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[Gone]

Worst decision for anyone except Sony shareholders.

 

[Rien]

It will be dead by now.
CMA block means EU block, which will cause other regulators to block it.

The deal is officially dead.

Good! I already hoped this would blow up in MS face and happy it looks like it does.

 

[Draugoth]

Poll on REE made last night:

95% caught with their pants down

I love how these people live in a bubble

 

[systemr123]

Seems we have to pay for Diablo 4 now, well, the PS5 version it’ll be for me then. Was hoping to get it for “free” with Gamepass later on.

 

[quest]

What does any of this have to do with Sony getting away with their bullshit. Please explain me what bullshit you are talking about except for the attempts to block this deal for maybe valid reasons like other companies did as well?

Using their market share to content starve Microsoft with cheap money hats. Cma decided that no one can compete with Sony and its aggressive content starving. People can cry about Microsoft to but tomb raider was the last major studio money hat from Microsoft. Sony is looking at 4-5 this year alone. Can't compete when one side pays 5 times as much to keep content.

 

[drganon]

Pretty sure I remember the sole reason was to "can't wait to see the meltdown. It will be glorious". I think those posts didn't aged well.

All those guys being real quite right now.

 

[Slothbeing1209]

Poll on REE made last night:

95% caught with their pants down

Seriously I only asked in this thread:" is this xbox OT" and got banned from the thread.
I saw some guys even said things like "fuck Sony", "Sony is evil" ,.. and have no trouble at all lol.

 

[Bragr]

According to them it will.

As I said, because they are out of touch, read their statement, it's completely ridiculous.

This argument is not gonna hold for long. It's nonsense. Microsoft is 100% gonna beat this by altering the deal a bit.

 

[Thirty7ven]

How are Activision games not going to Gamepass a 'win' for people? Are you dense?

MS can still pay AB to put games on Gamepass. You’re the one whose sense of you don’t understand that. MS’s objective of owning the biggest IPs in gaming is bad for the industry.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

 

[MisterXDTV]

Using their market share to content starve Microsoft with cheap money hats. Cma decided that no one can compete with Sony and its aggressive content starving. People can cry about Microsoft to but tomb raider was the last major studio money hat from Microsoft. Sony is looking at 4-5 this year alone. Can't compete when one side pays 5 times as much to keep content.

Are you kidding me?

Sony as a company is a midget compared to Microsoft....

LOL

 

[jm89]

I love how these people live in a bubble

Lol they seriously thought it was going without remedies?

That's what happens when you live in an echo chamber i guess.

 

[Draugoth]

MS official response

 

[MistBreeze]

Microsoft can do way more better than this

If they care about gaming they can make big blockbuster AAA games with this money

They can set a new standard in gaming and technology

Sony spent 200m $ in gow ragnarok alone

But who am I kidding, Microsoft does not care anymore

They want to buy the industry just to win by brute force

It is sad really

 

[Superbean]

Can I casually point to MS actually lowering quality of cloud gaming while using Linux vs Windows? Changing the browsers id to that of Windows fixed it instantly, took them months to fix it once it went main stream. So I won't doubt for one second they would offer inferior versions of games on other platforms.

 

[Fake]

MS official response

bitbydeath

 

[zomboden]

Cloud gaming as worked out real well for google and amazon.

Cloud gaming is the future. It makes complete sense.

Ah, so this is why people make their post history hidden.

Shame on you for attempting to gain marketshare in the future that is cloud gaming, Google & Amazon.

I'm sure you'll be on Sony's cloud based handheld the day it launches.

 

[El Pistolero]

Poll on REE made last night:

95% caught with their pants down

It's baffling to me: That forum is 99.9% leftist-leaning, except when it comes to MS, a mega-corp, buying out the video-games market. I honestly don't understand...Fanboyism trumps economic/social/societal ideologies, it seems.

 

[ByWatterson]

Sad day for freedom of private people and businesses.

Absolutely.

