"Activision purchase has ramped up scrutiny on Xbox"
Ding ding ding.
|OT| - Microsoft / Activision Deal Approval Watch |OT| (MS/ABK close)
The move was weird. I guess this means MS cracked down UK to their will. Wonder how @Banjo64 feels when he hears this news. Getting the milkshake ready for @Ass of Can Whoopingwww.neogaf.com
I knew that ABK deal was the death of xbox and the start of 3rd party publishing."Activision purchase has ramped up scrutiny on Xbox"
Ding ding ding.
|OT| - Microsoft / Activision Deal Approval Watch |OT| (MS/ABK close)
The move was weird. I guess this means MS cracked down UK to their will. Wonder how @Banjo64 feels when he hears this news. Getting the milkshake ready for @Ass of Can Whooping
The fight for CoD ended up killing Xbox, Phil Spencer finally did the thing
Money doesn't quite work that way. An acquisition is not just money leaving a bank account, since you end up with assets on your books.
"Guys...that game you praised us highly for, the one with extremely good reviews and accolades...can we make a sequel to that to solidify this as a franchise and build it up?"
SenjutsuSage is an absolutel piece of shit and a fucking idiot. Nothing better proves that humanity doesn't deserve to survive.okay but...
Its wild to me that they seemingly want to focus heavily on software and yet decide to close studios with big potential of creating high quality software.. They are putting way too much faith in COD in my opinion and trimming way too much. They should be growing studios. Xbox has so much potential it’s madness.
For sure. Zenimax/Bethesda definitely caused Shinji to leave, that stuff was in place years before MS scooped up Bethesda.
Presumably MS still owns the IP. Maybe see another study do a follow up in the future. I don't know, just hoping.
Every last one of you who cheered that acquisition and mocked anyone who said it was a bad idea. Do this right now. Stand in front of a mirror. Repeat this line, ten times: I am not a clown. I am the entire circus.
I'll say it again. Microsoft didn't buy them to win a console war for you. Maybe Xbox thought that's what it was. But not their masters. Activision was bought so Microsoft could keep a strong position in gaming after it kills Xbox.
You actually cheered for them to buy the gun they were going to use to off your favorite brand. Now thousands have lost their jobs, five studios were closed, consolidated, or left as shells before becoming independent, and more are on the way.
In no small part because of the biggest consolidation move in gaming history. Despite those of you who refused to see it that way, even with history telling us, in more ways than one, this was coming. The same group who mocked anyone telling you that Gamepass was a bad idea. That it couldn't be sustained without something being broken.
No. You couldn't have changed this, even if you wanted to. But, consider it a lesson you probably still won't learn. You weren't smarter than the ones you disregarded. As they say, time makes a fool of us all. That being said, everyone else needs to remember you as a lesson, too.
Everyone needs to remember this going forward. Consolidation is not for you. It's for the owners. If something is too good to be true, it probably is. When someone shows you who they are, stop letting them tell you otherwise.
Okay. Gonna hop down off my cringe as fuck soap box moment. Just gonna say I love ya'll. Enjoy your games. Don't be dicks.
We were told Gamespass was sustainable, and we were just concerned trolling.It's the most hilarious thing about all of this.
It's gone from an inordinate amount of obnoxious hyping and promotion of gamepass to now begging people to buy games instead of playing them via some subscription that can be had on the back of a doritos packet.
So it is now that I'll take the opportunity to find a cheap promo code for gamepass and play the game for "free!".
Best deal in gaming
Why bother? Those games take ten years to make, so you get ten huge studios working on a game each, like CoD, so you can release annually. You still don't see any new Fallout game for ten years, and you have bet a trillion dollars on a franchise due to an Amazon series being somewhat popular ten years ago.
Every last one of you who cheered that acquisition and mocked anyone who said it was a bad idea. Do this right now. Stand in front of a mirror. Repeat this line, ten times: I am not a clown. I am the entire circus.
I'll say it again. Microsoft didn't buy them to win a console war for you. Maybe Xbox thought that's what it was. But not their masters. Activision was bought so Microsoft could keep a strong position in gaming after it kills Xbox.
You actually cheered for them to buy the gun they were going to use to off your favorite brand. Now thousands have lost their jobs, five studios were closed, consolidated, or left as shells before becoming independent, and more are on the way.
In no small part because of the biggest consolidation move in gaming history. Despite those of you who refused to see it that way, even with history telling us, in more ways than one, this was coming. The same group who mocked anyone telling you that Gamepass was a bad idea. That it couldn't be sustained without something being broken.
No. You couldn't have changed this, even if you wanted to. But, consider it a lesson you probably still won't learn. You weren't smarter than the ones you disregarded. As they say, time makes a fool of us all. That being said, everyone else needs to remember you as a lesson, too.
Everyone needs to remember this going forward. Consolidation is not for you. It's for the owners. If something is too good to be true, it probably is. When someone shows you who they are, stop letting them tell you otherwise.
Okay. Gonna hop down off my cringe as fuck soap box moment. Just gonna say I love ya'll. Enjoy your games. Don't be dicks.
Trust me. I think the whole thing is going to end up as a legendary failure that will be taught in business classes, wrote about in novels, etc. I really don't see how any of this works for MS in the long run. They have alienated gamers, developers, Japan (
). It's an absolute shit show and hilarious but also sad because it's like a person being saved from drowning, they are dragging others down with them.
uh? Sony already filed for bankruptcy. did you forget?
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Someone needs to turn that into a meme. Insert Phil's face onto Bloody Mary or Candyman.
MS are a little bit different in that they are......checks notes..... the richest company in the world.
