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Gamepass bros it wasn't supposed to be like this....
Europoors can't do anything.
Cope, amerislave.
It's fricked m8.
Microsoft was counting on the EU approving the transaction so they could just tell the FTC to go frick themselves and close the deal.
Now they're fricked on both sides and have no out.
That's what Apple said too
Get frickered Xjeets
Why is it that Europe actually has representatives that actually do shit to protect consumers and fight monopolies while the US government wouldn’t dare do shit to a corporation?
America is globohomosexual central and the chosen israeli golems
Is this Berserk? Wtf, I don't remember the demons during the eclipse looking this human, weren't they fricked up abominations that looked like wienerroaches and shit?
this was before they transformed, they are apostles so they have both a "human" and a monstrous form
thanks anon
Because mutts are corporate israelite slaves.
It is also thanks to EVROPA that Steam and the king israelite Gaben had to buck down and kneel and offer the fricking refund system to the consumers.
>It is also thanks to EVROPA that Steam and the king israelite Gaben had to buck down and kneel and offer the fricking refund system to the consumers.
I thought that was Australia?
It was, that anon is a moron
It wasn't. It was thanks to Europe. France in particular.
Why doesn't Europe go after Nintendo then? They have a non-existent refund policy
Used/activated/whatever digital goods are exempt from the EU refund laws. Nintendo isn't doing anything wrong there.
How are steam games any more "used" than digital Nintendo games? That's just bullshit
Both are shit, anon, corporations aren't your friends. Both Sony and Microsoft have paid to have exclusives (temporary or otherwise), Microsoft introduced paid online subscription into the mainstream, Sony had shit like asking for money when players from other consoles played with playstation owners (which is why you saw cross play games not working with playstation) as well as the moronic censorship shit.
Doesn't mean I want Microsoft to be the Disney of gaming, and I certainly don't want the deal to go through, but it has nothing to do with them being more or less evil than Sony, because they are all shit in their own way.
>did a little research and never bought shit games
>sales boring as frick without flash sales
Yeah, frick you for that too, europe.
The benefit of having more than essentially one party in government.
Euro here. It's not always good and sometimes they pass some absurdly moronic laws.
Name some of them
The Tobacco Products Directive / Regulations.
It arbitrarily restricts e-cigarettes to a 2ml capacity of liquid and restricts nicotine-containing e-liquids to 10ml bottles. This generates huge quantities of additional plastic waste, and causes users to have to refill their devices far more frequently than they did before the regulations came into force.
Good. They should outlaw all tobacco products, tbqh. Coofers can kill themselves elsewhere for all I care, I don't want to end up paying for their disgusting habits.
E-cigarettes are not tobacco products. They contain no tobacco, and there is no evidence that they cause clinically significant harm to users.
Regardless, supporting bad laws because they happen to target people you dislike is a very short-sighted perspective.
Go coof elsewhere, narc
I don't have a cough and I am fitter than you.
t. Gankerizen e-cigarette user with elite-tier VO2 max
t.
There was one a couple years ago that said that Cucumber are not allowed to bend beyond a specific degree so you could fit in more into a shipping box. I don't remember how long it was in effect in the end but it did lead to tons of cucmbers being thrown away until they finally rescinded it.
Customer protection is all well and good, but they do sometimes frick it up beyond any reasonable degree.
For one there is the whole rapefugee thing, where Germany basically dictates everyone else to take in thankless Black folk to leech off of social welfare.
Further, technology is kinda dying thanks to their data protection laws. There are no noteworthy AI projects born in Europe compared to the US and China, and despite that both the US and China still most definitely have mined all your data anyways.
Also, let's not get started with the fact that it is basically the place where most parties send the politicians they no longer want but who know too much.
Oh, and then there is the Strassbourg-Brussels moronicness.
Banning the use of certain colors in tattoos.
Very rarely. But it does happen. The worst part is that there's no direct representation from the people, it's all just a bunch of parties that decide who gets to decide stuff. However, for laws they do listen to the whole industry and anyone that wants to come forward.
