FTC accuse Microsoft of breaking promise not to raise Game Pass prices after Activision Blizzard deal

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Zippy Bot@lemmy.zip · 4 months ago

FTC accuse Microsoft of breaking promise not to raise Game Pass prices after Activision Blizzard deal

Truck_kun@beehaw.org · 4 months ago

No one saw this coming. Just wow.

Except for the vocal people that saw it coming, and were constantly shouted down as ‘Sony fanboys’, and Sony this, Call of Duty that.

The Bethesda acquisition has shown all we needed to know about how an Activision Blizzard acquisition would go. I hated seeing every pro-acquisition argument being about Sony and Call of Duty, and promises for Call of Duty to be on PlayStation.

I don’t play Call of Duty, I don’t care about it, I don’t even game much, but when I do, it is PC. Allowing further consolidation of Microsoft and Sony of other games studios is just not good for consumers or the market, it doesn’t matter which ‘team’ you are on.