A stronger Federal Trade Commission could have saved the gaming industry.
How did this "harm gamers"
>>722465393Think of all the DEI hires, trannies, and biological women who will lose their jobs in the game industry!
>>722464590So... how did the buyout cause this?
>>722465556Killing competition. If you own the market you control prices. God you people are stupid.
>>722465662>if you own the marketbut they don't
>>722465393Prices going up? Are you retarded or just illiterate?
>>722465716They own Activision and kushner owns ea. That's basically the entire western AAA market.
>>722465752Prices of what? Rentals?The only thing hurting games is services like game pass being allowed to exist in the first place
>>722465716i love when bootchokers argue "they only have 77.9% marketshare!" its so funny
>>722465846so by your own admission they don't own the market
>>722465910but even with activision is nowhere near close to 50% much less 70
>>722465910damn 77.9% and not a single IP I give a shit about
>>722465857>As Microsoft slashes jobs and raises prices, former US Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan has taken to X to say that the company's actions since completing its acquisition of Activision Blizzard in 2023 is pretty much what the FTC warned would happen when it opposed the deal.>Khan, you may recall, was head of the FTC when it challenged Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard, a convoluted process that didn't formally end until May of 2025—almost two years after the deal closed.>"Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision has been followed by significant price hikes and layoffs, harming both gamers and developers," Khan wrote on X. "As we’ve seen across sectors, increasing market consolidation and increasing prices often go hand-in-hand.tldr acquisitions like this reduce competition and consolidates games to ownership to companies that want more profit paid off to their execs and shareholders. This comes at the expense of workers and consumers.
>>722464590Seeing that guy (diversity manager) bawling his eyes out because he allegedly got fired over his C Kirk comments at Microsoft was pretty funny. He didn't actually just put the pieces together that he got fired for being useless aspect to any business. He didn't realise that his job was bloat and could be cut at any moment in a restructuring.
>>722466106>copy pastes the articleStill waiting for you to explain how it hurts gamers because the part your pasted didn't
>>722466158>>increasing market consolidation and increasing prices often go hand-in-hand.>acquisitions like this reduce competition and consolidates games to ownership to companies that want more profit paid off to their execs and shareholders. This comes at the expense of workers and consumers.
>>722466106Microsoft needed exclusivity for CoD but they didn't get it
>>722465556It didn't, the FTC lady is just mad that she lost the court hearing because she let Sony build the case for her. The actual reason Xbox is going into decline (again) is because Microcock's HQ decided they wanted to be in charge of the gaming division now that it was doing good (again), and those retards fucked it all up by bringing over all of the dumb bullshit that Windows is plagued by (again).
>>722466239Nta but how?
>>722466239see >>722465857you're talking about rentals not games
>>722466276The FTC bitch is also a Biden NepoHire.
>>722466158Fuck off bill
>>722466276Microsoft has been in decline since the XBone. I wouldn't call the situation with the SeriesX/S any good since they weren't selling either
>>722465481>yeeeeeeeees goy, it's only the dangerhairs getting hitI hate you cunts so much
>>722466443>it's only the dangerhairs getting hitBut it is just them.
>>722466413Why can't you explain how the cost of a rental service increasing hurts gamers.If you were talking about the existence of this service in the first place or the erosion of ownership you might have a point
>>722466501>all Xbox owners and Microsoft employees are danger hairsWhat?
>>722466627He's talking about the lost jobsIn my own personal opinion, Gamepass customers deserve even worse than this
>>722466627>all Xbox ownersnot affected by this>and Microsoft employeesyou're right some are not dangerhairs but pajeets insteadlet me know when this start affecting humans
>>722465857>Prices of what? Rentals?Pathetic goal post shifting, even for /v/
>>722465393'harm' in the same sense one 'harms' shareholders by not maximizing profit. Though in this case one harms one by acting in the best interest of the other. They're harming gamers by raising prices on gamepass, closing studios and cancelling all but the most profitable upcoming games (that gamers would've wanted to play) and moving staff to lowest common slop-nominator games with heavy monetization schemes. Not 'harming' gamers in this case 'harms' shareholders, and to maximize shareholder value they should prioritize all those things.
>>722466730>goal post shiftingHow is goal post shifting if this was my point from the start.Morons paying X amount of currency to NOT OWN GAMES having to instead pay more than X doesn't hurt gamers.What hurts gamers is these services where you PAY TO NOT OWN GAMES existing in the first place.
Microsoft never even hid the long-term plan for GamePass was to jack up subscription prices while decreasing the value of the game offers. Microsoft's bet was that people would neglect to cancel the subscription service...MMORPGs made a lot of money off of that simple trick.as for firing slop devs, maybe the devs should make appealing games instead of flops? if you serve up a shit sandwich don't be surprised when nobody pays to eat it.
Maybe focusing on your case and not, "But it is not fair for sony" would have had different results, ms ftc.
>>722465981companies should be broken up at 10% market share except for natural monopolies which should be nationalized
>>722466106lol
>>722466239Xhe sounds like one of those fire and brimstone preachers who use natural disasters to push their narrative while giving esoteric gobbledygook explanations as to how point A leads to point B. Buying out companies like Spencer did is actually an insanely risky tacticband Microsoft is only in the position to do so because they can afford to LOSE money in doing so. The plan arguably failed because their console division is dead and Gamepass will soon die
>>722466858The fact the service is objectively worse because it costs more. That's it, it doesn't matter whether you own the games or not. You don't own your games on steam either but you would be just as retarded to say prices there going up 300% was not a bad thing for gamers. Get over your weird fixation and stop dodging the point.
>>722466931thank you for adding the bit about nationalizing at the end I would have taken you seriously otherwise
>>722466858Gamers don't rent? Gamers don't use gamepass?
>>722464590>>722465393>>722465481this is literally just a market correction. there are other industries that the FTC needs to rape and gape and trust bust, like the jewish landlord AI that price fixes rents. but EA and Microsoft Activision going under for making gay and shitty woke crap is just a market correction
>>722467012every serious country does it with natural monopolies because otherwise youre getting both an inferior product and consumer exploitation
>>722467004>You don't own your games on steam eitherYou own the licenses to those games on steam. When you stop paying steam doesn't take away all the games.The existence of rental service for games where people pay monthly and walk away with NOTHING afterwards is harmful for gamers the price increasing is, if anything, good because it means less people will use the service and the retards that continue to use will have less income to make retarded decisions elsewhere in their lives
>>722465910>>722465846>77.9% of the market sharewhere are the good games? they haven't put out a good game in a fucking decade>t. someone who owned an og xbox, a 360 and an xbox one but then switched to using steam
>>722467141>every serious country does itno
>>722466106they are fucking over the workers, but microsoft and bilzzard make such shitty games it doesn't affect consumers since it was just slop no one wanted.the single thing they did that was ok was $15 game pass and without it they just make trash
>>722467069>Gamers don't use gamepass?Correct. We call those "retards".
>>722467069>Gamers don't use gamepass?correct
>>722466129kek, I'll have to find that vid, that sounds funny as fuck
>>722467069>newfag discovers 4chanlol
>>722466239sure, if this was a real market that provided actual goods or services, but xbox and bliz just make trash. It's like how DC and marvel had a huge market share but they make fucking garbage so it doesn't matter, kids just read the japanese coloring books
>>722464590Let's just hope only straight white/asian males are affected by this #blm
>>722467243>>722467278Games are getting more expensive and shittier/made with less time and resources. It's all the connected.
>>722466443the male enablers are no better, maybe even worse honestly considering it's them that ultimately stuck the knife in the gaming community's back
>>722467004>service is bad>dont buy serviceIf I put up a lemonade stand and charge 20 bucks a glass does that mean I hurt all the lemonade enjoyers around the globe?
>>722467457Yeah cause inflation
>>722464590FTC was right. Microsoft sucking everything up put them in the position where there was no where left to expand because the problem was never that they didn't have talented devs, the problem is their management is retarded and thinks buying devs is the same as making good games.The FTC was 100% right and all of the people who were laughing at them for being "impotent" and "biden's little cuck" directly helped kill Microsoft and every single studio under their control.
>>722464590Man this would really suck if aaa studios made literally anything worth playing these days. Haven't the biggest hits of the year been silksong and undertale? If your billion dollar game studio acquisition led you getting your cheeks clapped by bug dark souls and gay goat tv simulator, then of what use what the billion dollar game dev studio acquisition?
>>722467761They had no case and the hearings were a waste of money.
>>722465393>How did this "harm gamers"Microsoft is fucking shuttering, what kind of question is that? Xbox as a brand and a studio is fucking done. With it is now every single developer they have ever bought who are now going to be shut down or starved of resources until everyone quits. Microsoft isn't going to spend money on what is objectively a failing enterprise, and if they were never allowed to Merge, this problem wouldn't eat half of the western industry.The problem with explaining this shit is that most people on 4chan are apparently 12 years old, and only view reality in the realm of "Who's owned" and "Who's not owned" as well as who's the cuck and who's the chad. They can't grasp that reality is nuanced and if you win in the short term you could screw yourself up in the very near term if the win in the short term was a retarded fucking decision. But that's okay because apparently all of Trumpo's cabinet are confused at the concept the same way. Hope those cartoon frogs and wojaks can rebuild your gaming industry.
>>722467926there will be a market correction, just like comics had a market correction
>>722467926>Microsoft is fucking shuttering, what kind of question is that? Xbox as a brand and a studio is fucking done.Yeah, what's the problem?
>>722467103>this is literally just a market correctionMarket correction shouldn't take out 2-3rds of any industry. This is a direct failing of the US Government and the Trump/Biden administration for not harshly punishing and dismantling monopolies for the last 15 years. If you "market correct" the majority of your entire industry out of a job because a monopoly suffered short-term losses, then that's not market correction, that's your government being owned by a monopoly and failing you as a customer and a citizen. And this is not the only industry like this.
>>722467926The smaller the gaming industry gets, the better. Nothing good has ever come of these bloated developers. Shut the fuck up, you grandstanding bitch faggot.>AND GOGGLE FRUMPF!!!!You're a parody.
>>722468049xD
>>722468021>>722468049read: >>722468090the "market correction" shit is just a meme. market correction would be if smaller players took over the power void microsoft left, this is 2008 level housing crash but to the gaming industry and all of the same problems that afflicted that also afflict this because nobody took the time to regulate or fix it and the one person who tried to was overruled. when most of your technical field is out of work, it's no longer your industry anymore. other countries are going to come and steal this market share if they haven't already.
