Why Do People View the MS Acquisition of ABK as a "Good Thing?"

[Shatts]

The Fury said:

Shatts said:

Honestly it sucks, especially since there's probably more acquisition coming from these big corporation to gobble up smaller ones. Tencent already does it, Saudi Arabia is investing left and right, Sony is probably going to push harder and obviously other big ones like Google, Amazon, Netflix, etc. If Activision Blizzard is accepted, then everything will be because Activision Blizzard was the biggest third party out there. Which essentially means company with more money gets to be at the top of the industry. The one positive tho is that Microsoft was the one that got it, not some random Chinese company or corporation that have no gaming knowledge.

Considering all Sony has done is buy studios it already had close ties with of which all, seemingly to me, was mostly out of fear MS would buy them instead (outside of Bungie and a PC converstion specialist), I doubt it we'll see the big guns buy much more after this. MS won't be able to ever buy another publisher because that would be too much control and I'd hope regulators actually keep and eye on what smaller studios they do buy too but we will see.

On the latter, Apple and Google would have been options but there is the risk of them taking the games and putting certain ones on their mobile devices only but this wouldn't have affected console and PCs as both would have been stupid to give up that revenue. Amazon have nothing in the gaming world so

I hope you're right but I doubt it. 10 years. In 10 years I predict the landscape would be completely different. I don't see many companies giving in to acquisitions now, but with the surge in production cost and risk, I have a feeling some of them would eventually accept the offer. There's already lots of studios that did, and examples like big Football clubs owned by oil money.