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My queen.
I was literally just thinking “Lina Khan, my queen” as the thread was loading. I am glad to be amongst kindred spirits.
Didn’t like a judge intervene to make this deal happen? Can we get that dumbass judge’s face plastered over this deal?
Headline makes her sound petty, when she’s actually the most important anti-monopoly figure of the past 40 years
I miss her 🥺
You miss her hilarious incompetence? Don’t Americans get enough of that with their President already?
Wdym? The regulators under Biden were pretty aggressive with antitrust investigations, which pissed off the right and oligarchs and decided to throw their support to have Trump return to deregulate.
Aggressive != being actually good at your job. She lost the MS case so badly it was straight up embarrassing for the FTC
I haven’t paid much attention to FTC prosecution under Biden, but I can see what you mean. Prosecutors tend to build up their cases however slow. Maybe she hadn’t done her due diligence on this regard.
In my opinion microsoft was always going to win, but I’m not a lawyer.
Oh thats right… I have to cancel my game pass
Did it yesterday. Feels good man.
The cost of ultimate over the course of a year can get you multiple games that’s you’ll actually finish as opposed to a library of titles you’ll just graze.
And a few years back you could get the same deal for half the price and in a few years it’s going to cost even more. You’re getting slow boiled because you’re thinking “I’m still getting a good deal”. You’re getting a good deal until you’re no longer getting a good deal and then what? Best case scenario you simply won’t have any of the games you paid to play. Worst case (if Game pass becomes successful enough) gaming is fucked because it’ll become streaming services 2.0 where you have to have 4 different subscriptions active just to play the games you want to play, and good luck trying to buy games when they’ve been priced into high heavens just to make the subscriptions seem reasonably priced (MS already tested that with Outer Worlds 2).
Doesn’t matter how good Game pass was or is, it’s a poisoned chalice and it will irreversibly fuck up gaming if people continue using it.
For me, I still have many many many many games from the past I didnt play, many of which can be acquired through the high seas completely guilt free. Not culpability free, mind you, because the law is a bitch, but its not like im going to be picking up a brand new copy of Diddy Kong Racing(N64) anywhere ever.
If I need a modern multiplayer game to play with friends and not be a complete loner, theres no shortage of free-to-play games.
Maybe for others but not for me. I forgot I had it for three months. Using it pretty much only for mineraft and expedition 33. Right now I’m playing alien isolation and mtga. I don’t play enough games
Also using it for minecraft, will just have to move over to an offline account. Oh well.
Forgot I’ve had it for a year but ended up buying expedition 33 on steam. I used the price hike as an excuse for cancelling it finally.
The sad thing is that nowhere near enough people will cancel their subs to offset the price increase.
I remember how much games media was hyped on the activision acquisition. It’s probably because Kotick and Blizzard execs are a bunch of bastards but that doesn’t make MS execs great. Just less shitty. Also had the feeling like games media at the time saw it as strengthening western games studio employment stability. Things have not gone as hoped for in the last few years
lmao on anyone that was dumb enough to think this was going to be a positive outcome
at least it was two shit AAA game companies and not another great indie dev getting absorbed
If a great indie dev gets absorbed then it will cease being great. Mergers by these souls corps are almost always bad for everyone except the execs and shareholders.
Well, they still drag around the name Blizzard despite buying it and beating it into a pulp. That still makes me salty everytime I see an article with Activision-Blizzard. Anyone who thinks they can buy reputation is a sociopath.
to be fair, the layoffs (could) have been done under Activision.
Implying that Microsoft wasn’t going to do any layoffs or raise game pass prices if the deal didn’t happen?
Implying that consolidation gives them much more leverage to do whatever they like with more detrimental outcomes for the industry and users.
Not really. Sub numbers have been falling for a while, game pass value has always been borderline for devs and value hasn’t been increasing that well for gamers. Game pass doesn’t give dlc access, it doesn’t give big enough incentives to buy on the Xbox store.
If they started doing exclusives I’d be a little concerned, but I’m sure they know that would just hurt their already bad numbers.
Right now Visa, Mastercard and Steam are the bigger problems right now. And Steam just because their bubble is popping, their lack of guards has started to be exploited, which is going to mean they’re going to be implementing changes that are bad for everyone, but necessary.
They do exclusive day one releases I believe. Or is it just that they are free on gamepass but cost money on other platforms? Im thinking of starfield possibly?
Microsoft sold the acquisition as good for consumers. Now they’re doubling the price of GamePass.
Cue Jack’s lack of surprise, or however the Fight Club meme goes.
Maybe the FTC should have tried something better than “But what about poor Sony??” as an argument against the acquisition, then.
