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They want to monopolize the industry lol
I didn’t know they bought ActivisionBlizzard. Interesting.
Ninja? What company is that?
It seems popular storesfronts buying companies
Buy your special Dragonborn armour NFT for Skyrim, world of Warcraft, call of duty and halo.
Lot of Sony players suddenly became industry regulation experts lmao
I thought nintendo had licensing rights on kirby
I can hear this image.
Activision/Blizzard has no effect on me, but since the next elder scrolls and fallout will be Microsoft exclusives I will end up having to buy an Xbox for just those two games.
Edit: oh shit, I forgot about Diablo 4… Whenever the hell that comes out. So the blizzard one slightly effects me. I wonder if that’ll still be planned for PS5.
PC gamers: Oh no!
Anyway!
Better Microsoft than any Tencent.
The article says that even with this Microsoft is still only the third largest. And they are behind Sony. Wtf? How much does Sony own? Have they been acquiring all these companies and we were not even aware of it?
Wait Microsoft bought Minecraft?
Well the good news is all the games those studios make are gonna be on gamepass
Tiss a dark day
It’ll buy twitch just wait
(mixer flashbacks)
Why grow development studios when you can just buy the best ones?
As a positive: Activision Blizzard is liable to become a less actively shitty place to work, and they might start releasing things worth playing again.
This is probably not a good thing.
Microsoft out here playing 4D chess.
We’re getting close to there just being a straight up oligopoly on games. Each console already has a monopoly over their console.. the fight is now down to PC which is slowly thinning out. While Microsoft has so far been decent for gamers on their control, it only takes a single personnel change for that to rapidly change. Imagine if Phil got swapped out for Bobby.
To be fair Minecraft has been going from strength to strength with Microsoft Money and someone needed to stop the Skyrim 25 year anniversary edition.
All that Microsoft IP, and there was none that could replace a Nintendo IP?
In the future, you will have no choice.
If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em
buy a VR company and make a VR headset for the new Xbox’s please.
PSVR has been massively successful it’s a proven viable market.
(And of course I just want to drive interest in VR development)
Everyone talking about monopolies like “inventing games to play” could ever be a cornered market. It’s about owning IP.
Steam maybe had visions of this years ago and so started pushing Linux, but unless they do something like prevent Windows systems from downloading other market places I don’t see how this affects anything other than maybe getting laptops shipped with Tracer as the background
Eventually its only gonna be Microsoft and Disney
valve next?
Bro they ate the Disney of the gaming world
Hopefully not another Skype
If it means responsible, non-toxic management, unlike fucking activision blizzard, I’m all for it.
Didn’t Bethesda used to be a Microsoft product a long time ago? I thought it was for some reason
Nintendo fanboys triggered
Does this mean I can play as Thrall in the next smash brothers?
I’m not complaining. Call of Duty is going to be bearable again
Nintendo preparing to sue this meme…
LEAK CONFIRMED, MS TO BUY NINTENDO!
as far as i know studios bought by Microsoft are doing pretty fine, unlike some unfortunate one`s bought by EA.
I mean… can Microsoft do worse then normal activision?
I’m concerned but, I believe for now that Microsoft doing this is for the better. I mean they took double-fine and psychonauts 2 is one of my favorite games in recent history.
They just bought the most evil gaming company and the most pathetic one in the last decade.
Outstanding move