If anyone was wondering why Microsoft, of all the evil companies in the world, was kind of staying out of the Woke fighting, or not getting too involved, and still releasing half decent games that aren't preaching communism, well, this is why. (Even though the company itself is uber-woke, they've mostly kept it out of the games comparatively.)
They're aiming to be last man standing while the rest of the industry goes on a firesale.
Well they also needed something other halo and Minecraft to sell hardware to get people back on Xbox. Which is why they have gone on a shopping spree. I went to college with quite a few people who pretty much only played cod and fifa on PlayStation. Now half the games they play will be exclusively on Xbox/pc
For consumers? no. Google is pretty happy with all its ad acquisitions, all those companies are dead and there is no competition. Oracle is pretty happy with its patent trolling from its acquisitions. Game companies are pretty happy with their small company buys where they produce garbage sequels and everyone buys it.
Not where I work. Our IT department sent out a memo saying not to install it on our work machines, and that it was unwise to install it on personal machines.
to be fair, lack of acquisitions often go stupidly bad too.
digg refused to sell to multiple companies, ultimately turning down a $200m offer, only to do their next funding round only at $175m, and then they promptly collapsed.
groupon refused to sell to google for $6b and a few short years later wasn't worth shit. hell, groupon's collapsed was so bad the shock waves killed livingsocial and daily deal offerings from both google and amazon.
if these sexual assault allegations are fake at all
Sexual harassment doesn't follow logic, so I am sure there is something. Say "Hi" to female coworker, sexual harassment. Don't say "Hi," now you are discriminating against her.
most of it will be quietly memory holed for exactly that kind of nonsense.
look at the women's US soccer team. the media massively propagandized their discrimination case, which has now been shown to be a complete fucking dumpster fire. they lost at the trial court because it turns out they were offered the men's deal and turned it down. then they lost on appeal. then their contract negotiations came up for renewal, and once again, they were offered the men's terms. instead of accepting the men's terms, they refused and demanded their current terms. now they're demanding a rehearing on their appeal, as if there's still a legitimate discrimination case, when twice now they turned down the same terms as the men.
it's well into hysterical screeching retardation at this point, and they're completely detached from reality.
I imagine it’s M$ taking advantage of wounded publisher. Activision’s stock took a huge nose dive over the past year and I doubt M$ has the ability to fill up blizzard with blue haired weirdos demanding unions and causing havoc. Chances are they are going to clear house once the dust settles and put in M$ Yes men who are also blue haired weirdos
Yeah, I keep subscription running, because I have enough ingame gold to keep a subscription running for 20 years (of course it won't last that long with ingame inflation, but you get the idea).
And it's a decent activity that I enjoy doing while watching some soccer games.
Then I clear the LFR raid (not really interested in organized raiding anymore) and do 1-2 M+ a week (KSM is my goal, which I usually get).
I get maybe 2 hours / week out of WoW, more when new content releases. And as I said - it's free.
No one cares or is interested in your stock trades. Everyone owns and trades stocks these days, it is like mentioning you own a dishwasher. You come off like some FOB Indian.
I'll have you know I am what they call a stock trader. I am kind of a big deal, I trade stocks. You mentioned dishwashers, I just bought some Whirlpool stock. I am hoping to make a pretty good profit off of it.
My goal was to shame you into making fewer shitty comments mentioning your stocks. I'd even take you replying to my comments less. That is how first world society works. It was probably naive since you are shameless and treat this community as your personal blog.
I know we should be concerned about large mega-corporations, but Activision is such a plague on the games industry, that anything that would kick Bobby Kotick out is only a net gain.
No idea if they are still following that rule, but they do have it. And yes, I can imagine it, after all we live in $CurrentYear and crazy is the norm :/
lmao
100%.
If anyone was wondering why Microsoft, of all the evil companies in the world, was kind of staying out of the Woke fighting, or not getting too involved, and still releasing half decent games that aren't preaching communism, well, this is why. (Even though the company itself is uber-woke, they've mostly kept it out of the games comparatively.)
They're aiming to be last man standing while the rest of the industry goes on a firesale.
Xbox management all have their pronouns listed.
