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

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BraLoD said:

One of the biggest companies buying another of the biggest companies is just bad until proven wrong, IMO.
It can end up being good, but this is business, neither MS, or Activision, or Sony, or anyone else care about doing things for it to end up good for the consumer, the very opposite, actually.
Always sad to see people applaud this, but oh well, now some other people will want Sony to go and buy Take Two or something... great...

That's exactly what prompted the FTC to challenge the case as much as they did and, they've been pretty much proven wrong in all their assessment. 

No actor is there for your benefit, on that we agree although no company can simply take consumer money for nothing so they are incentivized to provide a good value proposition at the very least and the more there is competition the more this becomes true.

Sony is free to try and buy whoever they want, that's the principle behind a free market. To prevent someone from exercising this right takes serious and compelling evidence of harm, not just an anti-big-tech sentiment.