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Microsoft / Activision Deal Approval Watch |OT| (MS/ABK close)

Do you believe the deal will be approved?


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Sad. Gaming used to be this:

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Now it’s this:

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This is unironically the best descriptor of the modern state of vidya I've ever seen
 

bender

What time is it?
That was such a joke comment by Phil... That his career moment would be getting to use other divisions resources and money way beyond what his division can even dream of to just acquire Nintendo or whatever else. Not to release back to back GOTY or the highest metacritic or critcially acclaimed game or most played game... NO... Not that... but what company he can acquire. Should tell everyone all they need to know about Phil and MS
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quest

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Well, as of now this isn't true. One could assume of what may happen, of course.
They can't yet. I guarantee there will be xbox exclusive skins and probably gamepass skins. The question is will they hoard extra modes like Sony has recently.
Not sure why anyone would complain about the 2018 purchases. Outside playground who was already second party all were in rough shape financially. Obsidian was relegated to AA games. Brian Fargo was ready to retire because he was sick of spending all his time fund raising and not being creative. Undead labs was basically a second party studio who needed money to improve technology and move to AAA. Double fine almost went bankrupt during physco naughts 2 development. Complution was a complete fixer upper.
 
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PaintTinJr

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Thoughts on it now?
50% the last sentence, which I was expecting. The CMA claiming the false victory, and 50% the inquiry group feeling like they've got backed into a corner and need further ammo to get to move to a phase 2. The latter of which(feedback) was something I said I wasn't going to send.

I haven't sent any feedback throughout the process, yet, but it is clear that after this acquisition CoD games will all be transposed to Windows native APIs at the expense of the games' current Android, iOS, MacOS, PlayStationOS NintendoOS, SteamOS and WindowOS agnostic position. A position that has allowed Activision to remain agile to market changes and actually bring games to more players, ironically. And although the move to DirectX/Windows threading, etc, etc might seems like a mere detail of the acquisition, this is actually both Microsoft's and Nvidia's prize: Microsoft get to convert their AAA PC gaming OS monopoly to nascent cloud gaming, because anyone wanting to carry those games for the next 10-15years with release and feature parity, never mind the cost that will be asked for a linux version, will need a Windows OS license and be at the update cadence mercy of Microsoft, something that Nvidia won't, because they implement DirectX for Microsoft, and by extension will have less driver problems because of it and will naturally win out a massive market share for their GPUs in cloud gaming servers that run Windows.

The idea that the pathetic non-structural baby sitting remedies will stop a nearly $3trillion and £1trillion company working hand in glove to corner the cloud gaming market while leveraging CoD as a must have piece of content to compete is highly unlikely, and on that basis I am currently thinking of writing something to that effect in hope that when they investigate for a phase 2

With Intel having brought additional competition to the GPU market, the ability for everyone else - that isn't Microsoft or Nvidia - to independently compete in Cloud gaming - free of Microsoft licensing deals - with any choice of hardware using open source open standard APIs should be at it most competitive, currently, and yet in the next few weeks, the nascent market will be wrapped up from other gate keeping trillion dollar companies and market leading console and hybrid consoles, and market leading PC AAA game stores, never mind any other would be new entrants.
 
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havoc00

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Then your missing out. Because GP isn't a part of a lot of things.

There i proved you wrong. Now say your sorry.

Or else i will paint you with blue stuff.
I think i bought 2 games in the last year everything else I’ve played has been from gp or stuff i had in my backlog from my one x
 

Varteras

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The good guys have won !

Doesn't the psychology of evil tell us that everyone thinks they're the good guys? Even when they're huge douches?

Except for me. I'd molest a man just to hurt his feelings. Evil isn't someone else's label. It's my goal.
 
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