>>722468152Seriously, what's the problem? Can you name anything good for the industry that came out of Microsoft?
>>722468090The markets correct as needed. The corrections are worse the longer they're held off by government intervention. The policies in the 1920s america made the crash that occurred later much worse than it needed to be for instance
>>722467676It's not just money printing, that's a factor, but there is also rapid consolidation and acquisition of competition and resources by the finance industry, like private equity, which needs to churn out profit to investors that don't care about the company or industry's longevity.
>>722468204Maybe 5% of the video games worth playing came out of America, I honestly do not give a fuck if the American vidya industry vaporizes. Maybe they should have made good games.
>>722468138>The smaller the gaming industry gets, the better. No it's not you fucking retard. You are exactly the kind of absolute fucking clown that would be hooping, hollaring, screaming, shidding, and posting wojaks if China came in and took this industry. You losing your industry is you losing your voice in what video games get popular. Remember all the screaming and shidding you did over this nobody chinese game coming and going with zero fanfare? I do. Expect more of that because your government has failed you.
>>722467926I don't want your woke games and industry. And yes, this can all be rebuilt but not with people like you around. You need to go.
>>722468321TRVTHNVKE
>>722464590Consolidation or bankruptcy. Everything you're seeing was inevitable anyway.
Banned? AM I banned?
>>722468338NTA but there's more to the industry than just that.
>>722468335>No it's not you fucking retard.Yes it is. Video games were better when the industry and customer base were smaller, that is a fact.>You are exactly the kind of absolute fucking clown that would be hooping, hollaring, screaming, shidding, and posting wojaks if China came in and took this industry. Not if China makes good games. >Remember all the screaming and shidding you did over this nobody chinese game coming and going with zero fanfare?Nope, you're thinking of your games urinalist discord server you share with Bethesda HR employees. Cry for me, bitch.
>>722468386Testing because Jannie didn't like that webm. It is video games just because you don't like it Jannies.
>>722467926https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSidWUW4H7c
>>722468321>>722468242>Maybe 5% of the video games worth playing came out of America,This is a direct CONSEQUENCE of Microsoft buying everything. Microsoft was once a market leader and was one of the big three, they're so fucking irrelevant now because they vacuumed up the industry and now you're left with nothing.If you told someone on /v/ in 2008 that not only would Microsoft have a console with no Halo but there would be no market desire for a Halo, they would call you fake, but also gay. >The markets correct as needed.You don't live in a free market though, you don't even live in a regulated market. This is just a monopoly with extra steps that should have been cracked down on 10 years ago.
>>722464590Both of these would have happened with or without the acquisition.
>>722468204>>722468090people need to live in houses and the 2008 financial crisis created huge insolvency problems for a lot of cooperations and lead to massive layoffs.the worst possible case for the US market is that some of the useless faggots who had jewish daycare make work jobs won't be able to get new jobs and some of the IPs from EA and microsoft/bliz will die off and anyone with any talent will just create or go to new vidya firms and make more and new vidya. Steam and other digital marketplaces have basically destroyed most barriers to entry into the market. vidya will be fine, hell, vidya will be better
>>722468379Hypothetical: Billionaires get heavily taxed, strong regulations on finance and profits. Now that there's no reason to be profitable to investors and no system of execs shittting up companies and taking a golden parachute payout on their way to the next company, profit staying with workers, creates more competition that balance value to the consumer and benefits for the worker against all the billions that would leave the company and go into the pockets of politicians to bribe government to reduce regulations.
>>722468580>This is a direct CONSEQUENCE of Microsoft buying everything.No, it's not. It's always been that way.>If you told someone on /v/ in 2008 that not only would Microsoft have a console with no Halo but there would be no market desire for a Halo, they would call you fake, but also gay.If you told someone on /v/ in 2008 you were playing Halo they'd call you an underaged faggot with no taste. I remember back then we dreaded the day you little mutt freaks grew up and would post here with nostalgia for Halo.
>>722468204>other countries are going to come and steal this market share if they haven't already.no one's going to buy indian games and fucking microsoft, blizard and EA haven't made any good games in over a decade.
>>722468338>I don't want your woke games and industry. Well too fucking bad, when you elected someone who handed the industry to Microsoft and didn't protest it when the FTC was calling foul on it, instead saying the FTC was "owned by the chuds", what the fuck did you think you were doing? Do you just not know who Microsoft is? >>722468463you should have been out on the streets, as well as anyone else who cares about video games, protesting this shit as the obvious power grab it was.
>>722468424The creative output vs audience demand mismatch for more than a decade is the main driving factor behind all of this. It even extends beyond gaming into tv, film, comics, etc. Adapt or leave. Stop getting in the way.
>>722468335>You losing your industry is you losing your voice in what video games get popular.bro, I just won't buy slop. just like I don't watch shitty movies and then I laugh when WBD and Disney go under
>>722466158It continues:>"As dominant firms become too-big-to-care, they can make things worse for their customers without having to worry about the consequences.">Well, when you're right, you're right, and it's hard to argue that Khan wasn't right on this one. The FTC filed a lawsuit to block the deal in 2022 over concerns that the impact of the proposed acquisition was "reasonably likely to substantially lessen competition and/or tend to create a monopoly in both well-developed and new, burgeoning markets" if it was allowed to go through.>Microsoft and Activision, of course, insisted otherwise: Bobby Kotick, then the CEO of Activision Blizzard, said in a July 2023 statement that the merger "will benefit consumers and workers," and also "enable competition rather than allow entrenched market leaders to continue to dominate our rapidly growing industry."
>>722467003Nah it was 5d chess. It made sony panic buy bungie and look how that went.
>>722468138>LEAVE THE HEKKIN POLITICIAN ALONE!!!migatards are hilarious
>>722468580no, it's a fucking consequence of blackrock and other DEI/ESG jews fucking up all the entertainment markets with sloppa no one wanted for the past decade plus
>>722468685>No, it's not. It's always been that way.No, objectively it's not. From a pure numbers standpoint: You don't get the games you want because there are no games coming out for these consoles or this company. Microsoft bought the western industry so they could sit on it until the whole thing collapses.
>>722464590Didn't harm me because Activision products were dogshit for dogshit peopleBlizzard was cuckfaggotryCoD is autoaim slop for pigsEverything was on my favor. If they did something good after the buyout it was cool, if they killed them it was good too.
>>722468764>bro, I just won't buy slop. Literally everything is going to be slop. Now what? You're going to spend the rest of your life playing 20 year old games? Cool, cool. Let me know when you'd like to have good games again. Because sooner than you think; it won't even be an option to play games without a smart phone.
>>722468837shalom>>722468854we don't get the games we want because fucking blackrock and other jewish investors have been forcing tranny shit into every game
OH NO NO NONOT THE ACTIVESHITTIN NIGGERED BISEXUAL OUT!!!GAMERS WE ARE C(U)OO(C)KED!!
>>722467761Microsoft's gaming efforts imploding is a good thing.
>>722468889>fuck you got mineThanks saar, this is peak indian behavior thinking only you matter while the world moves on without you.
>>722468914>You're going to spend the rest of your life playing 20 year old games?yes
>>722468837I don't like Trump, but you going out of your way to whine about him in a vidya post about xbox is parody level.>No, objectively it's notYes, it objectively is.
>>722468580The FTC are complicit if you take into account how the us government props up microsoft by giving them subsidies, tax breaks, contracts etc but the w*man doesn't mention that. Microsoft benefited from government intervention before they became as big as they are.Free markets allows for market leaders to fall and get replaced. That's also part of the correction.
>>722468849Again, do you not know who microsoft is? >>722468463 this like your first time hearing about them?They were pushing that shit before you were even born. Their push for ESG began in the 90s when they were hiring immigrants to check boxes https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/how-an-immigrant-kid-living-below-the-poverty-line-ended-up-at-microsoft-1997-241a2caf0206You should have known this about Microsoft and why it was shit they controlled anything. Blackrock didn't need to help Microsoft on DEI, they wrote the book.
>>722467676>>722468301>inflationPrices increase to generate profit and also money printing
>>722468335There are more games releasing than ever before this year. The entire industry is FILLED with low effort garbage.
>>722468335>You losing your industry is you losing your voice in what video games get popular.It's not our industry. It's yours and you're scared your wokeshit is coming to an end. And you should be. The jig is up. It's fucking over
>>722469119Sure they're complicit, but what were they supposed to do? They were trying to stop the deal and said US Government just went over them. This is after the Biden and later Trump Administration gave billions to them just for existing as US companies despite the fact they were destroying a US Industry.
>>722469119That's not FTC related though. Your tax breaks have nothing to do with mergers, buyouts, and liquidation of competition. You're flailing.
>>722469031Casually making fun of politicians is something everyone does, whining about it is just sad.
>>722467926>It is the FTC's job to pick winners and losers in an industry and stop CEOs from making dumb decisions
>>722469267You're not making fun of anything, you're writing a long seething rant and then screaming about goggle frump for good measure, because you're insane and obsessed.
What's funny is thay people are familiar with the "you will own nothing and you will be happy" WEF thing don't automatically make the connection to the video game industry where games and systems aren't owned by licensed. Khan's FTC worked to fight for the right to repair. Trump's new guy said the FTC does too much and he backed off that fight.
>>722469220The point was about government intervention. FTC is another form of it. Microdick making a bad decision and being punished for it is how things are supposed to work
>>722469312>Youlol I'm not the anon who originally made that comment about Trump. You're seething like a hot tea stove because someone made fun of a politician on an Italian pizzabaking forum. Reconsider your priorities.
>>722466106If the game for your company has been in development for more than a decade with no end in sight, you should probably be seeking employment elsewhere.
>>722469126microsoft's publicly traded, they still have to do the ESG shit
Roblox
>>722464590I said this one and I'll say it a thousand more times.Normalize. Killing. CEOs.
>>722469546Where was the joke in his post? He was writing a rant about how we need to care about xbox dying and then randomly started screaming about doodle pump running the government wrong because of wojaks.
>>722469520This is specific policy separate from those other topics and policy related to them. You aren't making sense.
>>722469468Biden's FTC had 4 years and accomplished nothing on Right to Repair even though they started pretty much right at the beginning
>>722469729The joke is that Trump's cabinet is as retarded as /v/. It's not a very good joke admittedly, but I didn't make it so don't take it with me.
>>722468090You forgot how USAIDS was bankrolling those 2/3 of the industry?
