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-squareSatouKazuma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·1 year agoSee, I agree with this angle, but at the same time it kind of feels like a Pyrrhic victory.
minus-squareTheGod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down7·1 year agoMicrosoft doesnt have a bad track record in gaming and doesn’t have greedy approaches. They like to dump money without forcing profits. It is a win for gamers
minus-squareSaneless@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down8·1 year agoEh, depending on where you’re at, not so much is lost
minus-squareCaptainEffort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down2·1 year agoFurther consolidation is a major loss
minus-squareSatouKazuma@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoThis, I’m not quite understanding. What do you mean?
minus-squareSaneless@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoSo far there’s nothing that says this is a loss for anyone other than Sony not able to do exclusive COD things or keep COD off Game pass
See, I agree with this angle, but at the same time it kind of feels like a Pyrrhic victory.
Microsoft doesnt have a bad track record in gaming and doesn’t have greedy approaches. They like to dump money without forcing profits. It is a win for gamers
Eh, depending on where you’re at, not so much is lost
Further consolidation is a major loss
Correct.
This, I’m not quite understanding. What do you mean?
So far there’s nothing that says this is a loss for anyone other than Sony not able to do exclusive COD things or keep COD off Game pass