Also, their shirt colors.
Well they also needed something other halo and Minecraft to sell hardware to get people back on Xbox. Which is why they have gone on a shopping spree. I went to college with quite a few people who pretty much only played cod and fifa on PlayStation. Now half the games they play will be exclusively on Xbox/pc
they took away CORTANAS tits. shes an ANDROID FOR FS SAKE
and put a goony beard fag in halo 6. theyve made windows 11. and theyre trying to get CROSS-PLATFORM BANS
fuck ms in the ass with a rusty xp floppy
Do you understand the word "comparatively?"
The Coward and Cortana's tits are hardly pushing communism and transgenderism.
I didn't even notice! Yet again, it's all about the money. Nice observation.
Still sold for far above its stock price.
100%
I don't suppose they can make a company who's products were already dead to me any worse.
Right? I just can't get myself to care, is the equivalent of CNN buying MSNBC, it can't make it worse.
On the one hand, seeing ActiBlizz bought out is just funny.
On the other hand, M$ is getting WAY too big for comfort. Especially with all the DRM-In-Hardware stuff that they've been pushing.
AGAIN! Does nobody remember they've been broken up before for being too big?
Why do we have to keep teaching you this lesson, Gates, you old man!
its probably going to be a lot harder to pirate when your hardware is a rootkit
Was there an acquisition in the history of ever that worked out well?
For consumers? no. Google is pretty happy with all its ad acquisitions, all those companies are dead and there is no competition. Oracle is pretty happy with its patent trolling from its acquisitions. Game companies are pretty happy with their small company buys where they produce garbage sequels and everyone buys it.
Conglomerates just keep getting bigger
Not for Microsoft.
Skype was a colossal failure. Rare never gets used.
Skype was acquired to make Teams. Microsoft Office was always more valuable than Skype.
Zoom absolutely killed Skype, rolling it into Teams was purely to save some returns on their investment.
They rolled out teams before zoom caught on during lockdowns
'caught on' was pushed by the ceos and media
Not where I work. Our IT department sent out a memo saying not to install it on our work machines, and that it was unwise to install it on personal machines.
zoom only took off because it's owned by china and they got favorable treatment.
there were dozens of other major players in the space, and google meet does literally everything zoom does, even voice calls into big meetings.
I believe Teams is something corps actually pay for. I've seen it used at work several places.
Zoom is more popular among the free crowd...
I prefer skype, whatever zoom does to audio it reminds me of those "play it backwards and sounds like the devil" kind of things.
zoom has no security.
Powerpoint, Visio and Hotmail were all successful acquisitions for Microsoft, and GitHub and LinkedIn may still prove to be.
They had Minecraft. I think that turned a profit for them.
Enix getting bought by Squaresoft turned out ok.
blizzard didnt ruin candy crush... afaik
to be fair, lack of acquisitions often go stupidly bad too.
digg refused to sell to multiple companies, ultimately turning down a $200m offer, only to do their next funding round only at $175m, and then they promptly collapsed.
groupon refused to sell to google for $6b and a few short years later wasn't worth shit. hell, groupon's collapsed was so bad the shock waves killed livingsocial and daily deal offerings from both google and amazon.
Google got ahold of YouTube for a pretty cheap price.
I love having everything in my entire existence be subject to the rules and politics of like 4 multinational corporations
Very socialist, very safe.
Like shadowrun but without any of the stuff that makes shadowrun fun like magic and street samurai
Tencent was probably looking at buying actiblizzard. Would you have prefererred the Chicoms buying them?
at least they pay with american dollars
Well at leas they don’t tolerate effeminate men…
They seem pretty hands off for the most part. I mean warframe has all of those. But its still a really shitty game and hemorrhaging money.
if they ban trannies, ill begrundgingly play their studios games...
You think that bullshit wasn't psyop blustering?
fucking lmao
They now own Crash Bandicoot and Tony Hawk.
The skylander cartoon is good for the time we live in. It is old-school funny with 0 woke stuff.
spyro isnt a tranny?
COD Infinite incoming.
Follow the history of Microsoft; whichever option screws you over the most is the one that will be pursued.
