Comment on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators

• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  oh okay as long as it’s on pc we don’t care. cool. Honestly I have such a hard time with the video games community. for a long time I was a big supporter of the idea that a certain company shouldn’t be buying up exclusives because games should be for all.

  but as soon as Microsoft started doing it, everyone has this apathetic response suddenly because “i got mine”. As soon as the shoe is on the other foot gamers show themselves real quick.

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because Nintendo and Sony are doing it too, but at least Microsoft is putting their games day one on PC… They’re going to make their games exclusive one way or another, but this is preferable to the way other companies are doing it.

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    • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This whole thing has confused the ever loving balls out of me. Xbox and Microsoft having been getting MURDERED over the last few years and ridiculed by pretty much everyone for one reason and one reason only, they have no games. Why get an Xbox? PlayStation and Nintendo have all the good exclusives. Xbox has nothing.

      Now, Microsoft goes out and buys up some IP’s and studios that have games they can make exclusive if they want (even tho they’ve said over and over they won’t for the ones that currently aren’t console exclusives but we’ll see on that one). So, for the first time in pretty much forever they’ll have the opportunity for console exclusives other than Halo and now everyone is complaining that they’ll make the games console exclusives. It’s like the biggest damned if you do, damned if you don’t for them lol.

      “Fuck Xbox they don’t have any good exclusives.”

      Microsoft goes out and gets good exclusives

      “Fuck Xbox they’re making the good games exclusive.”

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      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s a third way here though, MS could make good exclusive games themselves and leave Activision available for everyone.

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      • EveningNewbs@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Astroturfing is a very real thing that major companies participate in to sway public sentiment.

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    • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yes, this is the part where I gave up trying to say

      “Hey it’s bad these guys make their games exclusive, pc players and xbox players and whatever should all be able to play these games”

      because now fuck it, why bother. pc players and xbox players do not care as soon as they got theirs. they won’t show the same support as soon as they get their games.

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      • simple@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        pc players and xbox players do not care as soon as they got theirs.

        Sony players don’t care as long as they get theirs

        Nintendo players don’t care as long as they get theirs

        Who cares? Fans will be fans.

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      • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It won’t fulfill your apparent need to have people pat you on the tummy and say you are a good boy but:

        PC more or less is THE second platform (or first, with console as second) for a lot of people at this point. So if the option is:

        1. Studio goes out of business because a great game didn’t sell amazingly well. See Mimimi for a “good” example of this
        2. Soft or hard acquisition results in games trapped on a single platform with questionable backwards compatibility policies. Bayonetta 2 and 3 being nintendo exclusives until the end of Nintendo is a “good” example of this
        3. Soft or hard acquisition results in game that is console exclusive to one platform, but also on PC

        I’ll always pick 3. Because as console prices increase? A “couple years old” gaming PC is not horrifically expensive (so long as crypto stays in the shitter…).

        But also? Shit like Geforce Now and other streaming solutions means that people (who don’t live in the ass end of nowhere and have such horrible internet they wouldn’t be able to download the day one patches anyway) can play these games on their macbooks or even their chromebooks.

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  • drekly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m confused. You’re angry because you want games on the PlayStation? Nobody forced you to buy it. There are plenty of good games on there, and Sony do the same. I’m not crying that Bloodborne isn’t on PC. (not publicly)

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    • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not crying that Bloodborne isn’t on PC

      I used to say that I think it should be. Now I don’t. why don’t pc gamers want to support games being available everywhere?

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      • drekly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Of course games should be everywhere, but exclusives sell consoles.

        to answer your question about PC gamers, it’s not that we don’t **want ** games to be everywhere, its because they already have the system where all the games go, so why should they even think about it? We don’t care about your console wars, just get a PC and stop complaining.

        ‘Madmen elevator meme’

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• krakenx@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is no way that Gamepass is going to remain a good value once it’s past trying to get new members in the introduction phase. I would give it at most 2 years before the enshitification really takes hold. It could be merely months since they are trying to look good to regulators right now.

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  • drekly@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is gamepass dies the Xbox on pc store will too… Then they’ll come grovelling to steam and the deals come back 😅

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