aliadiere25
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Just curious how their brain works if I'm being honest.
Microsoft / Activision Deal Approval Watch |OT| (MS/ABK close)
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feynoob
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At least we play with style. It's why we are called the beautiful club.
Topher
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Vox Machina
Banned
feynoob
Banned
They spend way too much on that app. And info they get is from that app or people who they look up to like Colt Eastwood.
It's same for other fanbases. Much worse for football players.
feynoob
Banned
The art is simple.
Here is one for Xbox peeps.
adamsapple
Typically I go to bed around 11 every night, so I'm well-rested and energized for work the next day.
Last night, I got into bed at 11 as usual, but when I closed my eyes, I just couldn't fall asleep. My mind was racing. The Xbox Series X is not only the most powerful console ever created, but it has such an elegant design.
I tossed and turned in bed. I could not get comfortable. How could I expect to just drift off to sleep knowing that next November, just 11 months from now, gamers will get to experience true raw power, right from their living rooms?
I called up my girlfriend, who goes to bed at 8pm (as women do). "Hey babe," I said. I could hear her shifting from her sleep. "I can't sleep. I keep thinking of how powerful Microsoft's latest console, the Xbox Series X is. Never before has a home console been a 12 teraflop powerhouse before and contained 13GB of RAM."
"Babe," she said, "it's 11pm. I need my 16 hours of sleep so I can face a full day tomorrow of being indecisive about what I want to eat for every meal. Why are you so concerned with such raw power so late at night?"
I howled with disgust. "Woman, listen to me," I screamed into the phone. "It is not every day that such a powerful console comes out. There has never been a console with such speed, yet such elegance, and there never will be again, at least until Microsoft makes the next Xbox. If you cannot understand this situation then perhaps we should see other people."
With that, I hung up on my ex-girlfriend and chucked my iPhone across the room. It smashed against the wall and landed into a pile of my other broken iPhones. Now I am exhausted at work and the Xbox Series X is still the most powerful console on the market.
Banjo64
cumsessed
Yeah fam, no one calls you that.
feynoob
Banned
Sorry, I cant hear you very well. Speak loudly. We are not in the library.
Banjo64
cumsessed
I'd never go to the emirates, because London is a shit hole.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Sadly there are some users that bleed it into Gaf and try to push the disingenuously framed narrative from those shill tweets. Usually the avatar-less peeps. Especially when we have this thread here from the court case,
Ctrl+Alt+Deceive: All The Dirt, Info, Lies, and LOLs We Found During FTC vs. Microsoft
Here are all the dirt, information, lies, and LOLs we found during the FTC hearing case. Notes: That was a lot of work; I'd appreciate your support. Please keep it civil. This thread is very important because I wanted to compile all the information in one place for posterity and preservation...
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Putonahappyface
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Or the face of someone who has burnt out the motor on their magic wand, after a 48hr bender.
Topher
Identifies as young
Sounds like another 10 year deal to me.
Vox Machina
Banned
Nah, those are behavioral. Divestitures are structural.
Topher
Identifies as young
And this looks like a behavioral remedy to me. I'm betting MS is selling those rights for 10 years. CMA is bowing to pressure and going along.
feynoob
Banned
London is the pride of England.
Banjo64
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feynoob
Banned
That joke was too much.
Vox Machina
Banned
Doesn't really matter what it "feels" like though. What matters is what it is under the law. FTC tried regulating with "feels" and "vibes". Hasn't really worked out for them so far.
Topher
Identifies as young
Of course it matters what it "looks" like (I didn't say "feel"). CMA's integrity is already being questioned. And there is no law saying CMA cannot adopt behavioral remedies so I don't get your point. I didn't say this was illegal.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Your number 3 point is what's driving me crazy! And many in the videogame media are acting as if Xbox didn't win bids to make AAA games exclusive or timed exclusives too.
Vox Machina
Banned
Maybe for the purposes of forum discourse, but not according to the law.
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DeepEnigma
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It's all about shilling a PR message for the 2nd largest company in the world who's a victim, you see.
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
Yes according to the law too lmao
Topher
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Goes a bit further than "forum discourse" when Sarah Caldwell is being accused of bowing to pressure from Microsoft in interviews.
You keep referencing "the law" so if you have a law you want to cite to make some point then please do. I already said none of this was illegal so....
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
But why lie by omission something that's SOOOO obvious? Some of these Xbox deals also happened within the last 10-12 years. It's not like the truth is hard to fine.
Vox Machina
Banned
I think you may have got what I said backwards
Ass of Can Whooping
Member
Uh no the English was pretty straightforward
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Human nature when it comes to idol worship.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
But they did, they made a much bigger bid which Zenimax accepted.
The game in question, Call of Duty, is not being shut down from any platform for at least 10 years, a term that Sony has agreed to as well.
Sony aren't being singled out, previous documents have also mentioned Nintendo games as well, it's just part of the lawsuit and discovery. If Sony has similar litigation in the future for a big acquisition, I'm sure they'll be busting out documents with competing exclusivity deals as well.