>>722469798They were getting wins. The last wins came in March:https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/right-repair-movement-growing-wins-stack-rcna195230Dems in the FTC were then kicked out:https://www.winston.com/en/blogs-and-podcasts/competition-corner/president-trump-fires-remaining-democratic-ftc-commissioners
>>722464590battle pass prices is one thing but 90% of those employees are talentless freaks that are actively losing the company money while being mini piratesoftwares on twitterwhy do they deserve a job
>>722470002Source?
>>722470002>You forgot how USAIDS was bankrolling those 2/3 of the industry?25 years ago Microsoft was large enough to dominate the American market and it was like that naturally. You only got mass subsidies when they started to fail.
>>722468090quality issue, western devs haven't made much of anything worthwhile in ages, that's why they get so aggro whenever an indie game does well.If you keep feeding people overpriced garbage that gets worst and worst don't be surprised when people don't buy
>>722466443feeling is mutual
>>722468580And why is there not just no more market desire for a Halo but it is outright mocked now? That's firmly on people like you and the creative decisions taken. Don't try and fucking pin this on "chuds". Look at what you people did.
>>722465846yes yes but where are these games i hear about
>>722468580microsoft isn't to blame for sony moving to california and murdering ecchi jrpgs and the rest of the industry turning to shitbethesda was already shit when they bought them, activision has been garbage for the last decade.there isn't even a studio that can consistantly pump out good games, insomniac is the only one i can sorta consider and they're part of the "progressive" mind virus but at least their games tend to be decent.bioware would've been that but they're outright murdering their biggest franchise by handing them to talentless freaks.
>>722469783The policies dictate which companies get to do business at the whims of bureaucrats who a lot of the times are planted by businesses or are hired from businesses they're supposed to regulate. Same shit different name.
>>722470039>wins in 3/9/25>dems kicked out in 3/36/25 despite getting wings (because they got wins?)The FTC are the good guys:>But it wasn’t until 2022 that the right-to-repair battle reached wide public consciousness when consumers questioned why McFlurry machines were always broken at their local McDonald’s. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) made it illegal to bypass certain proprietary systems like the one that Taylor Company, the McFlurry manufacturer, used to fix the equipment.>After a repair startup filed a lawsuit challenging Taylor’s restrictive repair policies, which only allowed its repair people to fix machines, the U.S. Copyright Office announced new exceptions to the copyright law to allow third-party McFlurry repairs. Kit Walsh, a director at the nonprofit rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, welcomed the change.
>>722471110It's not, a tax break is a tax break and a denied merger is a denied merger.
yeah, by the time M$ got Bethesda it was pretty clear they were already running on fumes and nostalgia. just think how they rereleased Skyrim like 3 times while the trailer for Hammerfell that came out half a decade ago hasn't had a single peep since. instead they were busy making boring & shit games like F76 and Starfield. also some of the collector merch for F76 was recalled due to the physical toy being a toxic hazard. lul
>>722465393Why didn't your mother drown you in the bathtub
>give studios hundreds of millions to do nothing for upwards of 8 years>buyout studios like bethesda whose leadership instantly checked out the moment the buyout went through>start gamepass where you could pump and dump it for one or two months at a time and play numerous 60 and 70 dollar games for almost nothing, or free if you just abused bing rewards>WTF OUR COMPANY NOT DOING WELL RAISE THE PRICE OF GAMEPASSlmfao
>>722464590this stupid bitch has no one idea what she's talking about, microsoft is currently struggling to not leave gaming entirely because of how poorly it's been doing. gamepass prices being jacked up is because gamepass was unsustainable and this is the only way that they can stop the bleeding, holy shit why are people this uninformed allowed to have any fucking position in the government
He’s missing the point where there are no good devs anymore because white people dont try to be game devs anymoreIt’s a fucking humiliation ritual that doesn’t pay shit unless you’re the CEO or some nerd who’s been coding for blizzard for 30 years. So they say oh this is why gaming is dying when the reality is that third worlders have ruined everything about gaming. Invite the third world and become the third world
>>722464590The only two AAA games I've played in 15 years is DMC5 and Elden Ring. Thanks for your attention to this matter.
>>722468917>calls you jewish>calls them jewish back
>>722472085It's a global industry are you saying third worlders playing Roblox did this?
>>722464590Nintendo has a monopoly in the handheld gaming business but no layoffs. Steam, Epic Games, GOG are the only 3 digital game distribution services. No layoffs.There are price hikes, but so did microsoft, disney. Pretty much every fucking thing on the planet besides costco hotdogs are rising in price because the economy is fucked.FTC and OP are fucking morons. The only reason the dumbfuck orange man hasn't shut down the FTC already is because he wants someone to be even more fuckheaded than him.
>YOU CAN'T JUST LAY OFF YOUR EMPLOYEES>YOU SHOULD KEEP THEM AROUND>the employee
>>722469695Sakura my beloved.
>>722472581FCT fixed the McFlurry machines and are fighting "you will own nothing and you will be happy". They were fine.
>>722469695why does the card captor have to sneak cookies?
>>722472276jew is a top tier insult next to gay, tranny and indian
>>722472804>are fighting "you will own nothing and you will be happy".FTC will never win because American courts declared that EULA are legally binding in the 90s, therefore every game or purchase ever that forces you to agree that you don't own what you spent money on and will be rendered unusable at any point in time are perfectly legal.Much like the case of Microsoft vs FTC, FTC is ran by a fucking moron that picks fights they have no chance of winning.
>>722473018>Cookies
>>722472703This is the person that's laying (you) off and replacing your entire team with Indians btw.
The government has no business preventing companies from buying other companies. It's immoral first of all, and it prevents companies from putting resources to their best use. The FTC, FCC, ATF, and every other three letter agency should be abolished and replaced with nothing.
>>722473246 You clearly want cyberpunk 2077 to happen only more boring have fun with that.
>>722472703This one is not so bad. We just see her arriving at work and eating lunch and that's about it. She was probably actually doing work the rest of the time which doesn't make for interesting ragebait.
>>722473363I want people to make voluntary exchanges and to live in peace, without the threat of violence from a depraved mafia called the government.
>>722473246Consolidation of ownership has historically made things worse for workers and consumers.
>>722473564Billionaires need threat of government to treat you better.
the entire industry crashing is only a good thing
>>722473575Even if I ignore how immoral it is to think it's okay to sic men with guns on a company because they raised the price of your video games, it's not a given that companies buying another company would make anything worse. They'll be able to cut down on resources and produce things for less money, and with less waste, which is good for the economy. It sucks if you're someone who gets let go because your job is redundant, but overall it's a good thing when these people find jobs elsewhere where they'll be able to contribute more effectively. >>722473618There is no company in the world that would ever dream of treating me as badly as the government does.
>>722473564We tried that. It didn't work. That's why we passed laws.Things were not better when, for example, 1/3 of all trade for the entire planet was controlled by a single English company.
>>722467676funny when the covidbux stop flowing every company demands to charge users 100x what they should for even less of their products
It's joever
>>722467103>price fixes rentsNo kidding. More people need to be aware of this.That said, I just did a quick search, and it looks like there is some good news (https://apnews.com/article/realpage-lawsuit-rental-software-algorithm-greystar-settlement-5a52c3cea866757a508d2efa8e12d0b5)>The companies have also agreed to no longer share nonpublic information with RealPage for its rent algorithm — a key stipulation, since plaintiffs say RealPage used that information to enable landlords to align their prices and push up rents>All companies involved in the settlement deny wrongdoing and have agreed to help plaintiffs in the ongoing case against RealPage and more than a dozen other property management firms that have not reached settlements. RealPage and others are also fighting an antitrust lawsuit filed last year by the Department of Justice and several state attorneys general. Greystar reached a settlement in that case in August.
>>722466443No one good has worked at acti-blizz for years, chuddie.
>Company only produces garbage>Microsoft purchases them>Those companies continue to only produce garbagePricing out the retard subhumans who prop up Activision / Microsoft is good for gamers. Developers who only make bad games should be harmed.
>>722473835Free markets work excellently, and the East India Company that you're referencing was granted an exclusive charter by the government, that is to say it was only a monopoly because of government interference in the free market. The exact opposite of what advocates of free market capitalism support.
>>722473821>how immoral it is to think it's okay to sic men with guns on a company because they raised the price of your video games,That's not the case, denying mergers and setting rules to protect workers and consumers is good for us.>There is no company in the world that would ever dream of treating me as badly as the government does.WEF and the military industrial complex are private sector. Government getting bought and controlled to legitimize the violence necessary to protect the elite is a "guns don't kill people" situation.
>>722473964>settlementthere should be jail time. it was literally a bunch of jews in a room with a spreadsheet saying they weren't colluding to set price floors because they were 3rd party jews instead of first party jews
>>722474221guns don't kill people, tranny
>>722464590dont care. fire them all and start over it literally cant be worse
>>722474323We need to invent autonomous guns that do kill people.
>>722474221>That's not the case, denying mergers and setting rules to protect workers and consumers is good for us.It is absolutely terrible for us. There is no circumstance where a criminal mafia should be using threats of violence to prevent a sale of one company to another company. It's clearly evil, while also mandating waste and forcing companies to run less efficiently. >WEF and the military industrial complex are private sector.That would not exist without government.
>>722464590This only harms the company due to retarded decisions.
>>722473918They are all complete zombie corporations that cant survive without gibs. They literally cant keep the lights on through consumer revenue alone even if the products sell like crazy.
The judge who approved the merger also has a son who happens to also work at Microsoft too, btw. Gotta love this completely transparent, non-corrupted review process!
>>722474380we have those, they are called african americans
>>722464590>Amidst the chaos of literally anything that has ever happened ever, government asks how can we use this to take more power away from the people, and give it to ourselvesEat shit and die you cockbreathed fed.
Sony and Nintendo still raised prices. MS buying activision wouldnt have changed anything about it.
>>722467167Don't need to put out original good games if the average gamer plays slop.
>>722465481Oh the Hueg Manitees!
>>722474323That's what I'm saying, retard.>>722474407>clearly evilI'm fine with speed limits and driver's license.
>>722474407What kind of stupid mongoloid retard do you have to be to spew this shit? Even a fucking child can understand why monopolies suck shit. I don't understand how you even managed to figure out how to breathe.
>>722473564>big companies totally won't turn into depraved mafias if given the chanceMan how fucking stupid do you have to be?
