A new report from has claimed that Microsoft is planning to close its proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard next week.

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    1 year ago

    Microsoft isn’t that bad compared to the rest of the industry.

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        1 year ago

        I mean the industry is already a cesspool. The consolidation is troubling from a failure of regulators. The games Industry deserves what it gets here though.

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      1 year ago

      Overall I don’t agree with that, but I do agree they’re better than ActiBlizz. You’d have to blast down into bedrock to get lower than Bobby Kotick

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      1 year ago

      Right now they aren’t. You do know how bad they became with their last monopoly, right?