Microsoft has been a fucking blight on gaming. Paid online, and timed exclusives both started there. No resale if we didn’t throw a massive fit about it. Buying up studios to kill them. I mean Sony has their share of being fucks as well, but at least they’re making good games. Microsoft has barely any decent games the last 2 generations, and hellblade 2 which is looking great was a Sony game that they had to buy and make exclusive.
In a sane country there would be laws to prevent this monopoly shit.
In a sane country there would be laws to prevent this monopoly shit.
The problem is that Microsoft is no monopoly in gaming.
They have the money to basically buy any studio they want if they could, Nintendo and Sony included.
Their gaming division isn’t a monopoly, but with their parents funding yeah they could be and that’s the problem. They could buy everyone up and leave them selves alone in the market.
Their gaming division isn’t a monopoly, but with their parents funding yeah they could be and that’s the problem.
I agree it’s a problem but without Microsoft being a monopoly in gaming, no watchdog will do anything about it.
The FTC was trying to do something. Than Microsoft convinced them they weren’t going to do X if they sold Y, so they let the cloud gaming go, and then immediately did what they said they wouldn’t.
If they didn’t lie to the FTC they would have done something about it than and there.
It’s not a monopoly until it is, and that’s what they are trying to avoid, stuff getting to that point in the first place.
Are you referring to the ABK layoffs? Or something else here?
Yes, they let the cloud gaming go so the EU wouldn’t deem them a monopoly, they than told the FTC they weren’t going to lay anyone off. And a month later or so they laid off 2000 employees while using the excuse it was happening anyways regardless of the merger.
What other merger was there you could be confusing this with?
So you want to do something about it after they are a monopoly?
So you want to do something about it after they are a monopoly?
Me? Why me? You were talking about countries and I was explaining that countries don’t apply monopoly laws to non-monopolies.
Actually the laws are meant to apply BEFORE that happens.
What good is trying to stop a monopoly after it’s fully established? You need to deal with it when it starts, not when it’s done.
I feel quite certain that this was the plan all along.
Shit like this should cause the purchased entity to revert to prior ownership without refund to the purchaser.
Capture and kill…
The only thing better than owning the competition, is putting them out of business.
So they buy studios that compete, fire all the workers, keep the IPs, and call it a day.
If we enforced anti-monoply laws this wouldn’t be a thing. But monopolies dontate a lot of money to politicians so they say monopolies aren’t a big deal.
