I love Game Pass, but I don't like monopolies. I wish regulators had blocked this. Also: https://www.theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741
this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
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I was laughing at the onion article and stopped- was that really published in 1998 ?!?!? Or is the date also a joke?
It reads like it's from 98. The references to Blockbuster, Daimler-Chrysler, McDonnell Douglas, and Bill Clinton tipped me off this was an old one.
Wikipedia says that The Onion has had a website since '96, so it's definitely possible! (Also, TIL The Onion has existed since 1988.)
I knew the onion is old, but didn't imagine they would keep a website with old articles still up!
Why not? It costs nothing, appart from transforming the old format into something the current site can work with, or more likely, have the old site support tbe old format.
It really is that old. According to their Supreme Court amicus brief: “Rising from its humble beginnings as a print newspaper in 1756, The Onion now enjoys a daily readership of 4.3 trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history.” Seriously though, read that brief. It’s a masterful piece of satire.
The wayback machine has it archived as early as December 2017, no idea beyond that.
It's hard to block mergers based on a company involved being a monopoly if none of the companies involved are monopolies or will become monopolies.
Regulators have to come up with a different set of rules to block "large but not monopolistic mergers" without also just effectively protecting the actual leader in a given industry from competition.
How have I never read that? That's amazing.
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
Nice Doctor Who reference
YOU ARE AN ENEMY OF MICROSOFT; YOU MUST BE DESTROYED
Yes, embrace, extend and extinguish my breast milk drinking.
Fuck Activision
Especially Bobby and all the ones he enabled
Honestly this is bad for the gaming industry.
I understand a lot of game pass subscribers want more free stuff.
But just look at what Netflix had became after its success.
Or even just look at MS’s track record in using their monopolies to bully competitors.
Years later we will look at this and watch the tragedy unfold.
Pretty sure most of the abk staff were just keen to get rid of Bobby. Maybe shortsighted but hey, MS isn't the worst company to work for.
It's a shame the UK's Competitive Markets Authority let this merger go through after all. I can't wait for the future, when 90% of the most popular games are made by 3 companies
the government was desperate for a post brexit trade deal
Now gut the boys club C Suite from ABK and help the thousands of employees.
Kotick is out in January at the very least. I think there is a 60 day waiting period before employees can begin unionizing, as part of the deal.
That's the hope..
Bring back Heroes of the Storm and add Master Chief in damnit
Wait, they axed hots?
They showed Alex Mercer from Prototype in their announcement video
They knew
That's quite interesting, leaving aside all the monopoly arguments, I think this has potential to being very beneficial to all blizzard games, and so to us.
It looks like Kotick will be leaving after the transition so that's a great start. My dream is that this all somehow leads to the full Overwatch PvE campaign coming back onto the table again (given that their attempts to provide long-term replay ability without doing the work seem to be floundering now, there's a chance right?)
It'll definitely be interesting to see how MS treats Blizz's ongoing IPs. There's definitely opportunity to improve things there with Diablo 4 not keeping people's attention and OW2... being OW2.
It would be funny if they renamed Toys for Bob to Toys for Phil.
Lol
@KyuubiNoKitsune cool. Bobby firing when?
Apparently at the end of the year. Obviously going to get a good payout in the process..
@KyuubiNoKitsune as long as he's gone I'll take it
Same tbh
400 million payout as I understand it. And odds are very good he's going to go to some other video game company. People like him don't just disappear.
Apparently shitty CEOs make amazing bacon..
I saw someone mention somewhere that Unity has an open CEO position...
Who, the rapper?