>It's not always good and sometimes they pass some absurdly moronic laws.
That is true for every country.
>That is true for every country.
The EU isn't a single country, so you end up with laws that benefit one or a couple of countries while the rest have to pay for it. It's actually a lot worse.
Wasn't it US that was opposing the deal to begin with though?
>Why is it that Europe actually has representatives that actually do shit to protect consumers
Like force them to get untested science juice injections?
Zero COVID vaccine tens. Millions of COVID deaths. Get over anti vaxxer, you lost.
>Zero COVID vaccine tens.
kek the vax melted your brain
>no u
Sorry bros, playground comebacks don't work in science.
>Zero COVID vaccine tens.
Gotta get that brain bloodclot sorted bro.
Unrestricted internet access was a mistake
thank you, commissar
European here, no mandates. My entire family remains unvaxxed (from everything, not just covid). We've all had the coof a couple of times each, mild flu symptoms.
Ironically we lost our family doctor, who died within 48 hours of getting the shot. Well, we haven't gone to his office in 20 years anyways.
>while the US government wouldn’t dare do shit to a corporation?
Because America runs on profits.
Literally any questionable action boils down to that answer.
No universal healthcare? Gets in the way of profits
Kinder Eggs are illegal? Profits.
Why are gun laws so lax? Profits.
High Fructose Corn Syrup in every fricking food? PROFITS!!!!
>High Fructose Corn Syrup in every fricking food? PROFITS!!!!
Actually, it's because of agricultural subsidies to corn farmers, which are a strategic choice, not an economic one. It costs the US taxpayer tens of billions of dollars to prop up corn farmers, and the excess corn has to be used for something, hence the replacement of cane/beet sugar with HFCS.
It also helps that HFCS can have similar effects on people the same way cocaine and nicotine have.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/693088
>Why are gun laws so lax? Profits.
You mean liberty
woman level mental laziness
All the us politicians are stock holders.
>Why is it that Europe actually has representatives that actually do shit to protect consumers
How does this protect consumers?
By keeping competition in a market rather than just letting MS buy every company in the market?
what a fricking nice job they did i should say
>only let Tencent do it, we are antiamerican here, not antichinese
>He thinks this is about protecting consumers.
>Doesn't even acknowledge governments cannot fight Monopolies because they themselves are monopolies
Why would I want to buy a TV in 2023? Like, a TV, really? What is this, the 90s?
>Very high end 8k tvs no longer pass consumption regulations bc of energy crisis and shit
>EUROPE BANS TVS
>Self imposed energy crisis
>Europe representatives
>protect consumers and fight monopolies
hahaha that was a good one anon
EU made it so that any European citizen can contact any company in the world and request to get every single piece of data that they have on them, and then also ask them to get it deleted.
Go ahead and try that in the US, and they will just laugh at you.
are you fricking moronic or what? they are there just to be a burn out our money, they are useless
You can monopolize markets, not product IP. If Microsoft had a monopoly on video games, sure, but the idea of having a monopoly on Call of Duty games is asinine. Especially when you aren't underage like most of Ganker, and understand how fragile IP value really is. Call of Duty is one Halo 4 away from irrelevance.
>protect consumers
you fricking Black folk from the other part of the ocean should not concern with our problem because you big mouth frickface don't know shit about us
>you fricking Black folk
Your country is responsible for 99% of Black person shit across the planet.
>Your country
First, europe is not a fricking country you moron, second even if we did i don't fricking care they deserved it, third, your kind should frick off from our continent for the rest of this century and beyond and 98% of our problems would be solved in a day
>our problem
But Microsoft wants to do business in Europe? They have to abide by their laws.
Why do you guys act like these places don't want [company] to do business in their countries?
>Europe actually has representatives that actually do shit to protect consumers
Italian here, you're an absolute fricking moron and should an hero.
You act as if MS won't just stomp the EU like they do everyone else.
>20 trillion market
>stomp the EU
yeah thats good and all until they roll out censorship and mass surveillance.
Political pluralism. Imagine you have 27 political parties in power and some of them are polar opposites.
>destroys the auto industry
Eh nothing personnel goyrupean
German autism is ingrained into the Ordoliberal system that makes up the EU. The rules are the rules and you must follow them, the Commission doesn't give a frick who you are. Market abuse is not tolerated. There is also a massive incentive to go after them as the EU can fine the likes of M$ billions. All to be spent on shit like hotel trips for your parliamentary assistant/mistress and €60 roast duck for brunch, washed down with wine or beer.
Because we killed 6 million.
Americans treat many big corporations as sports teams and they cheer or defend them quite aggressively. I'm guessing it's a culture thing?
MS and Actbliz are both HQed in the US though?
They both do business in the EU, so they also have to adhere to European Trade laws.
Doesn't mean they have any say in what these companies do.
Yes they do as long as these companies plan to have any business in the largest market on the planet
You're acting like Microsoft is some small private company, frick off already pajeet ms corporate slave homosexual
thats fine, they'd just have to withdraw from the european market
no big deal right
Holy frick americans are too far gone
Yes they can dipshit, if you're doing business in my country, you're abiding by my rules, because countries here actually care more about protecting its people than corporations having their way
So say EU objected and they merged anyway, would they somehow be banned from selling any products in the EU? Or would they just have to pay a fine or something?
The latter, and if they don't do that, the former.
They do, by international trade law.
So the EU is toothless, gotcha. What a worthless regulatory body. Bans work, fines do not.
You don't know how international trade works. See
The guy just told me, they just have to do it anyway and pay a fine. Fines are never high enough to dissuade a business move that would make far more money than the fine.
There's plenty of things where the EU will outright block/ban things that the US won't follow. A big thing is the whole GDPR debacle for example. Some US news sites don't want to follow the EU rules surrounding personal data collection, so the EU told them that they have to block/ban everyone from EU then.
That's why those "We love our European community, but sadly this content is not available to you" things happen on a lot of US news platforms.
Then they better ban all MS products from the EU if this goes through
>reportedly planning to
so it's not happening and it's made up news.
this european court I keep hearing about from times to times is probably the last hope of humanity
like seriously it always do what a court is supposed to do
t. FTC
evidence:
It's just like what they said, they said they already gave MS warnings and rules after Bethesda, which were a lie.
Objections just mean give more concessions
Im moronic, pls explain why the europoors (and apparently the rest of the world) have any power and say on what 2 AMERICAN companys do with their money and time?
They don't.
The Euros can just not allow Microsoft to do any business in Europe if they go through with the deal, that will never happend since Microsoft owns the OS that 90% of the continent uses but still
>The Euros can just not allow Microsoft to do any business in Europe
The core of the planet would break if this happened. Fricking literally. They can't do this shit.
Do you understand that those American companies have HQs in other countries as they are international companies? Do you understand that they sell shit in those countries as well? And that those countries have rulings on what can come in and out of said countries? And if they don't listen to those they can't sell there, which is a loss in sales and doesn't bode well for the shareholders?
that sounds reasonable but like this anon said
>implying eurokeks will change to linux or MAC only just because the gamer population can't play carlos duty on their ps5
You have to be moronic if you think that will actually happen. MS can't do that shit because again, shareholders don't allow for it, and if they miraculously would ignore the biggest market in the world they'd get sued by their shareholders. MS has to follow those restrictions.
The EU already invested a shit ton in open source software and *Nix infrastructure.
Most servers are already on linux, only moronic consoomers use MS or MAC.
These other countries even having access to buy our American products is a privilege, not a right.
These companies that want to make money from other countries is a privilege, not a right.
Yeah, so Europoors won't actually do shit and gobble up their American semen like they always do.
Companies have headquarters in other countries. Companies want to sell their product in other countries, so they have to follow the law in that country that they want to sell their product in.
Because they operate in Europe and depend on Europe for their revenue?
It is a very easy concept, really. EU(when you combine all of its countries together) is the second biggest economy in the world. When EU wants something done by an outside company - they leverage that fact, stating "any company operation in EU mist do X", so you either do what they want, or lose european consumers all together.
>is the second biggest economy in the world
That is not true.
USA (+all colonies) > China > Japan > EU
That is true, EU is bigger than china
Not anymore
No, no it is not.
Maybe in 1990 but today China has long over taken it and it's definitely not bigger than Japan.
We don't mutilate our wieners
>Two American companies want to merge
>Euroland says no
>"Exclusives"
Fail
>Zune
Fail
>Bing
Fail
>Windows Vista
Fail
>Microsoft Band
Fail
>Windows 8
Fail
>Windows Phones
Fail
>Mixer
Fail
>GFWL
Fail
>OG Xbox
Fail
>360
RROD
>Xbox One
Fail
>360 Kinect
Fail
>Kinect 2.0
Fail
>Sea of Theives
Fail
>Crackdown 3
Fail
>Halo 5
Fail
>Halo Infinite
Fail
Reminder they also killed Rare, introduced paid online to online console gaming, want to strip all ownership away from the consumer by making everything digital-only on Xcloud and Gamepass, and all off their exclusives are mtx-riddled pay-to-win garbage like Sea of Thieves, Gears4&5, and Halo 5.
It's also funny that some of you think buying Bethesda is going to save them. Bethesda hasn't made a good game since Skyrim, the rest of their games can't even hit metacritic scores of 80. Let's not also forget they let Bethesda put the Horse Amour DLC on the 360 marketplace back in 2007. If they hadn't done that, microtranstations and other bullshit greedy DLC practices wouldn't even be a thing today.
Microsoft is the most greedy, anti-consumer, monopolistic, disgusting company there is. Stop defending their shit, Ganker.
The SERIES ASS is an shit cucksole designed to scam the consumer renting troony indie games and 14 year old 360 games like goyim cattle.
If you buy and/or support Microsoft in any way, even ironically, you deserve death.
>Reminder they also killed Rare
So, if Microsoft buys Activision-Blizzard, Microsoft will kill them?
We can only hope so.
>SERIES ASS
>Cucksole
Anon, you need to be 18 to post here. Keep that kiddo slang for lunch time.
They did? Rare's most successful game is Sea of Thieves.
I don't care, shitzard is already dead. I want to see a big trashfire, then I want the industry to fricking implode into itself so that companies start pandering to players and make actual good games.
>Microsoft is the most greedy, anti-consumer, monopolistic, disgusting company there is. Stop defending their shit, Ganker.
But Snoys are mean so therefore Microsoft are amazing.
I actually agree with everything you said anon, but people here hate Snoy so much they'll excuse all the real shit Microsoft does.
Microsoft have been evil since before the release of 95 even, Bill Gates fricked over so many hundreds of people before even finishing his first piece of software as Microsoft
>EUROPE TO OBJECT TO MICROSOFT-ACTIVISION MERGER
If only they cared as much about their people being genocided through population replacement.
Maybe if their people bothered to have sex for procreation purposes, they wouldn't have a shortage of goyim to do work.
>having a kid is too expensive, don't do it
>wtf no one is having kids? guess we have to import a bunch of 3rd world shitskins :^)
>Sony wins again
>Microsoft still has 60 billion dollars to go after whatever else
They will just buy Sony if this fails.
sony literally does everything everyone says microsoft is going to do with blizzard but they're free to do whatever they want
What studios could Microsoft buy for the same price of Activision?
Ubishit and EA.
For 69billion they could buy pretty much everyone. Most of the other "big" companies are only worth a few billion.
What would that change there isn't a single good game from activison blizzard.
>The European Union is objecting to two American businesses doing business with each other
Why are Europeans like this?
FTC already opposed it moron they're just following the Americans on this.
Because toppling governments over business interests is the american way, euros do the opposite.
>All of this shitflinging
>Over COWADOODY
God damn, once people stop buying that shit series the entire console industry might collapse in on itself considering just how hard Snoy is pushing for this. It's kind of pathetic really
Couldn't give a shit about CoD, but Microsoft buying Activision means Heretic and Hexen can come back, especially since Phil directly name dropped Hexen.
Normalgays will never stop buying CoD until the end of civilization.
So these are the sort of posts that phoneposters make...
>merger
You mean acquisition.
If it succeeds Actiblizz is dead, if it fails Actiblizz is dead.
This. Activision put themselves up for sale, MS saw an opportunity and made the best offer. IIRC they were in talks with Meta before the MS offer.
One way or another they're getting bought, and Microsoft is the best company out of all possible buyers. People who think the US/EU blocking the deal is good for gamers are in for a rude awakening.
Always the fricking europeans
jesus christ
>we object
>ok we appeal
>then pay us
>ok
our modern government is so beautiful 🙂
Why would MS x Actiblizz be a bad thing?
Why would it be a good thing?
If it happens, MS instantly wins the console war to puts Sony out of business. In which case we are now down to 2 console producers from our existing oligopoly of 3.
Ummm, tendie sisters? What happened? This was supposed to kill Sony.
With the amount of kvetching Snoy has been doing over "i-if Microdick takes Carlos Poopy away from us our business won't survive!" it's pretty obvious that Snoy as a console manufacturer is coming to an end, ask yourself this, if what Snoy is saying is true then that means that the moment they lose their (singular) 3rd party cash cow their part of the console market will be wiped out with it. This is something that is guarnateed to happend sometime in the future, it might not be in a while but sooner or later that series is going to stop being profitable just like every other "oldschool" vidya series before it
>PS5 sells 30m units
>Tendies: THIS IS IT! THIS IS THE END OF SNOY!
It's like watching actual children fight off the Boogeyman.
Hey, I'm just repeating what Sony themselves are saying in these hearings which means one of two things
>If they are telling the truth they are already on the brink of collapse
>If they are lying they are just making shit up in an attempt to force players to stay on their platform since they don't seem confident that they will stick around without timed exclusives or online FOTM games
It's probably option 2 but nevertheless, Sony is making an ass out of itself with its comments
first I keked at his surname, then almost fell for it, was about to search it
Don't worry I'm sure Xbox can buy Ubisoft now. Woohoo
Actually a better deal, blizzard and Activision a shit.
Guarantee French government would block it, there is always weird laws about protecting French film, music and businesses.
They almost got hostile takeover'd by Vivendi so im not too sure the government would step in, otherwise why were they worried in the past? Someone will probably buy them and if its not Microsoft it will be Embracer.
Embracer definitely not big enough, their biggest purchase thus far I think was Gearbox. It would be more likely Chinese investments.
Why does Europe have a say on whether an American company buys another American company?
Because burger companies want to sell their products outside of burgeristan as well. Read the thread, your slave cope has been posted like four times already.
>Because burger companies want to sell their products outside of burgeristan as well
And this EU objection will do nothing to stop it, you impotent homosexual.
>And this EU objection will do nothing to stop it, you impotent homosexual.
Not that guy, but EU could block them from selling their games in Europe, if the EU is petty enough.
This. Commie Europe can do what commie china can do. Socialism requires censorship.
>could
they won't do anything you Black person
Doesn't really make sense, imagine the EU legislating to stop Nintendo from buying capcom or squenix.
bassT
>IT'S OVER
>not really
>NOW FOR SURE IT' OVER
>but not quite
>OVER NOOWW
>Not yet
Don't you gays tire?
I don't play any of these trash games so I just want to see it busted wide open and bask in all the Sony seethe
Sony is such a pathetic company.
>Leftism dies without censorship
>cries to every big brother and demands they stop their rival from competing
I hate SONY so much
Solving your problems with money isn't any better than solving it with the courts.
>you're not allowed to invest
Not at this scale. Microsoft will just ruin more studios if they never learn to actually run the ones they have.
Maybe Sony should just make better games than rely on addictive skinner-boxes, ever thought of that? You're not defending games or consumers, you're attacking the money from COD leaving Sony pockets and going to MS's.
I don't like consolidation so I hope this gets blocked and I hope all other publishers getting bought out gets blocked too. Microsoft has had plenty of time to also build their own CoD and they are trying to take the easy solution.
>Microsoft after Sony goes out of business
Can they buy EA instead? I don't give a shit about any activision games but I would care about getting to play EA games day 1 for 2 dollars with cdkeys code for gamepass.
Can someone explain to me why everyone is so against this acquisition?
Is it really that world changing for the industry?
Because Microsoft is buying up business instead of making better games. It's anti-competitive behavior.
So do you support when Sony does anti-competition behavior? Reminder that Activision fully wants this acquisition. So it'll be funny how they'll frick over Sony if it doesn't go through.
not him but Sony buying exclusivity is also shit, but timed exclusivity is less shit and that's what they've been doing recently. If Starfield was a timed exclusive I don't think there would be as much objections.
So like fricking Tencent? All they do is pump money into stocks and that's it..
It will hurt Sony. That's it. It's not like Activsion will start making good games tomorrow if MS doesn't buy it.
There's 2 camps of people who are against it. People who are against monopolies and think that this is somehow going to making Microsoft into a vidya monopoly, and Sony fanboys who are deathly afraid that if the CoD crowd moves to Xbox then Sony will get even less games(as if that was possible).
>Is it really that world changing for the industry?
No. People are just afraid that it's the start of a slippery slope that might end up with all vidya belonging to 2-3 big companies in the end.
daddys money situation and EU is shitting all over that retaded homosexual phil
I don't mind stuff like buying Zenimax, 7.5b is in the realm for Sony to compete in but still would be hard for them to do a purchase that big. 70billion is impossible for Sony to compete against, and Microsoft could buy EA in 2 years and STILL wouldn't be the market leader. Its a dangerous path to just let a trillion dollar company use funds from other endeavors to bully smaller companies in a space they are only losing in due to personal frick ups.
They bungled fricking HALO. The god damn flagship and mascot, and their solution is to just buy a new flagship aka TES/Bethesda open world games.
Why does Ganker support this acquisition so much? Bloodborne really did a number on this board, huh?
Over the last 10 years, Sony has had maybe 5 games that are worth playing. They have grown extremely complacent and they need to be put in their place, so they can wake the frick up and be restored back to their former glory.
GoW Ragnarok was great. Not Sony's fault Microsoft can't make good games anymore.
>GoW Ragnarok was great
Here comes the delusional SNOY fanboys.
>GoW Ragnarok was great
Just stop it. It was embarrassing Marvel sludge.
Stay confused and angry when PS5 and Ragnarok keep selling millions then.
But that's what I'd expect from the Marvel audience.
Keep crying and shitting your pants as Sony keeps winning then. Not my problem.
>k-keep crying that our megacorp treats its fans terribly and pumps out shit games
Why can't the left meme?
>Stay confused and angry when FIFA keep selling millions then.
Sales != Quality
Gow 4 and gow ragnarok are shit and this is an obvious fact if you ever played gow 1-3.
t. seething tendie
2018 and Ragnarok are good. You're just mad that your narrative that Sony can't make good games doesn't work.
Yeah it is weird, why are you so angry anon?
>why are you so angry anon?
You are clearly the angry one here considering that you're sperging out and replying to 5 different people at the moment.
>2018 and Ragnarok are good
Meh at best
>You're just mad that your narrative that Sony can't make good games doesn't work.
I liked spider man, it was good
Literally all you can do is cry as Sony keeps dabbing on you. Lmfao. I love being a Sonychad.
>Sony keeps dabbing on you
>I love being a Sonychad
Your beloved company gave you 5 worthwhile games in the last 10 years, and now it's on the verge of tears and pulling all strings possible to stop this Microsoft purchase because they are deathly afraid.
Keep coping. PS5 has all the games that matter. Xbox is just PS5 with less games.
>Xbox is just PS5 with less games
You are so incredibly stupid and brainwashed into your "us vs them" PS vs Xbox tribalism that you think I have an Xbox. You are so sad and pathetic.
>Stay confused and angry
Why would I be confused or angry? You have had 5 games worth playing in the last 10 years across 2 consoles. Meanwhile on PC I have played like 1000 games in that same timespan.
I am not confused or angry, I play on pc.
and it is normal to know that the console and that game sells more if it is very popular among normalgays
another thing is that, instead of comparing numbers, you should compare the quality of the game itself
see how much CP2077 sold and what the game ended up being the first year of release, the amount of sales says nothing about the quality of a game, only that it sells a lot and that the advertising worked well
thats 5 more than microsoft
It all comes back to Bloodborne
There exist only two states of existence. The pre Bloodborne world and the post Bloodborne world.
I don't care if it happens. I'm just sick of watchdogs pumping their chests up and either saying something but doing frick all or just making the situation worse.
Blactivision can't make good games on their own so I'd like to see what happens with big daddy phil watching over them. Can't be fricking worse, can it?
Europe is playstation land of course they would do this
yeah im sure the eu send sony fanboys over to btfo xbox fricking grow up moron
>No, brominated vegetable oil is a flame moronant chemical and has no place in soft drinks
>No, Champagne comes from Champagne (France), not from Paris (TX)
>No, you can not get away with not labelling your Sangría, Vermouth and Glühwein as not being authentic Iberian, Italian and German products
>No, Parmeezan™, Pamesello™, and Reggianito™ are not a real thing and no, you aren't allowed to sell them in the EU
you forgot also cucking apple (third party appstore/usb-c)
Xbox department of microsoft is fricked if they don't get cod on gamepass
gamepass is bleeding money
Well to be technical gamepass is making money, what however is not making any money are microsofts day one on gamepass exclusives
Why doesn't anybody trust Microsoft to do the right thing?
>trusting corporate entities
>trusting anyone at all
if microsoft was a corporal entity i will be the first one to slit his throat
microsoft in the 90s were disgustingly anti consumer/forming a monopoly
they weren't
the whole browser thing was so stupid and the way tech has progressed clearly shows the government had no idea what it was doing
when was the last time microsoft ever did the right thing?
frick gamepass. Exclusive COD would sell gangbusters
humans from an older generation have a memory from which experience and wisdom are created. here's a short list of microsoft's game industry acquisitions before their current buying spree:
>Havok (idle/abandoned)
>Mixer (closed)
>FASA (closed)
>Bungie (divested)
>Ensemble Studios (closed)
>Rare (went to shit immediately after)
>Lionhead Studios (closed)
>Mojang
And that's forgetting messes like gfwl and trying to hate shit in the Microsoft store, as well as requiring more and more checks to run windows
>Fricked up Skype
>Continually fricks up windows
>Made the worst search engine
>Made the worst internet explorer
>Buys out profitable companies and then mismanaged them into the grave
>343
Name 1 time Microsoft did anything right
The GUI for Windows 95-7
>Name 1 time Microsoft did anything right
MS DOS
Solitaire + Pinball
Xbox 360
Xbox 360 controller support on PC
Age of Empires
MS Paint
Visual Studio
MSN
>Msdos
DOS wasn't initially made by Microsoft, they bought it.
>Solitaire
Sure, solitaire is fine but are we going to pretend it's some sort of great achievement? Originally made by an intern even
>Pinball
Wasn't made by Microsoft, space cadet was part of a game developed by cinematronics and published by maxis (yeah the Sims guys). Microsoft just paid to have it included with windows.
>Aoe
Age of empires was published by Microsoft, saying it's thanks to them is puke inducing when Microsoft acquiring the game studio gave us age of empires iii.
>X360
Fine console after they sorted RROD. Paid online subscription bullshit.
>X360 on PC
Garbage, xinput has held back support for controller functionality, only allowing what the xpad supports so you have to do gymnastics to get gyroscope working on PC for example
>Ms paint
Would be dead if people didn't screech
>Visual studio
Garbage
>Msn
Dead
Buying blizzard to burry it.
The amount of morons here that dont know shit what they are talking about uh.
And the discussion is about a rumor from an image OP posted without source. This place is full of low IQ dumb troglodytes.
But I thought Sony was all about its exclusive why do you guys care about multiplats?
>Sony: We're a strong independent company with sick ass exclusives who don't need nothing else
>Also Sony: NOOOOOOOOO, PLEASE DON'T TAKE CALL OF DUTY AWAY FROM OUR CONSOLES, IT WOULD ABSOLUTELY DESTROY AND DEVASTATE US
Sonyland will stop the Burgers.
>European Union objecting to one American company purchasing another American company
What?
All economies are connected in the great circle of grift
i know this is a little complicated for gamer brains, but companies are legal entities so they don't actually exist outside the country they are registered in. to sell products directly in another country, they have to register a local branch which is that company's legal representative. to operate in the UK for example, everything from ms is legally assigned to their HQ in Reading, England. likewise for Activision Blizzard. so the UK has to approve a merger of the two UK companies belonging to ms and ab. otherwise they cannot merge in the UK, and if they merge outside of the UK despite being blocked there, then the UK can take punitive measures against their local offices.
strictly speaking, the companies could proceed with the merger if they were willing to risk losing their presence in the UK. this is technically true of every country where they do business, but most countries don't have the financial relevance to stop a foreign merger, which is why the only real antitrust authorities are the US, Japan, UK, and the EU collective. technically china has a regulator too, but most issues like this are preempted by the fact that foreign companies are already tightly regulated, so foreign mergers tend to be rubber-stamped because china has an alternate means of controlling the result.
Microshills on suicide watch
this worries me, i dont care about ms buying activision because the only one of their games i care about is crash bandicoot but if they get rejected from buying such a huge company they could just gobble up much smaller companies which i actually care about like capcom or fromsoft and ms WILL ruin those companies. apart from forza they simply can not produce any good games. they bought halo, soon as they had to make the games themselves with their own manufactured internal team they ruined it, same with gears. ms is gaming cancer.
>SONY WINS AGAIN
(one) game
>inb4 Microsoft and Activision become US only to dab on eurocucks and finish their deal
Literally no one in this thread has pointed out that this is a normal process. The EU is going to put out an "objection document" before MS can offer concessions to redress their objections, which they were already planning on doing with things like the 10 year COD deal. This is not the same thing as the FTC suing to block the deal entirely.
>EU
>metadoom
>no metaheretic or metahexen
Capitalism always wins
Why in the frick do other countries get a say in American business?
Same reason why America tries to insert themselves into everything else worldwide.
The EU is a bigger market than the US so if they want to sell their products and make money in the EU they have to comply to EU rules.
It's global business, you fricking cuck. Euro money is invested in both ActiBlizz and Microsoft. You should be celebrating anything that prevents monopolisation and creates competition; it makes for better video games.
because those american businesses choose to have their business in those countries as well
they're called "multinational enterprises"
FRICK EUROPE NO COWADUDEE FOR YOU
Did the gajillion dollar acquisition guarantee more money to Activision than sells on PS system, even over 10 years? I have to imagine a lot more morons buy the yearly CoD on PS than Xbox simply because more people have PS systems.
And I want to imagine MW2 did as well as it did because it is a remake or something or just shares the same name as the series' darling.
How come whenever something like this happens that helps prevent a monopoly or tries to mitigate something that's a danger to children like loot boxes etc it's always Europe putting their foot down? Why does no other country or continent care about video games and the people who play them?
Too lucrative to give a frick about. Americans will just default to either vidya bad or parents should be responsible for their children. Chinese just want to consoom. Japanese will say games are subarashii and for minna no ikigai.
Basically Europe is the only region where the government has too much control over corpos and can reign them in. Everywhere else the government bends to corpos. Sadly no 50/50 balance exists.
How is this deal anti consumer?
Is sony admitting they can't develop good games?