The Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger has been approved in yet another country | Neowin
The Microsoft-Activision Blizzard merger has been approved in yet another country | Neowin
The Competition Tribunal of South Africa has unconditionally approved Microsoft's plan to acquire game publisher Activision Blizzard, although it did not reveal the reasons for its decision.
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Wow I didn’t know this was a thing. Hazards of being off Reddit I suppose. On one hand it’s getting to be a dangerous monopoly, but on the other hand Activision has essentially destroyed the core of Blizzard so maybe Microsoft will be better? I’m conflicted on this one.
You had it right in the first bit. MS is legendary for it's greed and general evil shitbaggery. Gaming isn't somehow different from all of the other industries that have fallen to monopolies. Consumers are always worse off after diversity has been crushed in a sector.
Well that's still a weird one, Activision destroyed everything else interesting in Blizzard so that's like buying a corpse.
I'm kinda sad for Sony fans that won't get to enjoy Bethesda anymore. That is the real tragedy of this deal.
Sony made their bed, and is actually worse by using their market dominance to block 3RD PARTY titles from Xbox.