Who now will defend the trillion-dollar corporations with a history of anti-trust behavior? Today they're going after Microsoft, but tomorrow? None of us are safe.

 

[Mung]

How are Activision games not going to Gamepass a 'win' for people? Are you dense?

Taking a very large number games off other platforms is obviously not a win for gamers, a HUGE number of which do not want gamepass. And MS could pay to put these games on gamepass anyway.

 

[DForce]

How are Activision games not going to Gamepass a 'win' for people? Are you dense?

It's a win for Xbox and PC gamers.

However, it would be a huge loss for PS gamers, which makes up a large portion of the sales.

Call of Duty was the only title that was going to remain on PlayStation (according to Microsoft) but they were going to likely lose everything else.

Microsoft and PC gamers lose nothing other than a discounted price.

 

[rabbity-thing]

As someone who cares very little about Activision content but, in general, thinks these large mergers are bad for consumers and the free market, the block is an absolute good.

 

[systemr123]

Using their market share to content starve Microsoft with cheap money hats. Cma decided that no one can compete with Sony and its aggressive content starving. People can cry about Microsoft to but tomb raider was the last major studio money hat from Microsoft. Sony is looking at 4-5 this year alone. Can't compete when one side pays 5 times as much to keep content.

Its called business, has nothing to do with using their market share. Sony sometimes does some moneyhats to keep games exclusive on their platform for e.g. 6 months or a year. After that its freely available everywhere. That’s something completely different I’d say than buying up complete publishers with studios and then make everything exclusive for their own console, forever.

Also, can’t imagine MS not being able to compete with that content offering. They just wanted to buy Activision for 70 billion dollars. They have money a plenty but just invest it completely wrong. If MS wants to they can always offer more money than Sony on anything, the company sizes are nowhere near the same size and value on the markets.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Ah, so this is why people make their post history hidden.

Shame on you for attempting to gain marketshare in the future that is cloud gaming, Google & Amazon.

I'm sure you'll be on Sony's cloud based handheld the day it launches.

Feel free to continue to go through my post history. I've always clowned on cloud gaming no matter who promotes it. You'll recover from this.

 

[onnextflix5]

Cma think cloud gaming is important or it will ever be lol, couldn’t ms not simply sate they no Longer want anything to do with cloud gaming, or are they as deluded as the cma

 

[FrankWza]

Suddenly everyone worries about the cloud. When not a single person could careless about it 1 hour ago. I've got 1,000 mb's fiber internet which is 5x faster than the average US connection and I also do not have a data cap. Which a lot of people have. And when I stream a 4k video game at 60 fps when lots of things happen on the screen it pixalates. And I still have high latency and packet loss. Good luck with the cloud future. It's going to be an eternity before people will have internet connections worthy of seamless 4k 60/120 video game streaming. Imagine how strong the hardware is going to be by then. No chance that Internet gets better faster than hardware. Overall it's a dumb decision. I don't think cloud gaming is the future. Nobody wants to play a soft video that pixelates, has input delay, etc. When they can play natively.

You're looking at it as a short window. That's why Msoft attempted the 10 year extension. A decade is a drop in the bucket when all roads were going to be funneled into gamepass. Bad for competition indefinitely

 

[feynoob]

All those guys being real quite right now.

I wonder how SenjutsuSage feels now.
He had a lot of money on activitision stock.

 

[BigbyTheSheriff]

Just buy CMA now, Microsoft.

 

[bitbydeath]

bitbydeath

Added to OP.

 

[DonJorginho]

I'm on no side here as someone who plays on both platforms, but it is hilarious seeing how all the Xbox Console Warriors were gloating childishly only to be left with their pants down.

 

[The Alien]

Hmmmm. Wonder what they gonna do with that $69B now. Probably gonna be less popular than ABK acquisition. Time will tell.

