Nobody needs CoD to be Successful.
It’s such a weird take, i don’t remember any platform CoD had impact.
PC was big before, Nintendo is doing their own thing, smartphones were big before and Sony / Microsoft had both CoD anyway
This was just more MS propaganda so they could buy Activision and consolidate. Further harming gaming competition. It shouldn’t be taken as anything but twisted truth for a profit.
I’m conflicted. On one hand, monopoly is absolutely bad.
On the other hand, Kotick is an abusive, greedy asswipe who is directly responsible for some of the worst trends in AAA gaming; the sooner he gets the boot, the better we all are.
My conflict lies more with how Sony fucked up gaming with their exclusive deals for the last decade or so and now Microsoft is pulling the Uno reverse on them, where I as a PC gamer lean more towards Microsoft. That’s the part of this merger I personally like to a degree.
He’s reported he wants to leave. Because he’ll become an even bigger billionaire. But there’s no guarantee that we’ve seen, is there? He’s egotistical enough he may want to stay on.
MS has lately had a fairly light touch on their acquisitions. They just want their profits to be theirs and to use their IPs to push Xbox sales.
But even if he leaves, it’s unlikely MS is going to radically shift their games to be more consumer friendly. CoD and King already prey on children and make bank doing it. MS isn’t throwing that away.
“So, what Valve invested in was WiNE, a protocol […]”. Ah, game journalists; the profession where sniffing glue will actually give you an advantage
It’s amazing how so many people are falling into the trap and arguing against or even in favor of Microsoft’s CoD argument.
A single game of whatever size or importance is not the problem. But it’s in Microsoft’s best interest that the discourse keeps being this lacking in nuance and centered in aspects like this.
LMAO as if anyone needs that shit to have measurable success
