I think you like it because of some women at Blizzard or whatever, but I think this merger isn't for the best in the long run. There's still so much focus on a console war fanboy fest that I'm not sure that's even the war anymore. All the big devs are so pozzed anyway I guess one big mega company churning out garbage isn't much different than two big companies churning out garbage.
There's still so much focus on a console war fanboy fest that I'm not sure that's even the war anymore.
Sometimes I feel like the "console war" is entirely artificially made. Because I've truly never seen a person fanboy over a Sony or Microsoft console beyond "yeah I got this one," but people online talk like its straight up warfare. But it does create constant talk about "muh exclusives" and "muh hardware" to shill those out to create random marketing all over the internet.
Not consoles, but I did have the unpleasant experience of having to work with an Apple fanboy. If he spent more time actually doing his job than bitching about the computer, he might have not been fired after 6 months.
A job that was entirely done on a web site through a browser. The whole job could have been done through a kid's tablet.
It's shocking how much of it has been fake this entire time. People went back and forth between Sega and Nintendo all the time. The sales numbers for Playstation don't make sense.
I guess I should add the people were working for the companies back and forth. The rivalry on the actual ground didn't exist. The Yakuza and others wanted there to be, and I'm fairly certain Sega was using consoles as a money laundering scheme, not an actual rivalry.
And people still go hard with Nintendo vs Anything Else, and even for a while PC vs Console.
No one has given a shit about Playstation versus Xbox since the PS3/360 era at best. They still sell, but nobody is out there getting heated and defensive about it. Things you need for a "war" in this sense.
Its only competition in two fronts. The only two places with exclusive games people actually care about, and because you can emulate just released Switch games on PC and get better performance than on actual hardware.
In the case of the latter, that's an actual problem. Because you might be getting the best form of the game on PC, but the lack of sales will effect the franchises considerably if that method takes off. Especially with Nintendo's hateboner for emulation to begin with.
The main reason I like it is because I heavily invested in ATVI after this deal was pushed back by the UK. I'm a lot richer today than I was earlier. Closed most of my position, I'm not going to wait for the extra $3 per share and risk what I've gained.
One step closer to not being dependent on the enemy's system to keep me hired.
Also, I can now register for Call of Duty Warzone without the enemy having my phone number. Hopefully Microsoft get rid of the phone number requirements entirely though.
I also hope that Microsoft does something with all the dead franchises they now own. Reboot of Blur would be an instant pre-order.
There is no way that Activision Blizzard will be any worse under Microsoft than if they continued to exist on their own.
I know I’m tempting fate with this, but Activision is one of the worst corporations in the industry, and the only way it will get worse is if Microsoft lets Activision continue its current trajectory of franchise consolidation and wokeness.
Oh I understand he's financially separated himself, he had to.
But realistically he needs Microsoft to stay successful to maintain his 'image.' Same reason Jobs decided to go back to Apple. It looks bad for them if the company the built goes under, even if they aren't involved.
I can guarantee you Bill is still involved in Microsoft to ensure they don't shit the bed. The extent is the question.
Will overwatch 3 be twice as gay? Will Diablo 5 be even more boring? Blizzard has been a skinwalker for maybe 15 years now. The only good thing that came out of nu-blizz was hearthstone and they managed to mess that up in only a couple of years.
It’s not a monopoly though. Microsoft is in third place out of the console makers. And they own way fewer studios than Embracer. Their biggest console game they are getting out of this is cod. Maybe this will spur Sony to pay for a cod rival on PlayStation
So the only ones left to possibly buy from the big 2 (as I doubt Nintendo even cares or wants to buy a foreign game studio) is Ubisoft, EA, Square Enix and a few others here and there.
EA would be great for their IPs but their demands for purchase right now are ridiculous, Ubisoft is REALLY infiltrated that you'd need to purge staff to not be fully taken over by the grifters and Square seems like its a matter of time before Sony gets them by proximity.
Ubisoft to Embracer? Quite crazy how tiny little Nordic Games bought up some garbage in bankruptcy court to that being feasible.
I guess at this point I’d prefer Epic and Valve to stay where they are than caring about all these mega devs. Need to keep game development tools (e.g. Unreal) out of the big hands. I wonder if one of them ends up buying up Unity.
