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So, Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard. How will this affect the rest of the industry? (www.gamesindustry.biz)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That will likely happen, maybe. We really don't know until it happens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You really don't know the history of Microsoft, do you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I said it would likely happen, I wasn't denying it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

We're literally watching that happen to just about every tech company right now. My Lemmy front page right now is "YouTube/amazon/netflix/disney+ are all jacking prices and ruining the services." Although modern MS has a lot going for it, they have a long, long history of this exact behavior. And aside from that, it's just a feature of unregulated or poorly regulated capitalism. All consolidation eventually leads to negative outcomes for consumers.