>>722475461There's this view of government being more powerful than billionaires rather than easily coopted and controlled by billionaires globally. If government isn't this big and imposing thing and billionaires aren't these plucky underdogs innocently bribing them to focus on their interests rather than that of workers and consumers, it becomes more clear that getting money out of politics requires regulation and policy and they pay good money to government so that they can treat people worse.
>>722467430sasquatch in a dress is what really gets me
>>722465393>how does one company buying up every relevant piece of gaming IP then jumping off a cliff harm gamersGee anon, I don't know
>>722476441>every relevant piece of gaming IP
>>722476518https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Microsoft_franchisesYes.>b-b-b-but they're all shit now because microsoft has fucked themYes, that's the problem.
>>722476575>they're all shitPretty much. And they've been shit for far longer than to blame it all on microshaft.
>>722476614If you don't think list isn't littered with great series directly murdered by Microsoft you have absolutely zero taste.What, you're a japslop nigger? You play literally nothing and just bitch? What would you actually consider good, then?
>>722476724>What, you're a japslop nigger? You play literally nothing and just bitch? What would you actually consider good, then?
>>722476760Anyone that actually played older PC games has a greater burning hatred for Microsoft than anyone else.
>>722464590They just harm themselves, gamers don't buy their crap anymore
>>722465393Less choices, higher prices.
>>722464590And yet the (((former FTC chair))) would happily see it sold off to a foreign country if it meant it hurt America more.
cant believe i've lived long enough for Microsoft to dethrone EA as the villain
>>722464590>A stronger Federal Trade Commission could have saved the gaming industry.Could they have? They challenged it in court, they lost. Courts shifted towards being very M&A friendly decades ago.
>buy half the industry>dieBest thing MS ever did for gaming
>>722470002nigger what the fuck are you yapping about?
>>722464590I was happy they brought them out because now gaming is healing with the death of home consoles and AAA gaming. So, everything worked out.
>>722464590this really only concerns the normalfag "gaming industry", none of those companies have made a good game in over a decade, all they make is slop to keep the cattle fed.
>it's microsofts fault that the studios they bought and gave blank checks to make whatever game they want only produced dogshitseriously, it actually might be.
>>722479818>less choiceswhat choices were lost?>higher pricesjust buy the game rather than subscribe to gamepass. MS's ownership of actiblizzard has no bearing on GP price
>>722467202turd world shitholes* do it because it's the only way their national GDP can compete with a functional country.
>>722466627It´s not rocket science, if you hire people not on the "the works need to be done" basis, don´t get surprised when the time of "only the work needs to be done" arrives and those superfluous jobs got thrown out the window since they are useless bloat.
>>722467761Xbox imploding and taking bloated legacy publishers down with it is literally a good thing for gamingwe lose nothing from ActiBlizzard going bust, if anything we benefit because it means one less giga publisher.
>>722468242no, Hoover and FDR's policies are what made the crash worse.friendly reminder the market was already in the process of recovery when Hoover implemented his tariffs, and most of the world had recovered from the depression by 1935 whilst FDR was still sending FBI goons to seize people's gold at gunpoint
>retards itt unironically defending monopolies and "you will own nothing and you will be happy" to own the wokiesHoly fuck how far this place has fallen
>>722468662you just created a system where there's no incentive to innovate or create anything new.
>>722481763You can hire shill companies who will work around the clock to shill all your actions for like $2000 dollars anon now think about how much money microsoft has
>>722481763Now tell us how you feel about Valve and Epic
>>722467926>Microsoft is fucking shutteringThis is a good thing.
>>722468090Mass extinction events happen all the time in evolution.Microsoft are dying to oxygenated cyanobacteria in the ocean.
>>722481790That system is already in place. Pepsi and Coke are funded by the same investors, you think big black rock wants one of those to outcompete the other? They want an illusion of a market, where everyone just pretends to compete.
>>722481939except there are a hundred independent cola bottlers. I haven't bought a Coke or PepsiCo product in years. unironic skill issue. with your proposal, Coke and Pepsi would have their positions legally consolidated with a Royal Warrant, and all the small competitors would be shut down because they can't afford to get themselves off the ground. You're an idiot whose conception of 'investor' is "some big shadowy cabal of rich evil guys force you to take money against your will and then kick you out of your business so they can use it as a platform for their nefarious agenda".
>>722466397she was pushing antitrust investigations into googlealso into VISA way before /v/ got butthurt about them for a week before giving upAlso not sure how she's a nepo hire when she has no relation to... anyone relevant. She was fairly popular across party lines.
>>722465752Doesn't affect me. I don't buy slop from public companies.
>>722464590just makes new ip's is it really that hard?
>>722464590Good, fuck blizzard they ruined diablo
>>722482187>nigger who fail breakfast test >and proud about itweird flex
>>722482256Why do you buy products from companies that hate you?
>>722465481They got rid of all the white men and continue replacing/promoting DEI hires. Specifically, because they got away with this monopoly.Do you really think Fable is going to be a good game anon?
>>722465393>How did this "harm gamers"can you read the headline
>>722465481So gamers are actually being saved by all these firings.>>722465752Nobody buys MS shitbox or gamepass.>>722467926>Microsoft is fucking shuttering, what kind of question is that? Xbox as a brand and a studio is fucking doneHow is that a bad thing? When was the last time MS released a good game?>>722476441All those IPs had already gone to shit years ago, how does it affect me that shit IPs die out?>>722479818>less choicesChoices of what? DEI garbage "games"?>higher pricesHow so? Gamepass? Who the fuck uses that?
>>722482575>nigger continue to fail to comprehend meaning behind breakfast testInteresting
>>722468854PC has less than a thousand games ok then great graph
>>722481863NTA but valve, like most of the big online platforms, benefits massively from the way online platforms become entrenched through consumer and vendor lockin. It will be enormously difficult for anyone to ever compete with them.I do like valve more than other big tech platforms. Their flat structure and private ownership have let them avoid the rampant enshittification that's plagued most others. They make a good product and have done a lot to push PC gaming forward, especially for linux. That said, a 30% cut combined with threats to anyone who sells games for lower base prices on different platforms is absolutely textbook monopolistic behavior. For Epic, I guess you could argue there's been some consolidation in the market for 3D game engines, which they certainly benefit from. If this were the 50's or 60's they'd probably be broken up... but these are not those times. Today's courts will just say "Unity exists" and move on.
>>722482256quiet esl
>>722464590Microsoft buying spree just accelerated the demise of the american AAA game industry for a decade.If anything a quick death is always better than a slow, painful one
>>722482613I have my doubts that it's going to be a game at all.
>>722464590>hey you know that dogshit game pass where you can play all the games that are too shitty to be worth buying the first place>yeah we're going to raise the price on it, aren't you upset?!
>>722464590How exactly is it harming players? I will just not buy their shit, and I don't care if they have to fire the trannies
>>722465846>The entire western AAA market puts 0 games outgeeeg
>>722483265really is telling about the industry.
>>722467926And how did this "harm gamers"? You are writing under the pretense that anyone gives a fuck about eckbok
>>722468335>Remember all the screaming and shidding you did over this nobody chinese game coming and going with zero fanfare? I do. Expect more of that because your government has failed you.Oh God it's THIS fucking trannyDo you have this sentence in a txt so you can copypaste it you mentally ill fuck? It has been more than a year that it was found you are an urinalist
Oh noPlease noGuysMy Bethesda guysMy ActivisionPlease guys noWhat are we going to do without Bethesda and ActivisionWhat will we do when WoW goes EOS guys
>>722482613Xbox was fucked long before Sarah Bond came along. The 360 being a success killed them since all the business people in Microsoft who happily ignored the gaming division all suddenly wanted to run it and they went scorched earth on everything that made it successful because they thought they knew better
>Activision>1 cod per year>Lizzard>WoW>Bethesda>One fucking dogshit fallout every 10 years and one fucking dogshit TES every 10 yearsOh my God almighty what an irrecoverable loss
>>722468335>Remember all the screaming and shidding you did over this nobody chinese gameyes, just not the version you have in your head.
Robert Kottick sends his regards
>>722467761>inb4 FTC gets buckbroken by M$ like the taxman from several decades priorConsidering they are now tied in with the US military that might be a suicidal move. An attack on Microsoft could be considered a form of high treason.
>>722483654Speaking out against Chinese anything is risky, talking shit about a prominent chinese game like this was just asking to get gangstalked
>>722483674>kike walks away with a sack of gold leaving the sinking mess to othersA tale as old as time
>>722483604>Bethesda will die before TES6 and Fallout 5 comes outMaybe it's for the best.
>>722483754not to mention blatantly lying to push an article as a "journalist".
>>722483781Starting to notice a pattern here
>>722465752>price goes up>don't buy product at all anymoreOh noes!
>>722483950>refuse to purchase the products >willingly engaging in a form of economic radicalismGrim
>>722468301>private equity, which needs to churn out profit to investors that don't care about the company or industry's longevity.This is the actual real problem. Private equity firms don't give a fuck about what they do to companies they acquire. It's all purely predatory exploitation. Suck 'em dry of their own earnings, shift budget around to offload losses to an acquired firm so you can make it bankrupt and get your debt to magically disappear, short-term restructuring (i.e. gutting) to make 'em look more profitable and able to be sold on for a profit, etc.At the macro-scale, it's all following the classic J-curve of a plague.And it pairs up with the ruling from Dodge vs Ford and the fiduciary obligations towards shareholders being cemented in legal precedent, which legally validates their approach and allows them to basically fuck over the entire world economy on the long-term.All because the Dodge brothers were misers looking to squeeze more money from their factory by purposely keeping the working conditions for their employees as piss-bad as they could possibly get away with without starting a riot.> Press F to spit on grave
>>722468662You're describing the EU.
>>722468662Commies are so fucking retarded is unreal how they survive daily
>>722473564markets only exist because the guys with guns need to pay their soldiers and weapons suppliers with numbers that can be traded for real shit
>>722465393Yeah how does rising prices and making videogames lame and gay and full of microtransactions harm gamers in any way? I'm only replying because I'm bored not because I believe you're serious.