I doubt they can touch Valve or Epic, both have their own storefronts and can sell direct plus Epic owns Fortnite that just continues to print money and Valve makes everyone open their wallets everytime they have a sale.
It is pretty crazy. Embracer is a company that I can't decide if I hate or not because Saints Row 2022 is hard to forgive.
Epic seems to only acquire studios that fit in the Fortnite model of monetization. Although they recently bought the developer of Horizon Chase Turbo, fueling huge rumors that Epic is going to make some kind of driving game. I hope it's true, but I doubt it.
If I wanted to guess what Epic would buy next, I'd guess something that nobody will have heard of right now. Something that becomes inexplicably popular from a small studio.
Apple will buy Unity. They're already working together on that trashy headset thing.
Maybe a Mario Kart competitor? I don't know if there's already an actual popular one of those, but you know Epic could make it happen and flood it full of all their skins and crap.
Or, maybe it's other thing where you're still doing the same things over and over again but still refuse to accept blame for your own actions while deflecting and blaming others for things.
In other words, behaving like a stereotypical woman would.
I think you like it because of some women at Blizzard or whatever, but I think this merger isn't for the best in the long run. There's still so much focus on a console war fanboy fest that I'm not sure that's even the war anymore. All the big devs are so pozzed anyway I guess one big mega company churning out garbage isn't much different than two big companies churning out garbage.
Sometimes I feel like the "console war" is entirely artificially made. Because I've truly never seen a person fanboy over a Sony or Microsoft console beyond "yeah I got this one," but people online talk like its straight up warfare. But it does create constant talk about "muh exclusives" and "muh hardware" to shill those out to create random marketing all over the internet.
Not consoles, but I did have the unpleasant experience of having to work with an Apple fanboy. If he spent more time actually doing his job than bitching about the computer, he might have not been fired after 6 months.
A job that was entirely done on a web site through a browser. The whole job could have been done through a kid's tablet.
It's shocking how much of it has been fake this entire time. People went back and forth between Sega and Nintendo all the time. The sales numbers for Playstation don't make sense.
Remember this statement when it comes to politics as well.
I guess I should add the people were working for the companies back and forth. The rivalry on the actual ground didn't exist. The Yakuza and others wanted there to be, and I'm fairly certain Sega was using consoles as a money laundering scheme, not an actual rivalry.
And people still go hard with Nintendo vs Anything Else, and even for a while PC vs Console.
No one has given a shit about Playstation versus Xbox since the PS3/360 era at best. They still sell, but nobody is out there getting heated and defensive about it. Things you need for a "war" in this sense.
Nintendo vs PC makes sense. I consider the PS and XB just part of the PC now.
Between Game Pass and Sony porting all its former exclusives, they basically are. Which makes the idea of some console war even more ridiculous.
Heck with how easy every single Nintendo console is to emulate, its basically a PC thing to. Leaving that battle more "piracy vs anti" than anything.
I don't consider the Switch to be in competition against PC. The strengths and weaknesses are too different.
Its only competition in two fronts. The only two places with exclusive games people actually care about, and because you can emulate just released Switch games on PC and get better performance than on actual hardware.
In the case of the latter, that's an actual problem. Because you might be getting the best form of the game on PC, but the lack of sales will effect the franchises considerably if that method takes off. Especially with Nintendo's hateboner for emulation to begin with.
One of the many reasons why Nintendo is very anti public emulation.
The main reason I like it is because I heavily invested in ATVI after this deal was pushed back by the UK. I'm a lot richer today than I was earlier. Closed most of my position, I'm not going to wait for the extra $3 per share and risk what I've gained.
One step closer to not being dependent on the enemy's system to keep me hired.
Also, I can now register for Call of Duty Warzone without the enemy having my phone number. Hopefully Microsoft get rid of the phone number requirements entirely though.
I also hope that Microsoft does something with all the dead franchises they now own. Reboot of Blur would be an instant pre-order.
Yeh made 75k on 17k worth of options bought yesterday. Today was a good day.
It was nice for threads to stay on-topic for a couple weeks there.
Maybe half-KiA had a point after all...
You mean for propaganda to go unchallenged?
Did anyone post about Elon's plan to block childless people from voting?
Considering how corrupt the UK government is...I believe it.
