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[Bernardougf]

Moblie gaming continues to be the worst thing that ever happened to this industry.

The thing is that it is a completely different audience

My son for instance, he wont put the phone down to play ps5 never.. maybe one fifa match here and there.. but in general he and his friends stay the whole fcking day on their phones ... and his ps4 pro collects dust as my ps5 would if i didnt play it ..

And my daughter coudnt give two shits about video games in general

 

[splattered]

The thing is that it is a completely different audience

My son for instance, he wont put the phone down to play ps5 never.. maybe one fifa match here and there.. but in general he and his friends stay the whole fcking day on their phones ... and his ps4 pro collects dust as my ps5 would if i didnt play it ..

And my daughter coudnt give two shits about video games in general

My two older kids are 17 and 11, both play a LOT of console games (as much as they can squeeze in around school and chores though playtime is fairly restricted regardless), and both play a little bit of phone games. The 17 year old admittedly does spend a lot of time on his phone but it's more youtube crap than games.

 

[Topher]

Watch MS have a showcase of mostly single player games while Sony had mostly GaaS. Fucking world flips lol. (Probably the game trash GaaS though)


Unfortunately big SP games have big start and gone besides forum chatter. These companies are trying to maximize every $ they can and GaaS seems to be the way

And that's fine too. Let's say Sony does largely vacate the single player space for the greater riches of Gaas. The demand for single player games isn't going anywhere. The folks who bought millions and millions of copies of God of War, TLOU and Spider-man are still here. That just gives an opportunity for other game companies to come in and fill that space. To be clear, I don't believe Sony will do that completely, but their own investment numbers show more going to Gaas than single player by 2025. Would not be surprised to see even less in subsequent years.

And all of this, is why I'm against all this consolidation. Does anyone really want Jim Ryan running Square Enix or Capcom and do the same shit over there? Not me. Consolidate companies and you consolidate visions. It might take a few years, but eventually it happens. Just look at what happened to Blizzard.

 

[Iced Arcade]

Trying to do my part. My 3 year old played street fighter 2 and turtles in time all weekend at our camper while it rained.

 

[Topher]

Trying to do my part. My 3 year old played street fighter 2 and turtles in time all weekend at our camper while it rained.

Ah man. She is adorable.

 

[Iced Arcade]

Ah man. She is adorable.

Training the newborn just started

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Training the newborn just started

Trying to do my part. My 3 year old played street fighter 2 and turtles in time all weekend at our camper while it rained.

How it started with my son and I on Nintendo when he was born in 1989 and we still game together to this day and occasional with my 80+ year old father who was taking me to play games on main frame computers back in the early 1970s

 

[DeepEnigma]

I'm desensitised to this shit. Looks like your average modern day GAAS or Ubisoft game.

And that's what they wanted from all of us. They knew psychologically they only had to play the long game with the initial angry pushback, that us dinosaurs would be extinct as this is normalized to the youth and beyond.

We seen internal leaks/docs years and years ago from EA to Activision talking about the death by 1,000 cuts approach and it's worth it for them to take the initial bad press in the short term, that over time it would all go away and become the norm for the long term.

And it all started with Horse Armor™. Something we knew would become the norm because even then you had defenders of it, and the most loyal of fans at the time were Bethesda junkies, so it was the perfect game and company to introduce that into the console space with a predisposition defense force. No matter how shit the practice.

 

[Bernoulli]

Trying to do my part. My 3 year old played street fighter 2 and turtles in time all weekend at our camper while it rained.

without looking at the description i tought this was a pic of you in the 90s
what camera are you using?

 

[Bernoulli]

Watch MS have a showcase of mostly single player games while Sony had mostly GaaS. Fucking world flips lol. (Probably the game trash GaaS though)


Unfortunately big SP games have big start and gone besides forum chatter. These companies are trying to maximize every $ they can and GaaS seems to be the way

microsoft will push more gaas because they need them for gamepass
sad where the industry is going

 

[Topher]

How it started with my son and I on Nintendo when he was born in 1989 and we still game together to this day and occasional with my 80+ year old father who was taking me to play games on main frame computers back in the early 1970s

Ah shit......now you are bringing back some memories. I used to take summer courses at Huntington College when I was a young teen to log on to the mainframes and play Star Trek.

The graphics!

 

[Iced Arcade]

without looking at the description i tought this was a pic of you in the 90s
what camera are you using?

