Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2(www.pcgamer.com)

posted 11 months ago

Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world

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baatliwala@lemmy.world

13 points

11 months ago

I don’t see how a game which was developed pre MS has anything to do with MS fucking up? That’s a soceopathic obsession with hating something, 99.99999% of people won’t think of blaming a company for this.

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woelkchen@lemmy.world

-11 points

11 months ago

I don’t see how a game which was developed pre MS has anything to do with MS fucking up?

The game will be released by Microsoft. It’s that simple. They are free to delay the release by a bit and rework the bad things. But they don’t.

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Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works

10 points

11 months ago

You seemingly don’t understand how an acquisition works

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woelkchen@lemmy.world

-6 points

11 months ago

They control Activision now. No grey area. Just like Microsoft controlled to show full screen ads to Xbox users.

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Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works

7 points

11 months ago

That’s not how it works when major companies buy one another, it generally takes years for integration efforts wherein prior leadership and plans remain mostly unchanged for more then half that time.

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woelkchen@lemmy.world

-3 points

11 months ago

So who is responsible for the fullscreen CoD ad on Xbox then if not Microsoft? Seriously, you’re delusional if you think that Microsoft higher ups have no power to order the Activision leadership around.

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flamingarms@feddit.uk

2 points

11 months ago

Ah, the arrogance of not knowing what you don’t know. Except people are telling you that you are lacking knowledge of mergers, and you’re still demanding that you’re right. So now it’s willful ignorance.

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0 points

11 months ago

Microsoft can advertise for their new properties. That doesn’t require any high level coordination between company leadership.

Anything game development wise is pretty much certainly not had any impact from Microsoft at all. MS is a very slow moving company, and corporate acquisitions aren’t an overnight deal. It can take years to transition old leadership out and implement new plans.

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