I don't care for microsoft
>>722465481WTF I love Monopolization now
>>722468662Reality: billionaire laughs and relocates to Dubai
>>722465481>yeaaaah microsoft is heccin based because trannies suffer and die looooolI want good video games motherfucker. trannies 40%ing themselves and pajeet being deported is secondary to that
>>722466443>>722465481I feel the same, fucking griftertuber fans with 0IQ>MUUUH DEI TRANNIES TRUMP2028 We are winning culture war
>>722464590who even buys that trash lol
>>722465393god fucking kill yourself man>californian dev puts any flavor of minority in a game under any context at allVE MUST RECLAIM OUR BELOVED GAMES INDUSTRY>mega-merger leads to prices being jacked and workers being laid off en masse not out of any coherent ideology but literally just greedummmm... but how does this affect you?identity politics are just a smokescreen. Nobody powerful actually fucking cares about immigrants or niggers or whatever, they're just directing you towards the most retarded narratives to obsess over possible so they can do whatever they want. Same as it ever was.If you buy into this bullshit and you're not getting paid to you're just a fucking fool.
>>722487605>complains about califags getting shafted>doomguy pic with MGR text>whines about politicskek
>>722465481Damn Trump won and you faggots are still seething about gay culture war shit.
>>722487773imagine if fags where so obsessed they kept posting about him for a decade plus
>>722487721>umm no, it's just [THEM] suffering for this! Not you! Nothing bad is happening to you, just [THEM!] you know who they are!>lol what a bunch of fucking retards
>>722487901>umm no, it's just [THEM] suffering for this! Not you! Nothing bad is happening to you, just [THEM!]how delusional do you have to be to type this out and believe it?
>>722487967BAD GOY BAD. we'll withhold your benefits package for your impudence
>>722488409I'm not from commiefonia though.
>>722465846Ah yes game such as cod and uh cod and uh... Cod ?
>>722467926>Microsoft is fucking shuttering, what kind of question is that?And ? They haven't made a good exclu since the 360 era>But muh sony andNobody care, they don't make good game either
>>722464590If you told me Nintendo would become market leader during the Wii U days I wouldn't have believed you. I was always a Nintendo fan but I stayed on PC since the N64/GC days. Just waited for NX and hoped it would be worth the money
>>722468335>No it's not you fucking retardYes it is faggotFuck corporation, fuck game who require 10 years of développement and 1000 persons to work on itGo back to 5-15 White/Japanese males team
>>722486625That's fine. Let's say Walmart becomes a foreign company, hitting them with taxes and tariffs to where they at least no longer expand in the US gives their competition a better shot.
>>722487892This is the ROI on DEI; the fact that you post like this further distracts from what corporations do to workers and consumers for profit.
Sirs they have all the talent they need.
>>722465393>people losing their job and havinh their whole life ruined by multi trillion dollar corporation is totally fine because... beca.. because....... BECAUSE I'M A MISERABLE BIGOTED CHUD WHO HATES EVERYTHING BECAUSE WOMAN WON'T HAVE SEX WITH ME AND FIND ME DISGUSTING OKAYYY?!!??
>>722490394Studied at durgasoft, saar. Bringing the very biggest talent from Nanpur to America, only found in brahmin blood from India!
>>722464590That judge should be fired for incompetence. Microsoft started layoffs almost immediately after they got the chance and it's only gotten worse.
>>722465481yes saaar only bad workers get firedwe bring more hard working indians with there amazing work ethics and hard work cultur better saaar
>market correctionIt's market consolidation sweeties
>>722490595>NOOOO THE TRANNIES PLEASE BRO THINK OF THE TRANNIES
>>722491790What does this have to do with trannies?
>>722466443you've seen those tick tock videos of women filming their day at work and it's 99% just them eating or doing makeup in the bathroom? those are the people getting fired.
>>722466129I'm pretty sure that's why kimmel got shitcanned as well, and the only reason they brought him back is because disney lost a bunch of stock. I'm sure they've wanted to get rid of him for a while because there's no way it doesn't cost them more to make that show than it actually makes in return.
>>722491920Yea only those people are getting fired definitely kek
>>722467761Killing microshit is a good thing though
>>722483950>price goes up>don't buy product at all anymoreThat's basically terrorism in America.
>>722492042He was suspended because the Trump appointed Project 2025 author said verbatim "we can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way" in regards to getting rid of Kimmel. He was suspended, but Sinclair, which owns the channel, said they wouldn't be airing Kimmel, citing the words of the FCC chair. That's why even Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson spoke up against what the FCC did.All this for criticism of Trump's FBI if not just getting information wrong as there were groyper theories that fresh into the investigation.
Xbox would still be around if ABK was blocked.
>>722474380drones?
>>722492360It's always on you, the consumer. On you, the worker. On you, the patient. Personal responsibility is fine, but when you champion deregulation, the people who benefit the most aren't ever seen as the problem. What happens is that there is an infinite test for those with fewer resources and they're expected to put all that time and money they don't have into trying everything and then swallowing their pride and starting a go fund me, hoping anyone has enough to spare given the other go fund mes people are now expected to use when they can't afford care or paying for care makes rent too expensive for them.
>>722493202Drones aren't autonomous.
Microsoft is aggressively losing in the gaming space, how in the fuck is this a "told you so" moment for anyone? Oh god, we let the merger go through and now Microsoft Gaming is... still going bankrupt, abandoning hardware console sales entirely, and desperately trying to pivot to a subscription service that they're demonstrably mismanaging.Wow, how could we let this happen? Their power is rampant and unchecked, clearly all gaming is under their boot heel.
>>722465393They're just getting rid of the dead weight of positions that are now doubly employed. It's something that always happens when big enough companies merge.
>>722464590>A stronger Federal Trade CommissionI thought we hated government regulation here?
>>722464590It always comes back to Blizzardgod I wish they would just fucking die, anyone who plays Blizzard games is lower on the social totem pole than cuckolds
>>722465393Do you really think Nintendo and Sony being the only relevant IP holders is a good thing
>>722493569>gamers are suffering!Why? >prices on this optional subscription service went up!But most gamers dont subscribe to gamepass, it's the same gamers who were suffering before the merger as after>but people were laid offThe people who had 10 years to release a game?
>>722464590>>722465393>>722465481
>>722465481>gets replaced by h1b pajeets instead
As long as their are enough people willing to keep buying the slop, then it doesn't matter. We'll never get better games.
>Two companies who make bad games joined forced to make somehow even worse games and now they are sinking and clearly, the government MUST intervene
>>722465393Prices upLess gamesAll the IPs they bought are gonna be dead
>>722465481They get rid of people who are doing work and replacing them with shitstinking jeets because they work for half the wage with fake diplomas.
>>722495887good webm
>>722496214
>>722494814There was a vibe shift they kicked in after it became clear the "you will own nothing and you will be happy" was the private sector talking about something we already knew about in the gaming industry. Regulations like Right to Repair and consumer protections makes it so that there is less stock and finance industry interests, meaning profits stay with the company and value gets passed on to the consumers.The shift also happened as private equity firms made it's way to mainstream criticism, but the problem is that the more libertarian types, the free market capitalism fans, recognize the only way to solve that issue is to oppose free market capitalism.
>>722466443They're actually doing a coping tactic, everytime they say shit like that.
>>722466443>>722467926
>>722464590https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE_6KFYevEcthis game will save the whole company
>>722497778At the end of all the cope is an angry accelerationist mindset where the poverty and desperation created by the policy you supported was intentional, you wanted collapse because you hate society. Sinking the ship to spite those who may he having a better time or people you just hate. At the point, it's not cope, it's either delusion or stupidity. Maybe it was at one time, but it mutated somewhere between getting tricked and pretending to be in on the joke.
Her entire case was m-muh Sony and trying to claim Nintendo doesn't count as video games
>>722464590I'm not harmed at all, sucks to be a hack I guess.
>>722467926>Hope those cartoon frogs and wojaks can rebuild your gaming industry.Don't worry, it will easily be rebuilt if we can make sure it crashes hard enough to essentially start with a clean slate. The more that remains the harder it will be to rebuild.
>>722466443Die mad, freak.
>>722466443Work with the scum, sink with the scumWhen the results of your workday are woke trash, I am not buying or paying for your soilatte
>microsoft>activision>BlizzardSounds like not my fucking problem. Go ahead and throw ea and squeenix in the mix just to create the perfect pile of shit I'll never play
>>722496562There's a million dudes in their garages right now making a million different games, and if 1% of them turns out any good then they're already making more and better content than all these industry juggernauts combined. They'll also sell those games for a fraction of the price. IPs dying means nothing if there won't be any good material made from them again anyways, but there will always be new ideas when people are able to actually make the games they want to make and not what a committee determines will maximize profits. We'll be fine.
>>722464590It was clearly a very greedy buyout considering how much they owned already even before the buyout. Its not like they absolutely needed Activision at all. They had Activision releasing their games on their platform and that was never going to change. Its also not like they are going to get rid of COD on Playstation for now. COD is also actually declining in popularity and I wouldn't be surprised if in less than 10 years its nowhere near the powerhouse it once was.So this was purely corporate greed at its worst.
>>722498190It's a bit insane there's this level of historical revisionism when this board actually paid attention to the hearings.
>>722490346>This is the ROI on DEIlol what does this even mean?
>>722490289It is already an international company (or tried it, lel) and wont give a rats ass if chinks or mutts are the consoomers
>microsoft>activision>Blizzard>a containment zone/spiders nest of trannies>they get fired and replaced by jeets>the trannies fan out and infest other studios ruining more and more games
>>722500030ROI = Return On InvestmentIt means if you, a billionaire with billionaire friends all trying to avoid too much attention and then the regulation and taxation that can come with that, it's worth it to lean on to DEI, not just as a form of "pinkwashing" but because you shift the conversation away from prices and profits and to cultural and ethnic issues that can be infinitely drummed up. These issues are more entertaining and accessible to the average person and it doesn't come with awkwardly admitting that maybe regulation can be good.
>>722473389>woman>doing worknah man
>>722464590Activision without Satan would have been shit either way.
>>722466730>>722465752Were you fags also sad when Stadia failed? That stuff is cancer and needs to go and stay go.
>>722497125Should just be a meme dance like all the OG races. Who the fuck cares about it being authentic to their lore in the game? They looks like a retarded tweaker having an episode.
>>722468662If somebody who generates 5 billion of value decides to just stay at home, then your economy just lost 5 billion. Because money isn't stolen, it's being made.
>>722483781>>722483920When Bobby took over Activision, it was also a sinking mess. The small hat did well there.
>>722465393>>722465857Yes, the price increase for Game Pass is the harm to gamers cited in the headline. You could have just disagreed that it's harmful or dismissed it as inconsequential instead of pretending not to be able to read it.
