Me too, I know it’s not a popular opinion on here (for good reason) but this should put more pressure on PlayStation and drive competition there, make gsmepass more attractive and hopefully shake things up at Activision blizzard which could go either way, but worth the risk given how shitnthey currently are.
Comment on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal gets preliminary approval from UK regulator
theKalash@feddit.ch 9 months ago
That’s great news, hope this goes through, soon.
gmtom@lemmy.world 9 months ago
slazer2au@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hope it doesn’t. MS has a history of anticonsumer practices that goes all the way back to the 90s.
No matter what they say to the regulator MS will stop releasing any ABK existing IP onto Sony and Nintendo consoles.
Even though it will not directly effect me as a PC gamer it is still a bad thing for the industry as a whole.
theKalash@feddit.ch 9 months ago
MS is one of the last hope to safe some of the classic Blizzard titles as the state of Activision Blizzard as it is simply can’t get any worse.
Carighan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why? As in, why are they “the last hope”? What can they do that ActiBlizzKing cannot?
theKalash@feddit.ch 9 months ago
Literally anything.
There is currently a handful of devs doing the occational balance patch for SC2 otherwise the game is complelty dead from the developer side. On the MS side, AoE2 and other even older games are doing so much better.