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

The meltdowns on Reee and Twitter are glorious

 

[feynoob]

Cma think cloud gaming is important or it will ever be lol, couldn’t ms not simply sate they no Longer want anything to do with cloud gaming, or are they as deluded as the cma

Cloud gaming is important, in a sense that you can large pool of users who won't have have to buy the next Gen console. Because you can simply upgrade your cloud gaming relatively cheap.

Plus this entry is expensive and it's not cheap. So imagine MS with activitision and Bethesda content.

CMA is right on this case. MS will have advantage over others.

 

[ByWatterson]

How are Activision games not going to Gamepass a 'win' for people? Are you dense?

What is stopping Activision games from going into Gamepass?

 

[Ar¢tos]

Yet Sony can go on studio spending sprees

Imagine comparing buying the biggest publisher, owner of several studios and IPs and employing thousands of people with buying a couple of studios not even reaching 500 people and owning almost no IPs (or none!)...

I'm sure if MS wants to buy smaller independent studios nobody will stop them.

 

[Stare-Bear]

 

[shaddam]

Dude has me blocked and I've never interacted with him

Same. I think we are following "wrong" people on twitter or liked a "wrong" tweet and he nuked it.Little baby

 

[BeardGawd]

The CMA basically already had their minds made up but were just looking for the best reason to use.

MS doesn't even offer a standalone Cloud gaming product which makes the decision even more ridiculous.

 

[GHG]

Seriously, people don’t understand just how shitty Microsoft is.

 

[Solidus_T]

Good! MS has enough studios.

 

[Shi11]

This isn't a win for the consumer

 

[kyussman]

Poll on REE made last night:

95% caught with their pants down

95% of people on Resetera don't know what a woman is......how would they be able to predict the outcome of a complicated business aquisition,lol.

 

[ArcaneNLSC]

Well I didn't expect this, but I doubt Microsoft will give up on this. Lawyers will be feasting though.

Microsoft about to spend $69 Billion in legal fees


But honestly good result/decision by the CMA

 

[drganon]

I wonder how SenjutsuSage feels now.
He had a lot of money on activitision stock.

Monopoly money doesn't count.

 

[zomboden]

You're looking at it as a short window. That's why Msoft attempted the 10 year extension. A decade is a drop in the bucket when all roads were going to be funneled into gamepass. Bad for competition indefinitely

Without a doubt I think they would have stripped the games from PlayStation after 10 years. But I'll say what I've said before. PlayStation has such strong mindshare that Microsoft could make every single Activision Blizzard game Xbox/PC only and they still wouldn't sell more consoles than them as it stands right now. So where's the path forward for Microsoft? If they spend another 2 years wasting resources on this losing acquisition and then 1 year or 2 years later decide to make new studios. How long til those new studios bare fruit and start releasing games? 2 console generations from now? Give me a break. Nobody is sticking around that long.

 

[Rien]

Next thing I hope to fail is all the takeovers from last years. Not because I would like to see people out of a job but because I enjoy to see Xbox struggle at this point.
Empty promises for years, big mouth, buying your way to the top and still fail.

Yes, I am a sad wanker and I enjoy it.

 

[BiohazardX95]

Bad news after Bad news for Xbox, but knowing them Even if they don't Buy activision they Will likely pay them for having everything exclusive in Revenge to Sony.

 

[begotten]

So I actually don't give a shit about this and only pretend to so I can stir people on here - but does this "Cloud Gaming" reason mean it's more to do with Google, NVIDIA and potentially Netflix & Apple soon in that space compared to Sony?

 

[killatopak]

Holy shit…

More ammo for the people in opposition I guess.

I‘ll stay away from this one as this thread will soon be infested with insults and aggression.

Jim Ryan can’t keep getting away with this.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Yeah unfortunately. And even if it did come to game pass I still probably would have bought the Ultimate Edition for the 4 days early access anyways. 4 days is a long time during a games launch.

Ultimate Edition paid for as I was just waiting to see what happened here

Bring on the server stress test next month I need more of a fix