>rats actually come to /v/ to screech about their shit industry having consequences catch up to them 15 years lateImagine, every time you laugh and celebrate this cesspit of an industry being on its way out, there's a buttblasted journo or laid off ex-made up role grinding their teeth. lmao.
>>722498190>judge tells FTC shitter to stop yapping about sony >FTC shitter responds by yapping about sony some more
>>722469126Even though I agree with the angle of your argument, the point I think most anons here are saying is all the beloved companies of the past were already greedy, pushing Blackrock DEI slop, and failing to deliver great games even before Microsoft bought them up. It wasn't just microsoft, the entire Western market bought into this "Woke" excuse to cut back on having to make great games (or film, television, etc.). So from a customer stand point, it's a major good riddance. Like a life long star wars fan who just wanted to see Luke given a proper return, might be more than happy to see Disney and Star Wars crash and completely wiped out at this point for ruining things that were once so sacred to them. Not being able to get a job at your favorite game company and work on your favorite games is not going to be the problem, because the playerbase and future dev base are better off finding or creating new horizons around them.
who cares about any of this thoughwho the fuck cares about blizzard in 2025 like what the fuck is going on >nooo not my hideous WoW land and overwatch shit nooAnyways.
So what's the deal with the subscription service now? They want me to pay double for nu-cod and nu-halo?
>>722471198The FTC fixing McFlurry machines is one of the best examples of the FTC doing what it should be doing. Also right to repair, but getting wins in that direction now make you lose your job.
>>722465393> what is competition...are you retarded or something?
>>722501450How is a megacorp crumbling preventing you from competing.
>>722500351>ROI = Return On Investmentgee, thanks. you must be the return.
>>722501450Microsoft isn't competing with anybody except themselves - and they are not doing well. So how does this matter in this case? You just want to repeat shit you've heard and never understood.
>>722491920lmao those stay because they can suck the cock the best, fired are the americans to make place foir H1B Pajeets
>>722501692What do you mean? Saying that profit seeking for a revolving door of CEOs and investment firms means no one is in it for long term growth. Pointing this out and working against this form of generating profit isn't ROI, shifting the blame to fags with dyed hair is more profitable.
>>722490394>Hire army of jeets>company goes to shitThis keeps happening over and over again but they keep fucking falling for this meme
>>722502325With that army of jeets comes corners they want cut and deadlines they want met. Jeets don't pushback, they just do the quick job. Do the same to a native born industry vet and they'll call you stupid and rightfully blame you when the product fails. Jeets won't blame you and anons will just blame the jeets.
>>722502253>What do you mean?I mean you think knowing a basic ass term is the point of the post, and can't think past that point. >avoid the taxation that comes with ityou get taxed whenever you make a dollar of revenue. there is no avoiding it. you're thinking of tax exemptions which you can't just write off.
A large part of the problem here comes from investment firms, private equity, and that form of profit seeking. Before, profits of a studio stayed with the studio. The finance game is played by people with money to make money and loss doesn't have to be big. At a certain point, all the time and money spent learning how to make a game and then making the game is nothing compared to the time and money investing.
>>722503324There was a paragraph after the definition was given:>It means if you, a billionaire with billionaire friends all trying to avoid too much attention and then the regulation and taxation that can come with that, it's worth it to lean on to DEI, not just as a form of "pinkwashing" but because you shift the conversation away from prices and profits and to cultural and ethnic issues that can be infinitely drummed up. These issues are more entertaining and accessible to the average person and it doesn't come with awkwardly admitting that maybe regulation can be good.
>>722464590>we need more government telling you what to do!No, we need less, you fucking jewish bootlickers. There is no harm in here anyways, I just continue not buying it and if more people also dont buy it, xbox dies. If people eat the price increase it means it was cheap and now it has the correct price.
>>722465662regulation kills competition by making it too fcking expensive. Regulations are governemnt corporativism.
>>722503461>There was a paragraph after the definition was given:and yet you couldn't even read one sentence in my post. >you think knowing a basic ass term is the point of the post, and can't think past that point.
We need to end the socialist practice of subsidizing agriculture. We pay them billions to not grow shit.
>>722464590One of the few good things about the Biden administration was how his FTC picks were actually taking at least some action against corporations. This shit sucks.
>>722503771It's not socialism if its farmers big ag corporations getting payed billions.
>>722503610I did though, that's my confusion. Why be vague and just say I'm the return without explaining how? You ignored my post to reply with much less information.Read this part again:>to avoid too much attention and then the regulation and taxation that can come with that, I'm not implying they weren't taxed before. Sorry if I gave that impression.
>>722503771i don't care if it's socialism or capitalism, i want cheap food. why should i give a shit about ideology over benefit to society
>>722503461alright tranny lets play this game, if DEI shit is an evil right wing scheme...then why right wing parties combat it while left wing parties defend it feriously?Its not the first time I see a leftist antifa troon criticize DEI as a right wing ploy, but leftists are the ones who will implement it and defend it to death.I see the same shit with immigration. Leftists say immigrations is a right wing scheme to lower the salaries of the workers (they are even right on this one) but most right wing parties want to stop immigration and leftists want to keep it going.Whats up with the dissonance?Also no, regulation cannot be good. Regulations must be safety stuff, minimal, reasonable. If you make a shit ton of regulations to "protect the minds and wallets" of the customer like a daddy to a retarded kid, then you end with a distorted market, monopolies and a lot of terrible shit. Regulations are made to serve big monopolies.
>>722503968Reading comprehension.
>>722465393no idea I haven’t touched EA since NFS underground
>>722503880Small farmers do get a cut too, but yes a lot of it does go to more rich people.What's funny this time is that the tariffs made China stop buying soi and then the $20 billion going to subsidize Argentina is being used to undercut US farmers as they sell to China.
>>722482613>implying Fable will be released at all by this point
>>722465393laying off the hi fi rush devs after they put out a banger is harmful. meanwhile the south of midnight and sennua's saga studios are still in tact so lmao.
>>722504032Because it's you being a faggot about this shit, no matter what it is this year. Corporations will find another target and you keep falling for it. The left turning against the neolibs in corporate is falling for the same distraction.>Regulations are made to serve big monopolies.You don't believe this since you already admit that they can help. There are good and bad regulations and deregulation of the finance industry hasn't done you any benefits. At best you can argue that you happened to invest somewhere that profited, but you're statistically more likely to be someone working somewhere getting chewed up and spit out by private equity's model of short term profit.
>>722504032>distorted market"food should be fully cooked" is a market distortion, genius.>Regulations are made to serve big monopolies.They can, that doesn't mean they have to.
>>722465481>think of all the minorities who might be harmed by the societal level suicide and corporatocratic hellscape I voted for
>>722504725That's the smart play here, directing negativity towards a company or an industry to targets within the company, minorities, women, fags in HR. It's like we know it's a dog eat dog world, we know there's money in politics, we know they want us distracted, but we fall for shit like this every time. A bunch of people angry at the establishment and the elite convinced that the elite and the establishment are on a Raytheon pride float and aren't the billionaires funding the Raytheon pride float. It's like you need to imagine CEOs as both hyper competent geniuses and also innocently unaware and controlled by liberal arts students.
>>722504725>I lost a job I never deserved and an industry long overdue for a crash is crashing>aiiiieeeeeeeeee society is over!
>>722504032Right wing left wing, it doesn't fucking matter anymore. DEI, cancel culture, immigration, it just gets rebranded and repeated by whoever holds the reins in public atm. It's all a sham.
A small handful of companies own fucking everything, the FCC is useless.
>>722505527You mean the FTC? They made some progress and then got gutted. I guess money in politics influences policy.>>722471198
>>722504430Good regulations are minimal safety, common sense ones. Bad regulations are whatever you think will "protect the market, the consumer and such".Blackrock exists only due government intervention and regulations. Same with amazon, tesla, google, whatever.Big companies can afford to lose money with some regulations, smaller bussiness cannot. If tomorrow they pass a law forcing you to put a disabled tranny etiopian in every company, amazon with hundred thousand employees wouldnt give a shit. Your small shop with 2 employees would go to ruin.If you want more competition you need to remove regulations, not add regulations to protect the costumer. Also monopolies can be divided in 2. Completely good, healthy and normal ones. Example: you make pizza, I make pizza better, so the clients all come to me mostly. What should the government do to kill my monopoly? force to make worse pizza? put a tax on my pizza for incredible flavor? give you a subsidy for being a subpar company?This is a monopoly that benefits the consumer and the market. I make stuff better and cheaper. Completely legit way. I deserve most of the clients.Now the bad monopolies. Monopolies set up by the government with bous regulations. "due climate change only 1 pizza restaurant could be in this town, there is only one pizza permit sorry". Thats the bad one. The excuse for the regulation could be whatever they think of. Its corporativism. Not all monopolies are made equal. And by championing regulations you are killing competition and encouraging BAD monopolies.
>>722505421If its a sham, then why dont you combat it you dishonest antifatroon? why in fact, you defend it? ;)
>>722505745This is an embarrassing misinterpretation of regulatory capture, and you don't seem to understand that monopolies are usually broken up or prosecuted for monopoly behavior, not just being a large or successful company.
>>722464590No it wouldn't have.
>>722464590Apparently there's a leak going around that Xbox is dropping out of the console race. I'm not joking I just heard this 2 hours ago. Is it true?
>>722505745>Now the bad monopolies. Monopolies set up by the government with bous regulations. "due climate change only 1 pizza restaurant could be in this town, there is only one pizza permit sorry".There are bad regulations but you're making it sound like there are no bad regulations. You needing to stretch this far when you're trying to make the point that supporting regulations means supporting bad regulations without the good regulations that would be supporting by merit that we should be wanting to support good regulations. That's like scoffing at someone saying "let's get some exercise" and shooting down the idea as you assume it's going to be bad exercise and not the /fit/ approved squats and oats. Sure, you may be reacting to someone like me making the suggestion, but if you want us to exercise, if you think that's good, you can say it's good and then make good suggestions.
>>722505186> directing negativity towards a company or an industry to targets within the company, minorities, women, fags in HR. I think I'm starting to see the error behind your confusion. Chuds aren't placing blame from one onto the other. They blame both the DEI hires, the agenda, as well as the companies that hired them. They understand full well that it's ultimately the company that is at fault, but feeling sorry for the mass amount of people who played stooge for the system won't make it any better. When people keep pointing out that all these deregulations will only "harm consumers", you're leaving out the part we've been living through decades of them already making it worse, as if the alternative could have made it much better.