Pixel 6. But the pictures are just screenshots of a video.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

Ah shit......now you are bringing back some memories. I used to take summer courses at Huntington College when I was a young teen to log on to the mainframes and play Star Trek.

The graphics!

That large E meaning shields were up, played that a ton as well along with Hunt the Wumpus

 

[nikolino840]

Nvm

 

[DeepEnigma]

Nvm

But this isn't?

Fish.gif

Edit: damn it, you edited your post.

 

[nikolino840]

But this isn't?

Edit: damn it, you edited your post.

Yeah but from the guy of windows central

 

[DeepEnigma]

Yeah but from the guy of windows central

He's a giant manbaby tool, yes. Keep his hypocrisy on display, I say!

 

[Astray]

Lmfao Florian continuing to be in mode.

At this point his antics and the entertainment he brings me make this deal worth it whether it passes or not.

 

[Bernoulli]

Pixel 6. But the pictures are just screenshots of a video.

that's one of the few phones that is great for taking pics of kids at home, all the other phones i tried come so blurry but pixel is top

 

[Bernoulli]

Lmfao Florian continuing to be in mode.

At this point his antics and the entertainment he brings me make this deal worth it whether it passes or not.

no way you are watching that, i never saw him speak is there a replay?

 

[nikolino840]

 

[DeepEnigma]

Yet, not this?

Fish.gif

I wonder why that is?

 

[cireza]

Sounds like this guy could be sacrificed to justify a change of decision while controlling damage from spreading.

This is only an observation, I don't care about the deal succeeding or not.

 

[Sleepwalker]

Im sure the CMA will respond to fanmail in no time.

 

[jm89]

Cute. Heres a lawyer who posts on era debunking this "concern"

I’m losing the will on this stuff - just when I thought the conspiracy talk was simmering, it bubbles up again.

Raftery isn’t, as you mention, on the enquiry group, nor is he seemingly the Senior Director assigned to this merger - there’s two Senior Directors of Mergers at the CMA, him and Sorcha O’Carroll and O’Carroll is the one overseeing this merger (most likely for the precise reason that, tenuous as it may be, Raftery has been an associate of a law firm that represents an interested third party in this particular merger). Both then report to the ED of the Mergers/Markets Division.

 

[Astray]

no way you are watching that, i never saw him speak is there a replay?

I didn't watch him live, but the growing exasperation from his fellow teammates is great

 

[feynoob]

Cute. Heres a lawyer who posts on era debunking this "concern"

Glad Idas doesnt take shit from these people.

 

[jm89]

Glad Idas doesnt take shit from these people.

It was by the user called pixis a uk M&A lawyer

 

[Bernoulli]

I didn't watch him live, but the growing exasperation from his fellow teammates is great

tom warren being reasonnable for once

 

[MasterCornholio]

Cute. Heres a lawyer who posts on era debunking this "concern"

Thank you

Seems like the CMA made the right decision here.

there’s two Senior Directors of Mergers at the CMA, him and Sorcha O’Carroll and O’Carroll is the one overseeing this merger (most likely for the precise reason that, tenuous as it may be, Raftery has been an associate of a law firm that represents an interested third party in this particular merger).

 

[feynoob]

It was by the user called pixis a uk M&A lawyer

saw it now.
Wonder what idas is doing. He needs to clear this shit to these people.

 

[Bernoulli]

Cute. Heres a lawyer who posts on era debunking this "concern"

where is this from?

 

[feynoob]

where is this from?

re

 

[sainraja]

Watch MS have a showcase of mostly single player games while Sony had mostly GaaS. Fucking world flips lol. (Probably the game trash GaaS though)


Unfortunately big SP games have big start and gone besides forum chatter. These companies are trying to maximize every $ they can and GaaS seems to be the way

Yeah, I think they will have that easily covered with Hellblade and Starfield.

As for the Sony showcase, I guess I am an outlier; I am not as upset with it lol.

 

[Bernoulli]

The new buzzword and narrative is corruption
Pressure didn't last long

 

[DeepEnigma]

The new buzzword and narrative is corruption
Pressure didn't last long

Even though the EU is being the most shady of the bunch. With both their reasoning and lack of explanation as to why they agreed with the CMA, but chose differently with a nothing burger of an explanation saying a whole lot of nothing. When we all know it's because they sacrifice consumers and small companies just to "tax the rich" ones in the long game.

 

[GHG]

Why the fuck should the CMA listen to some American twat fanboy?

 

[MasterCornholio]

Why the fuck should the CMA listen to some American twat fanboy?

