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Ryuu96 on 21 February 2023
Hmm.
I'm not sure where to stand now, I was convinced it was dead but I think now I'm at about 30%, Lol. Still low but this is helpful.
All the benefits and supporters is just a lot to go against.
- Are you going to side with Sony or side with everyone else?
- Are you going to ignore the amount this helps versus doesn't?
Supporters
- Multiple Third Party Publishers in the Industry: EA, Take-Two, Tencent, etc.
- Microsoft's Main PC Storefront Rival: Valve.
- Microsoft's Main Cloud Gaming Rival: Nvidia.
- Multiple Unions Representing 20 Million+ Workers.
- The International Game Developers Association
Against
- Sony
- Google - Who Left the Industry.
Benefits
- Guaranteed access to CoD for the millions of Cloud users across GeForce Now and xCloud, a thing which they weren't receiving prior and were unlikely to receive from an independent Activision Blizzard, a potential boom to the growing Cloud market.
- Guaranteed access to CoD for the 100m+ Switch users, a thing which they weren't receiving prior to the agreement and were unlikely to receive from an independent Activision Blizzard.
- The opportunity for thousands of workers under Activision-Blizzard to unionise, a better workplace environment and being treated much better, although obviously Microsoft has its issues, every company does, they're still massively better than Activision.
- Parity for CoD on Xbox/PlayStation in terms of content.
Status Quo
- Sony can still get CoD for 10 years, minimum.
- Valve can still get CoD for 10 years, minimum.
I'm only focusing on CoD because that is literally all these regulators care about but if you look at the facts now, for at least 10 years, a huge amount more consumers will benefit than not by this deal passing.
Microsoft is turning it into an everyone vs Sony thing, Sony now looks like the problem to everyone else.
Still hard to say what CMA does with their infinite power, Lol.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 21 February 2023