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Varteras
Gold Member
Ah, London. The NYC of England. Center of the universe for those who live there. Cunts to everyone else.
Vox Machina
Banned
Right, right...
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
It's only okay when our favorite brand does it. Permanently.
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93xfan
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Sure, let's be disingenuous and pretend Sony making Street Fighter, multiple Final Fantasy games and Starfield exclusive was comparable to a year exclusive of Tomb Raider.
Glad MS stepped up and shut down that shit. A mess of Sony's own making. Had Sony not been so greedy, maybe you'd see Starfield and future Bethesda games on PlayStation.
HeisenbergFX4
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Topher
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MS hasn't really shut down anything. FF XVI is PS exclusive. We still see games going to Game Pass for a year and then coming to PS. And, of course, the Indiana Jones deal. It's the same shit it has always been. Sony does exclusives on a bigger scale because they can. Just like MS buys shit on a bigger scale....because they can.
It is really ridiculous for anyone to try and white knight either of these companies. The best you'll ever do is argue which company sucks less.
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HeisenbergFX4
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Zok310
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And like they wont win AAA bids going forward. Getting ABK wont Sony, Nin, and MS going after 3rd party exclusives.
Topher
Identifies as young
I liked this one too
lol....that realization on his face and then he starts lip syncing. Hilarious.
It will happen to gaming to its just tht streaming ain't tht good yet
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
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DForce
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Dead Rising 3 and Street Fighter 5 are both Capcom titles and they were both console exclusive titles.
Titanfall was Xbox exclusive and never came to PlayStation 4.
Having third party developers make exclusive games for a platform has been around before Sony entered the market. Xbox has been doing exclusive deals ever since the OG era.
Do you know they signed an 11 game exclusive deal with Sega? How about all the exclusives from Bioware? Tecmo for Dead or Alive 3?
You guys try so hard to make MS out to be the victim. You guys get your talking points from Xbox fans on twitter and come here with this nonsense.
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DeepEnigma
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And the people who flip/flop would deserve it. But most of us in the thread outside of some shill or warrior cultists have stood by our positions with consistency on M&A and not waivered.
I'm already saving meme templates for Sony's inevitable Square Enix acquisition.
So I've been wondering, does the CMA not get the same access to MS documents as the FTC seeing as it's a US company?
They dropped their SLC on consoles on a miscalculation that showed no incentive to remove COD but during the FTC hearing we had the Denali model documents and emails which was the acquisition model suggesting the incentive and likelihood was there. So why did the CMA rely on some incorrect shot in the dark calculations they made up? It was right there in the documents already done by MS themselves.
They dropped their SLC on consoles on a miscalculation that showed no incentive to remove COD but during the FTC hearing we had the Denali model documents and emails which was the acquisition model suggesting the incentive and likelihood was there. So why did the CMA rely on some incorrect shot in the dark calculations they made up? It was right there in the documents already done by MS themselves.
RickMasters
Member
yeah yeah...gif gaf.....I have those too.
So wait.......people have to be asked before responding?I dont who told you so, but thats not how it works on a forum, fella....you must be new, here.
Oh..and opinions are like assholes...everybody has one...and on a forum we are free to drop those opinions where we see fit. just a heads up on how forums work...I dont need...'permission'..... to reply to anybody. choose a better gif next time, seeing as you cant offer a proper response to anything
FrankWza
Member
Because they don't know how to react when they're stuck between a tourmaline and a hard place
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aliadiere25
Member
1. Microsoft simply could have matched Sony's bid or outbid them to make Starfield a timed exclusive, but they chose to buy them to make them exclusive, which is way worse.
2. And yes, they're only staying on PlayStation and going to Nintendo because it'll make them a lot of money. Yes, it would have made money on Game Pass, but it would have taken them far longer to cover the costs. It wouldn't surprise if they completely shut out Nintendo and Sony in 10 years' time.
3. Mostly all the people have been saying," oh, but Sony has been doing it for years so Microsoft had no option but to buy companies out so the horrible Sony can't make games exclusive." Yet, Sony has really only been renting these games out.... and those companies were happy to take Sony's money to make them timed exclusives. They could have said no, or the other gaming companies could have matched the bid or outbid Sony. Even the judge didn't seem to care when she made the comment about it being potentially bad for Sony. If it were the other round, this deal would have been blocked for Sony.
draliko
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I still don't get what's the fuss, it's always a game of 2, one want to sell one want to buy. Same for exclusives, Devs accepted Sony or ms money because they though it was enough, when Sony brought a studio the studio was happy to get the money, no one is being forced, the companies were willing to sell, the same when you go public, you know anyone can try an hostile takeover it's your duty to keep 50.1% ownership. In the end the market will balance or collapse and start anew. When someone get greedy someone else step up.
Varteras
Gold Member
Scale and impact are important.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
This is the BS I'm talking about fellas. This guy right here lying and acting as if the only game Xbox made exclusive or timed-exclusive was Tomb Raider. We ALL know that's a lie, so why act like this? I doubt Microsoft is paying you. If they were, I'd at least respect the hustle.
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