anything since fingers always start pointing in different directions. 
He's right this thread started about Microsoft, but everything gets countered with, but Sony, but Google, but Apple, that's in the past, and so on.

The idea that somehow MS having Acti/Blizz/King is somehow better instead of Sony, Google or Apple is not something I agree with nor really relevant to the question. Just a smokescreen to avoid talking about what the consequences can be.

I can see some parallels between GoG to how CP2077 ended up, and Gamepass and the Halo Infinite mess up. Now grow gamepass further and add a lot more IPs, yeah I'm slightly worried about this acquisition. Personally I don't have much stake in it anyway, Blizzard and Activision have been unwelcome in my house for a long time now. So imo, that 69 billion is better spend elsewhere! But for MS it's a good deal, lot of old stuff to throw on gamepass including new cash cows, while getting an inroad to mobile gaming to spread gamepass there.

Anyway you know how fond I am of subscriptions, mobile gaming and streaming, not at all. MS is heading away from my interests.