Sexual harassment doesn't follow logic, so I am sure there is something. Say "Hi" to female coworker, sexual harassment. Don't say "Hi," now you are discriminating against her.
most of it will be quietly memory holed for exactly that kind of nonsense.
look at the women's US soccer team. the media massively propagandized their discrimination case, which has now been shown to be a complete fucking dumpster fire. they lost at the trial court because it turns out they were offered the men's deal and turned it down. then they lost on appeal. then their contract negotiations came up for renewal, and once again, they were offered the men's terms. instead of accepting the men's terms, they refused and demanded their current terms. now they're demanding a rehearing on their appeal, as if there's still a legitimate discrimination case, when twice now they turned down the same terms as the men.
it's well into hysterical screeching retardation at this point, and they're completely detached from reality.
I imagine it’s M$ taking advantage of wounded publisher. Activision’s stock took a huge nose dive over the past year and I doubt M$ has the ability to fill up blizzard with blue haired weirdos demanding unions and causing havoc. Chances are they are going to clear house once the dust settles and put in M$ Yes men who are also blue haired weirdos
The shambling corpse of World of Warcraft just got another injection of T-virus.
My fucking idiot friends are all still playing to defeat each raid tier.
Pulling the same endboss for 6 months (and paying activision $100+ in monthly fees to do so) while you're not having any fun isn't normal.
Raiding is actually fun though. And it's 15$/month, which you can bump down to 0$/month selling carries.
Yeah, I keep subscription running, because I have enough ingame gold to keep a subscription running for 20 years (of course it won't last that long with ingame inflation, but you get the idea).
And it's a decent activity that I enjoy doing while watching some soccer games.
Then I clear the LFR raid (not really interested in organized raiding anymore) and do 1-2 M+ a week (KSM is my goal, which I usually get).
I get maybe 2 hours / week out of WoW, more when new content releases. And as I said - it's free.
Ha, jokes on you Microsoft WoW is already dead.
I'm so glad I sold my short ATVI. I bet I would have got margin called today.
If WoW wasn't pure shit right now, no one would have cared one iota about the lawsuit thing and the one guy who harassed the one girl.
The whole thing was a huge conduit for people's frustration at the games themselves.
Wow might be worth it if it was included in gamepass.
There was never any doubt. But Microsoft being involved is an interesting theory.
If Kotick stays, I'd say it's not true.
So, yeah. I'd say Microsoft wasn't involved unless even Kotick himself was involved.
I sold mine (unfortunately) at $43, but that was a while ago (and still at a gain from where I picked them up).
No one cares or is interested in your stock trades. Everyone owns and trades stocks these days, it is like mentioning you own a dishwasher. You come off like some FOB Indian.
I warned you against buying the albanian mail order bride
That got me.
See, this was funny. That other one was just shit.
I'll have you know I am what they call a stock trader. I am kind of a big deal, I trade stocks. You mentioned dishwashers, I just bought some Whirlpool stock. I am hoping to make a pretty good profit off of it.
I wouldn't recommend Whirlpool. Products are low quality.
I'm just saying it because I mentioned I was shorting them not too long ago.
If you don't care, don't say anything?
My goal was to shame you into making fewer shitty comments mentioning your stocks. I'd even take you replying to my comments less. That is how first world society works. It was probably naive since you are shameless and treat this community as your personal blog.
This is fucking huge for the industry
This is supposed to make me want to buy a gamepass?
I know we should be concerned about large mega-corporations, but Activision is such a plague on the games industry, that anything that would kick Bobby Kotick out is only a net gain.
Cool. Can they fix the fucking bugs in Warzone now?
That's a really shitty investment.
Glad I sold.all.my WOW toons.
Considering the mess Activision is... I wonder if this is going to be an improvement or just more shit.
Now those sexual harassment allegation are looking mighty sus.
No idea if they are still following that rule, but they do have it. And yes, I can imagine it, after all we live in $CurrentYear and crazy is the norm :/
This is what happens if a sexual asshole company gets bought out by M$ Failblows corp.
This is pure laughable in its entirety. On the downside... hmm yeah, M$ is getting morbidly obese now.