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adjl 07/11/23 4:34:58 PM #7:	ConfusedTorchic posted... you mean sony needing to try and actually develop and utilize their ip's instead of just depending solely on call of duty to keep them afloat isn't going to actually make them compete now? That's not "more competition," though. That's just making competitor's products worse, which is worse for everyone except the company employing that strategy (consumers included). This is the same problem people have with the Epic store: It's objectively worse than Steam, and rather than trying to provide a better service, they just buy the occasional exclusivity deal to make Steam marginally worse. That doesn't improve the overall market in any way. ConfusedTorchic posted... contracts have already been signed, so yes, it very much is already planned to change And it's still not worthwhile to deal with the technical limitations. If they're being published there anyway just to try taking market share away from Sony, I expect Microsoft will revoke that support immediately once they manage to end up on top (see: Sony being in favour of cross-play when the PS3 was struggling compared to the 360, but rejecting it when the PS4 was curbstomping the Xbone). ConfusedTorchic posted... yes, which is why it's also a good thing that the terrible people who were running it wont be running it any longer. again, not a bad thing. Last I heard, there were no plans in the proposed merger to oust Kotick or any of the other festering parasites that have made ABK a successful business worth buying, and even if that's changed, I can almost guarantee that there will be massive layoffs (one of the scummy things ABK likes doing on a regular basis) if MS tries to be any less evil because being evil is a critical part of ABK's business model. I have zero faith that Microsoft will remove everyone implicated in the rampant sexual harassment/assault problems, allow teams to unionize, stop crunching teams, stop shamelessly exploiting mental illnesses, or start paying any of the people actually making the games a minuscule fraction of what the billionaire executives get. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:974772050] in microsoft ... [t:80505766]...</cite> <quote>ConfusedTorchic posted... </cite><quote>you mean sony needing to try and actually develop and utilize their ip's instead of just depending solely on call of duty to keep them afloat isn't going to actually make them compete now?</quote>That's not "more competition," though. That's just making competitor's products worse, which is worse for everyone except the company employing that strategy (consumers included). This is the same problem people have with the Epic store: It's objectively worse than Steam, and rather than trying to provide a better service, they just buy the occasional exclusivity deal to make Steam marginally worse. That doesn't improve the overall market in any way.ConfusedTorchic posted... </cite><quote>contracts have already been signed, so yes, it very much is already planned to change</quote>And it's still not worthwhile to deal with the technical limitations. If they're being published there anyway just to try taking market share away from Sony, I expect Microsoft will revoke that support immediately once they manage to end up on top (see: Sony being in favour of cross-play when the PS3 was struggling compared to the 360, but rejecting it when the PS4 was curbstomping the Xbone).ConfusedTorchic posted... </cite><quote>yes, which is why it's also a good thing that the terrible people who were running it wont be running it any longer. again, not a bad thing.</quote>Last I heard, there were no plans in the proposed merger to oust Kotick or any of the other festering parasites that have made ABK a successful business worth buying, and even if that's changed, I can almost guarantee that there will be massive layoffs (one of the scummy things ABK likes doing on a regular basis) if MS tries to be any less evil because being evil is a critical part of ABK's business model. I have zero faith that Microsoft will remove everyone implicated in the rampant sexual harassment/assault problems, allow teams to unionize, stop crunching teams, stop shamelessly exploiting mental illnesses, or start paying any of the people actually making the games a minuscule fraction of what the billionaire executives get. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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