There is no way that Activision Blizzard will be any worse under Microsoft than if they continued to exist on their own. I know I’m tempting fate with this, but Activision is one of the worst corporations in the industry, and the only way it will get worse is if Microsoft lets Activision continue its current trajectory of franchise consolidation and wokeness.
I don’t think Microsoft will push them to be better…. At the same time I don’t see Microsoft making it worse either…. At least it wasn’t Tencent
I really hope they separate Blizzard from Activision.
At this point there are probably a minority of employees there pre activision. The rot has set in
He's got that vaccine money now. He can buy whoever he feels like.
Bill Gates hasn't been part of Microsoft for ten years now.
You don't seriously believe that do you?
IIRC, he doesn't even own any stock anymore.
Oh I understand he's financially separated himself, he had to.
But realistically he needs Microsoft to stay successful to maintain his 'image.' Same reason Jobs decided to go back to Apple. It looks bad for them if the company the built goes under, even if they aren't involved.
I can guarantee you Bill is still involved in Microsoft to ensure they don't shit the bed. The extent is the question.
Not like they can get any worse.
Will overwatch 3 be twice as gay? Will Diablo 5 be even more boring? Blizzard has been a skinwalker for maybe 15 years now. The only good thing that came out of nu-blizz was hearthstone and they managed to mess that up in only a couple of years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_methods
There's so many ways to read this, and I'm not sure which is the right one.
Monopoly is not good.
Apparently it is if you get slightly richer and a few women somewhere get inconvenienced.
It’s not a monopoly though. Microsoft is in third place out of the console makers. And they own way fewer studios than Embracer. Their biggest console game they are getting out of this is cod. Maybe this will spur Sony to pay for a cod rival on PlayStation
Heck, Sony has plenty of shooter IPs that it can resurrect like Killzone, SOCOM, and Resistance.
So the only ones left to possibly buy from the big 2 (as I doubt Nintendo even cares or wants to buy a foreign game studio) is Ubisoft, EA, Square Enix and a few others here and there.
EA would be great for their IPs but their demands for purchase right now are ridiculous, Ubisoft is REALLY infiltrated that you'd need to purge staff to not be fully taken over by the grifters and Square seems like its a matter of time before Sony gets them by proximity.
EA -> Apple (I would have said Disney, but the amount of money they're losing, I think they're going to join SIVB.)
Ubisoft -> Embracer Group
Square -> Soyny
Let's see how close I was in a few years.
Ubisoft to Embracer? Quite crazy how tiny little Nordic Games bought up some garbage in bankruptcy court to that being feasible.
I guess at this point I’d prefer Epic and Valve to stay where they are than caring about all these mega devs. Need to keep game development tools (e.g. Unreal) out of the big hands. I wonder if one of them ends up buying up Unity.
I doubt they can touch Valve or Epic, both have their own storefronts and can sell direct plus Epic owns Fortnite that just continues to print money and Valve makes everyone open their wallets everytime they have a sale.
Steam sale was so popular this year that the Community Market crashed entirely, nothing could be listed for a whole week.
It was amusing, a lot of Counter Strike traders got scalped buying the fake price rise.
It is pretty crazy. Embracer is a company that I can't decide if I hate or not because Saints Row 2022 is hard to forgive.
Epic seems to only acquire studios that fit in the Fortnite model of monetization. Although they recently bought the developer of Horizon Chase Turbo, fueling huge rumors that Epic is going to make some kind of driving game. I hope it's true, but I doubt it.
If I wanted to guess what Epic would buy next, I'd guess something that nobody will have heard of right now. Something that becomes inexplicably popular from a small studio.
Apple will buy Unity. They're already working together on that trashy headset thing.
Maybe a Mario Kart competitor? I don't know if there's already an actual popular one of those, but you know Epic could make it happen and flood it full of all their skins and crap.
Apple has no reason to buy unity. Unity works with every platform developer, so did epic before they got in a fight over 30% on the App Store
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I've been here literally a day and CuntPro is giving me their welcome.
In fairness, other people also hate you.
TERFs and their simps aren't people.
Or, maybe it's other thing where you're still doing the same things over and over again but still refuse to accept blame for your own actions while deflecting and blaming others for things.
In other words, behaving like a stereotypical woman would.
They can combine their resources to continue to make crappy games.