It's official, Microsoft now owns ABK
It's official, Microsoft now owns ABK
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Welcoming the Legendary Teams at Activision Blizzard King to Team Xbox - Xbox Wire
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I love Game Pass, but I don't like monopolies. I wish regulators had blocked this. Also: https://www.theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741
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I was laughing at the onion article and stopped- was that really published in 1998 ?!?!? Or is the date also a joke?
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It reads like it's from 98. The references to Blockbuster, Daimler-Chrysler, McDonnell Douglas, and Bill Clinton tipped me off this was an old one.
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Wikipedia says that The Onion has had a website since '96, so it's definitely possible! (Also, TIL The Onion has existed since 1988.)
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I knew the onion is old, but didn't imagine they would keep a website with old articles still up!
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Why not? It costs nothing, appart from transforming the old format into something the current site can work with, or more likely, have the old site support tbe old format.
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Some media organizations have started nuking old articles to please the Google algorithm
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It really is that old. According to their Supreme Court amicus brief: “Rising from its humble beginnings as a print newspaper in 1756, The Onion now enjoys a daily readership of 4.3 trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history.” Seriously though, read that brief. It’s a masterful piece of satire.
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The wayback machine has it archived as early as December 2017, no idea beyond that.
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It's hard to block mergers based on a company involved being a monopoly if none of the companies involved are monopolies or will become monopolies.
Regulators have to come up with a different set of rules to block "large but not monopolistic mergers" without also just effectively protecting the actual leader in a given industry from competition.
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IDK how you block it when it probably doesn't even make Microsoft the leader in the console space.
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How have I never read that? That's amazing.
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