>microshaft losing money and goypass dyingthis hurts nobody who matters, it only makes the world a better place
>>722506043"monopolistic behavior" includes outcompeting the competition who then go lobbying and crying to the government for intervention
>>722464590has there ever been a single anti-trust judge that DIDN'T let companies merge?
>>722506453All decisions are binary. Don't be a fence sitter tranny.
>>722506679you're a strawman loving little faggot. a butt humping misdirecting little motte and bailey bitch. every time someone points out anything, you immediately scurry to the worst case possible so you can dismiss every criticism out of hand. tiresome
>>722506840Are all games good? Why do angry people say "don't play games with me"?
>>722506840Regulations can be good, so I support regulations. You admit regulations can be good, but just say regulations are bad because you've twisted yourself into a pretzel.
>>722506829Some airlines and heathcare providers, probably because state lobbies were involved instead of something replaceable like (lol) consumers
>>722473246>The government has no business preventing companies from buying other companies. Ipeople like you change your tune really fucking quick when a foreign-based company like tencent or huawei started buyimg up US companies left and right. so shut the fuck up about things ypu know nothing about.
>>722504032>then why right wing parties combat it while left wing parties defend it feriously?Because politics is more nuanced than just right vs. left, each side has their own sub-faction with potential for conflict and power struggles.Like the right has the White/Christian Nationalist that want to kick out anyone that doesn't look right, but the Tech bros want immigration for cheaper labor. On the left you have the professional/corporate middle class that care a lot about social stuff because that's the next best thing to a dragon you get to fight in an office. But that lost them the working class who feel ever increasing economic pressure.>>722506521>Chuds aren't placing blame from one onto the other.Well they sure do sound like they so. Might just be a side effect of how garbage online discourse is but some of them sound like they've never met a white man with any sort of flaw.
>>722464590Microsoft bastards keep consolidating as it eats like a black hole throwing money at everything.We are really fucked as consumers no matter who wins
>>722507979But if they were more regulated, if everyone was kept small, they'd invest more in their products.
>>722464590This has nothing to do with the buyout, it's simply a consequence of the non-viability of subscription services and large scale publishing, especially when mixed with other markets.
>>722465393it "harmed" gamers because gamers are a bunch of broke ass bitches who cry whenever they have to buy anything
>>722464590I love the utterly baffling cult that surrounds this woman. She is probably the worst FTC chair in the past half century, she stopped nothing, she allowed actual monopolistic mergers that fucked average people like Kroger/Albertsons go through without a single word, basically nothing was done at all during her entire tenure other than extremely minor token changes. The only reason Microsoft got Activision is because her court case was absolutely clown show tier. Legal news groups covering the entire thing were baffled every day by how bad her entire case and every argument she made was. Yet online she is straight up deified, like actually fucking WORSHIPPED as some sort of messiah.
>>722464590Under Trump? lmao the company would just bribe the government and agree to put political operatives on the board in exchange for "no trabble"
>>722479896Nice head canon you've invented to win an argument you've also dreamt up
>>722464590The buyout/acquisition was a means to scavenge the corpse of both megacorps, no different than when Private Equity gets involved.
>>722509674What were better FTC heads? She fixed McFlurries and got some Right to Repair wins. Trump's replacement of her even says she does too much.
>>722468740Not really.
>>722475797The only way statists can argue is if they intentionally misinterpret what I'm saying.
>>722475461>Even a fucking child can understand why monopolies suck shit.Microsoft is not a monopoly. The government is though.
>>722507313No, people like me support free trade.
>>722510042>She fixed McFlurriesThank you for accidentally doing more to prove my point than anything I could have possibly said. Hey even though>Groceries are monopolized further, killing the budget of every family>Amazon was able to buy up One Medical, consolidating private health data under a market megacorp>Amazon got to eat up MGM, consolidating film and television entertainment further under another monolithic streaming corporation>Google was able to buy up Fitbit, granting personal health data to a marketing megacorp>Microsoft got to eat up half of western gaming IPsAll under Lina Khan's (PBUH) watch, at least that BASED GIRL made it so I can buy McFlurries again!
>>722464590Microsoft is in console gaming to prevent Sony from getting sued due to antitrust concerns. The console gaming market is unnecessary for Microsoft, and the company just needs an exit.
>>722465556Don't ask questions
>>722510491>>Groceries are monopolized furtherThere is actually more than one grocery store chain in America.>Amazon was able to buy up One Medical, consolidating private health data under a market megacorpSo?>Amazon got to eat up MGM, consolidating film and television entertainment further under another monolithic streaming corporationSo?>Google was able to buy up Fitbit, granting personal health data to a marketing megacorpSo?>Microsoft got to eat up half of western gaming IPsSo? Which of your rights are being violated?
>>722483604they wouldn't be so complacent and release nothing but shit if they had actual competition that they can't just buy out.
>>722503587>regulation kills competition by making it too fcking expensive.Funny, they seemed fine and the middle class was better than ever when they were at peak regulation. Almost like you've been brainwashed to believe otherwise for their enrichment
>>722510653>So?Thanks for playing, better luck next time.
>>722510762Leftists are incapable of coming up with actual arguments.
>>722510653What an embarrassing attempt at a reply, go debate with preschoolers if you want to argue with an intellectual equal.
>>722510835No argument?
>>722510815>Leftists are incapable of coming up with actual arguments.He just fucking unironically said that after screaming SO???? 4 times in a row instead of making any arguments HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH. Holy fuck rightard intellect on display for all
>>722510898I asked which of your rights are being violated by Amazon buying MGM.
>>722510815I know rightcucks are renown for having zero self awareness but you do grasp you just replied with absolutely 0 arguments, right? The fucking irony, Charlie Kirk tier debate skills
>>722510491>Groceries are monopolized further, killing the budget of every familyhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/federal-trade-commission-lina-khan-60-minutes/So the problem was that she wasn't lefty enough? Again, who ran a better FTC? I'd like to know how it's done because it's obviously an uphill battle under the threat of the US government getting sued by corporations for any mistake.
>>722510972Which of your rights are being violated by a company buying another company?
>>722510965Rights violated? Wht the fuck are you talking about? You're fucking talking this cunt overfixing McFlurries and now you're rambling around rights? Holy shit, rightard fucking post-facto debate subject pivoting
Is this nigger for real right now?>I CAN BUY MCFLURRIES AGAIN!>WHERE ARE YOUR RIGHTS BEING VIOLATED? WHERE ARE YOUR RIGHTS BEING VIOLATED? WHERE ARE YOUR RIGHTS BEING VIOLATED? WHERE ARE YOUR RIGHTS BEING VIOLATED? WHERE ARE YOUR RIGHTS BEING VIOLATED? Even by /v/ standards this is hilarious
>>722511069Which of your rights are being violated when a company buys another company, necessitating the government using force to prevent this voluntary exchange?
>>722511035Right to a marketplace that isn't a monopoly retard.
>>722511159Are you planning to make an actual argument at some point?
>>722511202But Kroger isn't a monopoly. Amazon isn't a monopoly, and Google isn't a monopoly. Microsoft isn't a monopoly either in any of the many industries where they operate.
>>722511035nta Companies aren't people. They shouldn't be able to buy anything. The purpose of hiding wealth transfers behind company branding is to make company owners less accountable as they exploit the economy which, in the long term, does yield them a greater sense of freedom than what the rest of the people have.
>>722511159The McFlurry thing is just a real relatable positive thing the FTC did. It puts into perspective what can be done and how long that took for something basic. Right to Repair, trying to prevent grocery store mergers, that was all important work. Criticism isn't coming from a place of support of the FTC, it's just saying it's bad generally. What are other FTC heads that did a better job? What did they do?
>>722511351>Google is not a monopoly>Amazon is not a monopoly
>>722511437Companies are owned by people, either a single person or a group of people that share ownership. I don't see why it's wrong to use the funds of a company to acquire another company whose owners want to sell, and helping the company grow in a way that benefits both parties.
>>722511550There is more than one online search engine, more than way pay TV provider, more than one online store. They aren't even close to being monopolies.
>>722511035>child pornography ownership's strongest warrior has joined the server
>>722465556Blizzard is a blackhole of debt at this point probably.
>>722511710>90% market share
>>722465662Xbox and their entire gaming division are dead, retard.
>>722511625Because it's a collusive effort to profit off of exchanges of contracts while the supply/demand economy gets screwed over and all the execs get a huge payout for doing literally nothing of value.
Government bad, I'd rather 1 person control everything like in the old days.
>>722464590>ex-ign dude triples down on why it was good for ms to buy abkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSSJHlFddmo
>>722511959"Mono" means one. And regardless, the reason that Google and Amazon are so popular is because so many people like and prefer to use them. You literally want the government to punish companies for being too successful. It's a philosophy that is anti-civilization.
>>722512030If executives are being paid a lot while not providing value to the company, than the company will suffer and a competitor that is run more efficiently will benefit.
>>722464590but these failings and firings are saving the industry right nowit would be even better if some of these companies close outright
>>722512142>Let's wait until a person is 100% murdered before we do anything
>>722512282Having a popular online store is actually quite a bit different from killing someone.
>>722512278This is correct. While it sucks for the people who lose their jobs, this stuff happens when companies make bad decisions and aren't allocating their resources correctly. This is the invisible hand of the market correcting course and providing a better economy for us all.
>>722511625It reduces competition which not only makes things more expensive, it reduces opportunities for employment and shrinks the middle class. Imagine if there were no refrigerator companies, just companies for each part. A retailer is a place where those parts come together and are assembled. The inefficiency here make the product more expensive but keeps more people employed. Reducing this further to it's most efficient; a never breaking refrigerator that is made in a factory where the company owns all levels of production may be cheaper, but now it's made by less people, less people own it, less people profit it on it, but it's too perfect to pass up and now everyone has them and the refrigerator industry comes to an end. You're the only one who made it out rich enough to take care of your next few generations, but everyone else is out of a job and now you need to perfectly destroy some other industry.That's to say that regulating and having policy in place to prevent too much consolidation is good.
>>722512351>analogy, do you understand?
>>722465556>software company started by software devs>need capital to grow>finance parasites insert themselves into every facet of the development process to (((ensure return on investment)))>company is taken public for (((return on investment)))>software people are driven out>developers are replaced with H-1B serfs or fully outsourced to code mills in india and south korea>deliberately fuel churn and attrition with miserable working conditions so you don't have to give raises or benefits when people stay for too long, providing more money for (((return on investment)))>the workers who don't leave of their own volition are laid off to fuel stock buybacks and ensure (((return on investment)))Finance parasites play no part whatsoever in the creative process but are allowed to manage every aspect of it.
