Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard may go ahead in the United States, as Judge Corley sees no danger of harming competition. Microsoft will be ab...

Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard may go ahead in the United States, as Judge Corley sees no danger of harming competition.

  • DupsEnglish
    528·
    1 year ago

    Holy shit that sucks. Good thing the Indi-games scene is doing so well. I don’t really need the AAA publishers anymore.

    • LordOfTheChia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      The good that can come from this (imo) is that unlike Activision, Microsoft discounts their games on Steam according to their age while Activision (historically) has been very stingy on sales of old Call of Duty games.

      To my knowledge, there are zero Blizzard games on Steam. Microsoft has been open to putting new games on Steam (starting with the Halo: Master Chief Collection).

      So if MS follows it’s current practices with Activision/Blizzard games, it could be a good thing for gamers.

      • FrankFrankson@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        In the short term maybe but in the long term it’s just another corporation getting even bigger and swallowing up smaller corporations which doesn’t work out well for consumers.

    • Sheltac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I’m a bit fed up with cookie cutter design-by-committee experiences anyway. I hate how they skirt around anything meaningful for absolute fear of ever offending anyone in the slightest.