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Topic	Do any of you believe that with the MS , activision acquisition going through
adjl 07/16/23 10:58:00 AM #17:	GranTurismo posted... so you personally didn't want it to go through? Having large chunks of any industry held by a single entity generally isn't a good thing. Healthy competition relies on having a bunch of independent entities trying to outdo each other. When those entities get merged into monolithic giants that just try to poach multiplatform studios from each other instead of coming up with their own ideas, the market suffers. Of course, the AAA market has been a hot mess for years now and shows no signs of getting better, given that the only competition they're interested in is coming up with more efficient ways to milk money out of the mentally ill, but that still doesn't mean I'm in favour of making it worse. ConfusedTorchic posted... you are wrong lol demonstrably so What a convincing argument. ConfusedTorchic posted... based on how hard he is trying to argue that it is a bad thing that sony will lose some money, when that doesn't matter in the slightest I don't really care about Sony losing money. What I do care about is the fact that removing CoD from Playstation will harm consumers that bought a Playstation with the expectation of being able to play CoD on it, while doing absolutely nothing to improve the market. You can harp on all you want about "more platforms" because they're talking about bringing it to a bunch of streaming services that are just PC with a different login, but PS customers losing access to the game hurts those customers. Whether MS has indicated any plans to take that step is largely irrelevant. The merger gives them the option of doing so, and I fully expect that whenever Sony announces a new console, CoD won't be on it because that's going to be MS's best bet for building a decent install base (without the loss of sweet, sweet microtransaction revenue from the current PS5 install base). ConfusedTorchic posted... at one point he even made the claim that making something more available was actually making it less available lmfao What is it about this subject that's made you incapable of discussing it without resorting immediately to strawman statements? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:974871623] in Do any of ... [t:80509290]...</cite> <quote>GranTurismo posted... </cite><quote>so you personally didn't want it to go through?</quote>Having large chunks of any industry held by a single entity generally isn't a good thing. Healthy competition relies on having a bunch of independent entities trying to outdo each other. When those entities get merged into monolithic giants that just try to poach multiplatform studios from each other instead of coming up with their own ideas, the market suffers.Of course, the AAA market has been a hot mess for years now and shows no signs of getting better, given that the only competition they're interested in is coming up with more efficient ways to milk money out of the mentally ill, but that still doesn't mean I'm in favour of making it worse.ConfusedTorchic posted... </cite><quote>you are wrong loldemonstrably so</quote>What a convincing argument.ConfusedTorchic posted... </cite><quote>based on how hard he is trying to argue that it is a bad thing that sony will lose some money, when that doesn't matter in the slightest</quote>I don't really care about Sony losing money. What I do care about is the fact that removing CoD from Playstation will harm consumers that bought a Playstation with the expectation of being able to play CoD on it, while doing absolutely nothing to improve the market. You can harp on all you want about "more platforms" because they're talking about bringing it to a bunch of streaming services that are just PC with a different login, but PS customers losing access to the game hurts those customers. Whether MS has indicated any plans to take that step is largely irrelevant. The merger gives them the option of doing so, and I fully expect that whenever Sony announces a new console, CoD won't be on it because that's going to be MS's best bet for building a decent install base (without the loss of sweet, sweet microtransaction revenue from the current PS5 install base).ConfusedTorchic posted... </cite><quote>at one point he even made the claim that making something more available was actually making it less available lmfao</quote>What is it about this subject that's made you incapable of discussing it without resorting immediately to strawman statements? --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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