>>722512483You're thinking about it all wrong. Imagine if oxygen wasn't something that naturally occurred. Imagine if there was an industry around creating oxygen. Well, certainly it would keep a lot of people employed, but we would be much worse off as a society than we are now, because all those people involved in making oxygen could be making other things instead. If someone found a way to make it so no one had to make oxygen again, that we can all breath automatically, yes it would put the oxygen industry out of work, it would be hard for them until they find a new job, but now society will be much more prosperous since we no longer have to devote time and resources to this anymore. Having unbreaking refrigerators would be a wonderful thing for humanity.
>>722510835The FTC says that is has to have at least 50% of market share for a court to consider a company as a monopoly.https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/single-firm-conduct/monopolization-defined
>>722512878Meant to reply to >>722512142
>>722512969Okay well that is incorrect. And the only monopolies in America are run by the government.
>>722464590Has there ever been a merger that was good for employees and for the consumer? It only ever seems to help the corpo suits get even richer, while the rest of us lose out again.
>>722513058Sirius and XM merged and then you got the talk shows from both. And leftoid shitheads tried to block it too.
>>722512282you joking but here cops dont move unless someone is 100% dead>call us when they killed someonethey cant be bothered to send dispatch to every single call
Remember when conservatives wanted to fight wars, protect the environment and bring down big business?
>>722513205We have to stop these people from providing goods and services to me in exchange for money!
>>722512214If all a deadbeat company has to do is "run efficiently" in order to rake in billions through negotiations without having to meet the People's needs, then all the more reason for companies not to be given rights.
>>722512282(the sound of children screaming has been removed)
>>722464590Activision and Xbox were both cancers on the industry so both of them dying is a good thing.
>>722513446Microsoft is clearly meeting people's needs when it comes to computers. Their Xbox division is not adequately meeting people's needs, and is suffering because of it.
>>722465910>"they only have 77.9% marketshare!"They've got like 20%, IF THAT.
>>722513559There's no demand for Windows specifically. It's a monopoly.
>>722512865>Having unbreaking refrigerators would be a wonderful thing for humanity.It would be, but if product after product went this way, there would be a great upheaval because the savings of never having to buy a refrigerator again is a drop in the bucket compared to the income and health benefits working at a refrigerator part company could have provided. It's cool that you saved one of your children from needing to buy a refrigerator, but now you're struggling to pay rent.Now that analogy is still just the dream scenario. What happens doesn't reach that perfection because it isn't profitable. They wouldn't if they could and they'll make sure someone else doesn't make a cheaper regular refrigerator (now with subscription based features) so they buy up more companies until they're the only game in town.
>>722513205I like how MacArthur broke up the zaibatsus when he was in charge of Japan. He didn't even have to do that, he just thought it was fucked up how like 5 companies owned basically everything over there.
>>722513631It is not a monopoly. Apple has a completely different operating system. And there's nothing stopping another company from launching a new operating system, except that they know most people would rather stick with Windows.
>>722467926Objectively correct.
>>722513750What's better was that came with the resources and means to build up that rail and housing infrastructure. It's like if you can provide affordable living, transportation, and health care, you can pay your employees shit wages because the cost of living goes down.
>>722513184The government let them become a monopoly?
>>722513697>It would be, but if product after product went this way, there would be a great upheaval because the savings of never having to buy a refrigerator again is a drop in the bucket compared to the income and health benefits working at a refrigerator part company could have provided.That's when you get another job doing something that needs to be done instead of something that doesn't need to be done.>so they buy up more companies until they're the only game in town.This is a fictional scenario. Companies do buy other companies, but they do not become the only game in town.
>>722511437>Companies aren't people.Thanks to one of the worst Supreme Court rulings in history, companies have all the rights of people, but none of the obligations.
>>722513993That's what some people tried to argue. There is only one satellite radio company in America now, so they wanted to block the deal. But Sirius and XM successfully argued that there's other ways to receive audio in your car besides through satellite, and they also explained that the market for satellite radio isn't big enough for there to be two companies, and for the business to survive, they'd have to merge.
>>722514184>the market for satellite radio isn't big enough for there to be two companies,I think that's true, but it's still a monopoly. Weird I never heard about the merger.
>>722512878And even that is not a good metric for something being a monopoly. Google is still something like 80% of the search engine market, but is fully unable to engage in Monopolistic behavior like raising prices or blocking competition.Microsoft is certainly not a monopoly and has almost non-existent market power in the video game space. Especially if you use a reasonable definition of the video game market which includes mobile gaming and Steam - I don't think I've ever heard a good argument for the console market to be in some way unique. Microsoft can't do jack shit to stop somebody from creating and releasing a video game on most highly visible, popular platforms whether that somebody is a solo indie dev working out of his garage or Sony.Lina Khan (FTC Chair in question) used a heterodox definition of what constitutes a monopoly when she was in charge. So while her willingness to actually use the FTC to go after anti consumer behavior was good (RealPage lawsuit is a great example) it also resulted in a bunch of dumb bullshit (attempt at blocking the Microsoft-Activision merger) that drove a lot of talented people to leave the FTC.I hate it because public discourse around what a monopoly is or why it's bad was already garbage and she made it even worse. Large, massively scaled businesses can have a ton of good benefits for consumers. But her retarded rhetoric basically cemented the idea that big business = monopoly among the kind of people who get their news from TikTok.
>>722514268It is now the one and only satellite radio company, and society is doing just fine.
>multiple McKinsey & Co hirings the past 18 mos on xboxThe pattern couldn't be clearer>Surround anchor jeet CEO>Execute (((Shareholder))) strategy to tank division(s)>Announce massive restructures/cuts/layoffs to pump share price>Pump>Dump>Sell out>Bro downThey do this with every fucking company they touch. It's beyond a clown show not once company has been called out for it. The FTC/CMA are useless corporate lapdogs
>>722514053>get another jobThat's why I mentioned how this would spread from product to product. You're never able to get a foothold and those opportunities you might have used in the alternate reality where there are no refrigerator manufacturers, just companies for separate parts, are completely gone. You never dreamed of them because even planning to start a refrigerator business of any sort was a foolish waste of time.>Companies do buy other companies, but they do not become the only game in town.I get that people trade for meat in the wilderness, so no one grocery store could every truly have 100% market share.
>>722514356It's certainly affected much less negatively than other radio mergers.
>>722514678>McKinsey & CoIt's crazy how gigantic CEO payouts are relatively new and it's thanks to them that we have more wealth flowing away from investing into the company and to them which they in turn donate to politicians which give them even more control.
>>722514678>McKinsey & CoHow come everything they do leads to evil? Who are they and how are they so powerful?
>>722514973https://youtu.be/AiOUojVd6xQIt was founded in 1926.By the 1950s was assisting White house, created chief of staff position.Invented the bar code.They are a consulting firm that takes the blame for ideas that help you, the CEO and your investors, and hurts workers and consumers.
>>722465481where do those ignorant polniggers making shit up come from?
>>722515260>They are a consulting firm that takes the blame for ideas that help you, the CEO and your investors, and hurts workers and consumers.How come they haven't been lynched yet, their offices burned to the ground, their executive team given a taste of the evil they do to others?
>>722515939They keep a low profile. The video shows their building doesn't have any signs or logos, they want to be unknown.
>>722466106Maybe she should have done a less shit job during the actual court case then instead of only pointing to how the merger would hurt Sony specifically.
>>722467242And now game pass is more expensive so customers buying the only worthwhile product are paying more. Certainly, this move has hurt gamers. Layoffs hurt game developers. I don't see why there is any contention here.
>>722464590No such thing, the US is s a corpo hellscape, especially after 09.
>>722515438Where do you think you are? This isn't you echo chamber safe space
>>722464590when i saw this in the catalog i misread it as "microsoft jacks off thousands"
>>722464590>harming gamerslollmaoThe only people getting harmed are DEI hires and shareholders.
>>722503904dude, I will say this as simply as I can, without trying to be a massive asshole. you are failing to piece together anything beyond understanding basic terms used in undergrad business courses, and it causes a breakdown in communication. when I say "lol what do you even mean?" I'm not asking for a definition of ROI.
>>722464590literally who didn't see this coming?
>>722519182>be intentionally vague>get misunderstood>get butthurt>refuse to clarify>get asked for clarification>refuselmao
>>722519632this is why you will forever be a double nigger, who no one takes seriously.
>>722520519gee, thanks. you must be the return.
>>722520705how original, and dare I say, based?
>america is the only country in the world that has experienced TWO video game industry crashes in the past 45 years
>>722520916>"Nothing could have prevented this" says only nation where this happens
Maybe it's good if everyone plays less video games. Data centers for AI and bit coin are making energy prices more expensive.
>>722507371>each side has their own sub-faction with potential for conflict and power struggles.leftists trying desperately to convince everyone else they're not "the bad leftists" for the past year now.
>>722523378What gets called "the left" now is a wide range. The Clintons were famously centrist but now they're viewed as leftwing radicals while they're still the same Reaganites. Nixon was famously anti-leftist, anti-communist and anti-hippie but he still made the EPA.
>>722523754>The Clintons were famously centrist but now they're viewed as leftwing radicalswhat timeline are we in?
imagine having a """""(((((MICROSOFT)))))"""""" subscriptionwhat the fuck is wrong with you how is this any white persons problem
>>722516081Midtown Manhattan skyscrapers generally don't have logos plastered everywhere when they have hundreds of offices.
>>722522331Don't forget the left's constant demand for full electrification, despite lacking the infrastructure or power capacity to handle it.
>>722524052What issue do you have with that statement? The Clintons are centrists. The term "Clinton democrat" means centrist democrat. It's a terms that's been used since the 90s.
>>722464590Honestly as much as I dislike microcucks it feels like the whole thing was sabotagedbut then again they should have saw the writing on the wall, fallout 4 and fallout 76 are pure garbage but normies are retarded and eat it up.But a lot of us didn't expect just how fucking bad shitfield was going to be lol.
>>722496562if you're not retarded then you don't buy AAA games anymore which means none of that effects the high IQ gamers.at most there might be like 1-2 AAA games you might want if you're into shit like fromsoft games etc but outside of that you shouldn't be buying jack shit.
>>722496214>>722497125wtf were they thinking? lmaoshould have just kept the night elf dances
