narwhal to Gaming · 1 year agoMicrosoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzardwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square108fedilinkarrow-up1322arrow-down112cross-posted to: hackernews@derp.foodiablo@lemmy.worldgeforcenow@lemmy.worldhackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fansgaming@lemmy.worldgames@sh.itjust.workspcgaming@lemmy.worldgames@lemmy.worldgames@lemmy.world
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minus-squareDefacedlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down3·1 year agoProbably a fine that’s simply justified as “operating costs”. It’s actually kinda bullshit, they shouldn’t be allowed to buy up all the NA competition. Next is probably EA. Thankfully Sony saw this coming and started investing in new studios and IP.
minus-squareSatouKazuma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·1 year agoHow does one bring Teddy Roosevelt back from the grave? I’m uh…asking for a friend? Yeah. Let’s go with that.
minus-squareSolOrion@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoWe could generate infinite energy by harnessing the force of Teddy Roosevelt rolling in his grave rn.
minus-squareimaBEES@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoI’d be pretty surprised if MS is allowed to purchase another huge publisher. Zenimax was pretty small, but ABK is huge. But who knows at this point…
minus-squareSatouKazuma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoMSFT could purchase Congress itself and get away with it thanks to Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Probably a fine that’s simply justified as “operating costs”. It’s actually kinda bullshit, they shouldn’t be allowed to buy up all the NA competition. Next is probably EA. Thankfully Sony saw this coming and started investing in new studios and IP.
How does one bring Teddy Roosevelt back from the grave? I’m uh…asking for a friend? Yeah. Let’s go with that.
We could generate infinite energy by harnessing the force of Teddy Roosevelt rolling in his grave rn.
I’d be pretty surprised if MS is allowed to purchase another huge publisher. Zenimax was pretty small, but ABK is huge. But who knows at this point…
MSFT could purchase Congress itself and get away with it thanks to Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission