Fucking hilarious.

Almost as funny as how many here still don't understand what the FTC's issue with the merger is and why they are starting the process of blocking it with this complaint. **** some of you can't even realize that competition is good for the industry and the consumer so by harming the competition in a way that takes one of the few top publishers for multiple platforms off the market means consumers have less choices of where and how they play games.

Some of you got way too used to corporate yes-men chairing the FTC and rolling over on deals that shouldn't have gone through and it really shows.

Fucking fanboys think a government agency is just being spiteful and going through all this knowing full well it'll fail is the height of hilarity.

And when this deal fails those same fanboys will go back to recognizing Activision-Blizzard for the mid tier crap it has always been.

Well if the corrupt Saudi Arabia government AND the booming market in Serbia approve then there's no way some small time operation like the FTC moves to block this.

Crap is crap regardless of who publishes it and Xbox fanboys refuse to acknowledge the fact that Activision-Blizzard is peak shit these days and has been for years and years now.

@dabear:

I see you're still living in denial and don't understand a thing you're talking about. Keep crying about Sony's operation which has nothing to do with market acquisitions like the FTC and other governing bodies give a ****.

@kvallyx:

Don't you actually have to own consoles to be a fanboy?

Or is this another case of I didn't hate on the other guy in a thread that has nothing to do with them so clearly I must be a fanboy?

What a stupid fucking attempt to not address anything. Typical fanboy. Stick to your posts celebrating Microsoft's "victories" of selling more consoles like you're not a total fucking blind fanboy.

You can really tell someone played a lot of PC games in 2022 when you can't even make it through the top list before finding games that released before 2022....

Almost like someone doesn't actually play games and just pulled titles they thought were popular without any idea of what they are or if they are good.

And wouldn't you know it! Their top three are also the only three games they actually reviewed on the list. Super weird. And Scorn is the most recent review they've done.

Resident Evil fucking 2 made this list... What a god damn joke. Fucking game came out in 2019 and the "next gen update" literally broke the game to the point where Capcom had to roll back to the older edition. But sure one of the best games of 2022...

@dabear:

Again none of your fanboy issues have anything to do with it and you haven't pointed out any facts that I've supposedly gotten wrong.

But you are right again in that I responded to you and you haven't had much of a response back beyond "I'm a Microsoft fanboy so **** Sony!"

You really should take some time to look into how the FTC is run, what the group's actual job is, and how it pertains to acquisitions instead of crying because Microsoft had a shit console with a shit lineup and got blown the **** out of the water from start to finish last generation.

@blaznwiipspman1:

Halo has consistently gotten worse under 343 who hasn't come close to matching what Bungie did on the 360. Infinite is the latest example of fucking up what should have been an easy home run to chase more fucking trends.

Gears saw a severe lull following the departure of Epic to go work on their own stuff and it wasn't until Gears 5 that the ship somewhat got righted and put on a better path but you still can't get over the fact that Gears of War 3 ended the whole fucking thing yet here we are doing more... Kinda like how Halo 3 finished the fight but here we are on fucking Halo 6.

You also must have missed when Microsoft shut down their PC development side, shuttered core studios, and franchises like Microsoft Flight Simulator and Age of Empires went away for over a decade. That's not consistent quality. That's literally quietly killing franchises, the studios behind them, and then reviving them at a later date when you need to extend an olive branch to the PC market you completely shunned cause you thought consoles were all you needed.

This is why something like the Master Chief Collection was supposed to be a big deal cause it was bringing all those Halo games that missed the PC to the platform... but then 343 fucked that up royally and it needed nearly half a decade to get fixed.

The only fucking clowns here are you fanboys who can't see the truth for what it is but congrats on being fucking stupid because pointing out Microsoft's inability to manage studios over the long term somehow makes me a Sony fanboy when I don't even have a Playstation or Xbox.

You console fanboys are the absolute worst and completely fucking stupid. Thank you for driving my point home for me.

@sakaixx:

I replay games I've beaten all the time. Literally in the process of replaying Spider-Man, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Untitled Goose Game. I also rewatch movies I've seen before because I enjoy them.

Sure there are one and done experiences but I'd much rather directly support the developer by actually purchasing the game instead of just renting it.

The services suck at the end of the day just like Disney+, Netlfix, and all that sucks because the whole thing is designed to keep your subscription fee every month coming in. I'd much rather just own my media.

@dabear:

I'm someone who isn't a blind fucking fanboy and has seen this deal for what it truly is since the beginning which is why I'm not gnashing my teeth at the idea that this buyout won't go through and wanting to see ill will upon Sony for not supporting this move.

But I'm sure something that the Take-Two CEO says is a good thing totally has to be a good thing. Regulation bodies speaking up against this doesn't mean anything. Just listen to the greedy fucks who have put the industry into the state that it currently is.

You're right though, I misread what you meant on saying that Activision-Blizzard will pull their games from Sony.

I'm sure it won't be a PR nightmare if Microsoft goes back on their word, again, by pulling stuff like Minecraft from Playstation platforms.

The fanboyism over this shit is pathetic so I can see why you're issue is with my pointing out facts and being mad at reality.

It's pretty much bad across the board for the both the industry as well as consumers and Microsoft fanboys are kidding themselves acting like this is anything but an attempt by Microsoft to buy their way into success because creating and maintaining good quality studios to manage all their IP just isn't something Microsoft does very well.

The American publishing arm for the industry is getting smaller by the day thanks to Microsoft who already purchased publisher Bethesda Softworks taking that avenue for new developers off the table thus limiting the creative voices in the industry making it to retail market. If Activision-Blizzard comes off the market that's another "creative" voice silenced in the industry and now we've got three publishers acting as one.

Boy oh boy are gamers gonna benefit from the stale creative powers at Microsoft working on all those various franchises because let's be real the talent that remains at Activision-Blizzard isn't exactly setting the world on fire when Call of Duty's success more has to do with Halo and Battlefield shitting the bed than it does Activision developing something truly good.

It's the same thing we saw with Disney buying Fox where there's one less studio on the market to bring films out and many of those interesting smaller Fox projects don't exist anymore because Disney has no interest in pursuing those sorts of things when their main lineup of Marvel films make all the fucking money in the world.

This might be different if Microsoft had a proven track record of successfully managing IP's over multiple generations but at the end of the day they've really only got Forza they can point to for consistent quality.

Also for those out there who recognize Activision-Blizzard for the shit show it is Microsoft isn't about to fix those culture issues when you hear about the issues facing the studios they currently run and all the behind the scenes issues there. They aren't bringing in studios like Crystal Dynamics to assist studios they created themselves because it's all going so well. They are doing it because the leadership they keep picking is difficult to work with. But I'm sure they'll weed out the bad ones at Activision who have been there for years and years, had a system protecting them, and have established a toxic work culture for generations now.

Nothing about this is good unless you're a fanboy who thinks mediocre shit is gonna turn a so-so lineup around because you're that fucking delusional.