I hate exactly this though! the feeling of putting up with something that only excels in one area and limps through the other two because that’s what their funding model supported just makes me want to spend my time somewhere else
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Yeah, I wouldn’t play it in a conscious state. A real risk of this consolidation because in general publishers only see games like this, for weirder and stronger stuff to slip through you want the ability to shop forums. Still, for now digital hitmaking is minting more mid-size publishers than Microsoft can buy.
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this might not still be true, but from what i understand it’s historically pretty difficult for foreign entities to acquire a japanese company even one of capcom’s level. probably why they will continue to just make “exclusive” deals like the yakuza arrangement
I joked elsewhere that they should have tried buying Sony Japan Studio when they had the chance, but the more I think about it the more I wish that happened instead (that’s a bad idea artee pls stop it).
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why would you pay this much for CoD when you can just torrent it for free
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Bill raiding Black Temple as we speak
meanwhile in slack the conversation has gone thusly:
→ someone mentions the news
→ someone else talks about how they’re not a huge fan of industry consolidation
→ the first person says “well disney hasn’t ruined anything for me personally”
→ 38 message long conversation about star wars
get me the fuck out of here
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Just want everyone to know that this is an extremely hilarious world of warcraft joke
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don’t think the last couple were ever cracked actually
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it always goes like this… i get the strongest urge to escape the conversation and the room when it happens.
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if disney hasn’t ruined anything for you personally you simply value nothing
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well I hope they got all the DLC for 69 billion then!
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the reaction to the microsoft acquisition among the general public makes me feel crazy. people are cheering this on like it’s not continued drive towards the microsoft monopoly. would they feel the same if amazon bought out activision? or tencent?
then again none of it matters anyway. i should let the normies be happy call of duty is governed by phil spencer now or whatever. just feels weird to cheer on microsoft buying out the largest franchises in gaming year after year.
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I think it is very plainly telling that there is no longer widespread objection to this, for various reasons, some of them just having to do with short memories and some of them admittedly reasonable in a modern context if extremely depressing in principle
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the MS monopoly amnesia thing is maddening and even more so for how ubiquitous it is. i remember open source devs saying “it’s not so bad” when they bought github. open source devs!
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It’s me, depressing in principle!
It’s damning that this doesn’t even approach an antitrust case by US standards
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what standards lol
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