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

[BraLoD]

EpicRandy said:

BraLoD said:

It's not because either MS of Sony are free to go and buy other companies (until eventually prevented by monopoly attempt) that it is good, and that is the point of the thread question.

In my view it is not a good thing, at all, and I don't want to see Sony going and make the situation even worse as a comeback.

IMO both should be striking to do better rather than trying to take out stuff from the other to look better.

Taking massively successful/famous third party studios under the onwership of a first party company is not good at all, IMO.

But then your position isn't on the ABK transaction and its impact on relevant markets but on a political position against the merger in general. It's a perfectly fine position, but you'd have to explain why should MS be the one entity to be reviewed under this different standard.

On the matter of whether MS will take away relevant ABK Ips, MS has more than enough done to ensure it was not the case, they never planned to make CoD exclusive even Jim Ryan never believe it was to be the case. So I think we can fairly put that concern to rest.

The scale of this buyout is completely unprecendent and involves the biggest multiplatform game franchise there is.

The only thing on par with that would be Nintendo or Sony buying Take Two and securing GTA franchise as their own, which would definitely also cause a major response as a result.

Even the smaller but still big buyouts like Bethesda or Bungie are nothing compared to what is happening now. Either way, that doesn't mean those are good either, just not as relevant as what is going on now.