Kind of like that random guy that was begging the CAT to fix this.

 

[Dick Jones]

Should it not be sent to the CAT

 

[Dick Jones]

Kind of like that random guy that was begging the CAT to fix this.

Jim Ryan showing CAT games last night as a FU to Xbox/ABK

 

[Ogbert]

This thread is amazing. It’s pure, concentrated console warfare.

I love it.

 

[Dick Jones]

Im sure the CMA will respond to fanmail in no time.

Dear CMA, I wrote you but you still ain't callin'
I left my cell, my pager and my home phone at the bottom
I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got em
There probably was a problem at the post office or something

 

[DeepEnigma]

This thread is amazing. It’s pure, concentrated console warfare.

I love it.

90% of it are these supposed middle aged professionals on Twittard.

 

[MasterCornholio]

This thread is amazing. It’s pure, concentrated console warfare.

I love it.

I'm just trying to separate the facts from the insanity here.

Realistically though Microsoft has to have a successful appeal and then the CMA needs to accept their concessions. Of course they still need to extend the current agreement with ABK to go through the process.

No crazy Microsoft eliminating the UK from their business or anything similar.

 

[Bernoulli]

re

Can't find it, posted by who?

 

[Goalus]

Cute. Heres a lawyer who posts on era debunking this "concern"

"a lawyer who posts on era"

 

[Sleepwalker]

Dear CMA, I wrote you but you still ain't callin'
I left my cell, my pager and my home phone at the bottom
I sent two letters back in autumn, you must not've got em
There probably was a problem at the post office or something

Sometimes I scribble addresses too sloppy when I jot 'em
But anyways; fuck it, what's been up? Man, how's your daughter?
My console's pregnant, too, I'm bout to be a father
If I have a daughter, guess what I'mma call her?
I'mma name her Bonnie (Ross)

I read about your Uncle Sony, too, I'm sorry
I had Xbox kill himself over a bad showcase no one wanted
I know you probably hear this every day, but I'm your biggest fan
I even got the underground shit that you did with Nvidia-Arm
I got a room full of your tweets and your docs, man
I like the shit you did with Giphy, too, that shit was phat
Anyways, I hope you get this, man, hit me back
Just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan
This is Foss

Dear CMA, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have a chance
I ain't mad - I just think it's fucked up you don't answer fans
If you didn't wanna talk to me outside the Appeal
You didn't have to, but you could've signed some remedies for Phil
That's my little brother man, he's only six years old
We waited in the blistering cold for you
For four hours and you just said, "No"

 

[Bernoulli]

Nothing to see here folks

 

[MasterCornholio]

"a lawyer who posts on era"

Is it wrong?

I haven't done the research myself which is why I'm asking.

Edit: I did find this about her.

Sorcha O’Carroll is a Senior Director - Mergers at UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) since April 2022. Before that, she has worked as a Director of Mergers at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for 3 years. Between the years 2011 and 2019, Sorcha was a Senior Associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Since 2007 for 4 years, she has occupied the post of an Associate at McMillan. Finally, between the years 2005 and 2006, Sorcha O’Carroll was a Law Clerk at the Federal Court of Canada.

And him.

Colin Raftery is the Senior Director of Mergers at the Competition and Markets Authority, where he leads the work of the CMA’s mergers group. Prior to joining the CMA, Mr Raftery advised on all aspects of EU and UK competition law at law firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels and Washington DC. Colin Raftery holds an undergraduate degree in law from the University of Edinburgh and postgraduate degrees in law from the College of Europe, Bruges, and the University of Chicago.

More stuff I found.

Microsoft / Activision deal could lead to competition concerns

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is concerned that Microsoft’s anticipated purchase of Activision Blizzard could substantially lessen competition in gaming consoles, multi-game subscription services, and cloud gaming services (game streaming).

www.gov.uk

Spoiler: Sorchas Comments

Sorcha O’Carroll, Senior Director of Mergers at the CMA, said:

Following our Phase 1 investigation, we are concerned that Microsoft could use its control over popular games like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft post-merger to harm rivals, including recent and future rivals in multi-game subscription services and cloud gaming.
If our current concerns are not addressed, we plan to explore this deal in an in-depth Phase 2 investigation to reach a decision that works in the interests of UK gamers and businesses.

Sounds like Florian got the wrong person here.

I'm no lawyer but I found this quite easily. Unless I'm interpreting it wrong that is.

 

[feynoob]

Can't find it, posted by who?

Pixis​

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