Its good to know we are still living in the 90's early 2000's .

Teens, twenties, and superficial adults very much care about their image. “Xbox is gay” is something you can still hear in the high school walls. 

Come to think of it, that sounds like something a Call of Duty player might say online. Maybe this deal will work after all! 😄

Being against this merger because "big tech gets bigger" isn't a sufficient enough argument and it's not a good enough reason for this to be blocked by regulators.
How does this deal negatively effect consumers? I can give plenty of examples how this benefits consumers. There will be more choices of where and how to play these games with Game Pass and Xcloud. Nintendo will gets CoD, Steam gets CoD and more, Sony doesnt lose CoD.
This benefits the employees since MS is neutral about Unions and Unions supports this merger.
This deal is not anti competitive or makes this close to a monopoly like some claim. Basically, MS will get a piece of pie in the console, PC, and mobile markets, but no where does it give them a monopoly or make it anti competitive in any of those markets. Sony and Nintendo are still larger in the console space and I really don't see that changing much if this deal goes through. PC gaming is dominated by Steam and this doesn't change anything. Apple and Google have the mobile market to themselves. At least MS could make some moves to disrupt mobile.

I guess as an adult i never thought of school yard things like that in a long time, pretty much thought it died with Nintendo and Sega. However ive not once heard my kids or their friends saying xbox is gay. I guess them self implanted images of how a person would still like things to be stick with a person even into adult hood.

This reads like regurgitated PR. This isn’t necessary. You don’t work for Microsoft. More or less, what Microsoft is trying to do is dog shit… put the right PR on it and people will swallow up that dog shit and flap their lips about regulation bodies doing their jobs and regulating this kind of dog shit that Microsoft is slinging.

Ignore the PR and be honest about what this is: a big tech conglomerate swallowing up the largest third party company in the console gaming industry.

“Well, it’s not a monopoly” is a dog shit argument.

No one is saying Call of Duty shouldn’t be on Xcloud (or whatever service) and no one is saying Call of Duty shouldn’t be on Nintendo consoles—but Microsoft doesn’t need to literally swallow up the largest third party in the console gaming industry for any of that to happen. If you think this is such a good thing, why are you dancing around the issue with a motte and bailey argumentative fallacy? You can’t, because there isn’t a good argument for it.

I’m half cut and only half thinking in English, so my post reads way angrier than my intent :D
I actually don’t give much of a shit about Microsoft or Activision (I do kinda care about Blizzard, and I’ve considered buying an Xbox), somehow I got sucked into the argument a few days ago when I saw this zombified PR regurgitation and big tech apologetics by people on this forum, and decided “I’m going to take that bait and argue” because this is so fucking obvious. It’s unbelievable how many people are jumping through hoops to ignore the shit, and actually support this kind of predatory expansionism of big tech conglomerates.
Fucking Internet :D

Bottom line is we should he breaking up big tech conglomerates, not cheering their predatory expansionism. Running apologetics on behalf of their corporate PR team as they swallow more companies, increase their bulk, and allow these behemoths to even further dip their filthy fingernails into every pot of soup. Don’t choke down shit because it’s got a PR coating… It’s still shit you’re eating.

I think the main reason for that would be Sonys stance when it comes to supporting other consoles and PC. Most likely if Sony was the ones making this deal PC players would have to wait at least a year for releases and xbox could kiss their ass.

However if Sony gave the same deal they gave bungie that all their games would come to PC and xbox day and date with all the same features and nothing cut i dont think many pc players or Xbox players would have a problem with it. But we all know that would never happen.

However you would see many of the same Sony fans who are against this deal praising it and calling it good for the industry even if Sony did block all that content from PC and Xbox and Nintendo.

Its just like i said in another earlier some Sony fans are making a bigger deal of this and saying it doesnt compare to what Sony does with money hats for the simple reason being the price MS are paying. Yet to me Sony money hatting 4-6 AAA exclusives every single year does more damage then Ms buying a company who atm pretty much only release 3-4 games and only one of them release yearly. and when Ms have said they will keep that yearly released game on other platforms.

This reads like regurgitated PR. This isn’t necessary. You don’t work for Microsoft. More or less, what Microsoft is trying to do is dog shit… put the right PR on it and people will swallow up that dog shit and flap their lips about regulation bodies doing their jobs and regulating this kind of dog shit that Microsoft is slinging.

Ignore the PR and be honest about what this is: a big tech conglomerate swallowing up the largest third party company in the console gaming industry.

“Well, it’s not a monopoly” is a dog shit argument.

No one is saying Call of Duty shouldn’t be on Xcloud (or whatever service) and no one is saying Call of Duty shouldn’t be on Nintendo consoles—but Microsoft doesn’t need to literally swallow up the largest third party in the console gaming industry for any of that to happen. If you think this is such a good thing, why are you dancing around the issue with a motte and bailey argumentative fallacy? You can’t, because there isn’t a good argument for it.

I’m half cut and only half thinking in English, so my post reads way angrier than my intent :D
I actually don’t give much of a shit about Microsoft or Activision (I do kinda care about Blizzard, and I’ve considered buying an Xbox), somehow I got sucked into the argument a few days ago when I saw this zombified PR regurgitation and big tech apologetics by people on this forum, and decided “I’m going to take that bait and argue” because this is so fucking obvious. It’s unbelievable how many people are jumping through hoops to ignore the shit, and actually support this kind of predatory expansionism of big tech conglomerates.
Fucking Internet :D

Bottom line is we should he breaking up big tech conglomerates, not cheering their predatory expansionism. Running apologetics on behalf of their corporate PR team as they swallow more companies, increase their bulk, and allow these behemoths to even further dip their filthy fingernails into every pot of soup. Don’t choke down shit because it’s got a PR coating… It’s still shit you’re eating.