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VersusEvil said:

Give your ship 20k storage and you’ll be fine.

Bruh, wtf are you hoarding? Lmfao.

You really don't need more than 4,000 unless you're hoarding absolutely everything you can pick up.



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Wait, Microsoft isn't selling the Mobile cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft, only the Console and PC rights? Lol.



Don't need to store stuff when you can just carry 20k yourself and hope you never run into enemies and when you do chug the med packs lol



Ryuu96 said:

Smart business decision to get Gaiden on game pass, have access to Infinite Wealth.. 



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How long until MS can buy something else? Been so BORED with Activision.



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shikamaru317 said:

CMA gave the acquisition a preliminary approval. #ItsHappeningBoys

https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1705102046423130588?t=Uw6ibmGbTiOFZFImktBcag&s=19

b...b....bu..but MS is anticompetitive and monopolistic reeeeee

Trust me bro, my partisan-fueled utopic ruleset is way better than all those authorities' conclusions. And if you agree with those authorities instead of supporting my view, you're just "gaslighting, conflating, spinning, avoidance of any valid objections, and rephrasing of whatever being said just to bend the truth"

Lol



Ryuu96 said:
VersusEvil said:

Give your ship 20k storage and you’ll be fine.

Bruh, wtf are you hoarding? Lmfao.

You really don't need more than 4,000 unless you're hoarding absolutely everything you can pick up.

In Morrowind you could sell or drop quest items and never finish the quests since then I kept on collecting basically almost everything, 
In skyrim each chest was for a catgory   Weapons=>Apparel=>Ingredients=>Books=>Potions=>misc etc...
Fallout 4 made it worse because you could basically use every item but simply putting them in your unlimited workbench was fine
I have so much stuff in Starfield that when I go to my storage in the lodge it freezes around 3-5 seconds to load evertyhing I have.






My "only" frustration is that the EC deal was actually really strong, it was a win for consumers, it was a win for competition, both consumers and competition were largely in favour of the deal. The terms seemed fair and even though they only applied to the EU countries, Microsoft decided to apply them worldwide without any demand from the EC.

CMA and FTC could have took those concessions and enforced them (legally) worldwide, they could have took them a step further, but because the FTC is ran by politics and not interested in looking out for competition or consumers (unless it's Sony) and CMA's ego got ahead of them, they couldn't accept that the EC's concessions were really strong, they (CMA) had to get their "win" even after looking incompetent and clueless for the past year.

Now we end up in a situation where the rest of the world ends up with a worst deal than what the EC deal would have been had it applied worldwide and they could have done other things such as extend it to 15 years like the Ubisoft deal. The CMA could not accept that EC had a good deal (probably some sour UK vs EU grapes) and not only that, they couldn't just screw over the UK market, they had to insist they apply worldwide, Lol.

The EC was a free license for streaming providers and users who purchased an ABK title, for the next 10 years, for all current and future ABK titles in that period. Now thanks to the CMA, every cloud streaming service outside of the EU (or EEA) that had not already formed a deal with Microsoft will have to pay Ubisoft for those rights and users won't get a free streaming license either with their purchase. We've gone from "free" to "paid"

Anyone who had a license to play ABK titles would have been able to use that license on any streaming service.

Any BYOG streaming service (even ones which didn't exist yet) had the right to ABK content for free.

EU had expanded access to the content and expanded consumer rights. The CMA could have improved on it but instead opted to make things worst. They ensured the business model for Cloud streaming is the same as Consoles which is "pay us for this content, exclusivity is possible too, unless you're called Microsoft" while EC was enforcing a free license to anyone who asked for one, Ubisoft can now decide to not give the content to anyone

Or give the content to the highest bidder (except Microsoft).

And the UK acting like they're a global regulator and enforcing their decision on the world (except EU) is peak fucking UK arrogance. They forced their decision upon countries which had already approved the deal with no concessions needed. Now you can say the EU's concessions only applied to BYOG, which is fine to point out, but then the UK should have simply requested a remedy to expand that then to all streaming service types.

That would have been different from the EC remedies but still expanding on the EC remedies but the UK can't accept that the EU did a better job than them so we end up with a deal with gives the rest of the world a worst deal, Lol. Now the Cloud market has became the Console market, big companies muscling out new companies through exclusivity agreements or simply smaller companies not having the money.

And the CMA is such a mess with all their different teams making decisions, they blocked Activision-Blizzard for crystal ball predictions but instantly allowed Amazon to acquire iRobot which has tons of reasons to be worried and real marketplace consequences for the Smart Home today. Not to mention Amazon's already dominant position in that market.

RANT OVER. FUCK THE UK.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 22 September 2023

Angelus said:

Sarah has been cemented as the next head of MS Gaming for a long time tbh

Yeah it’s either between her or Matt. But I think Sarah is ahead rn if the decision was made today.