[x-post] - Microsoft wins lawsuit and will go ahead with the purchase of Activision

The issue here is simple. MS is not the market leader. They constantly lag behind all of its competitors in this market in sales and quality.

Instead of letting the market decide the winner, MS is opening up its wallet and purchasing the largest video game company in the US and EU to make sure that it’s more talented competition does not have access to any of those games past the current hardware generation.

They are using their massive amount of capital earned in unrelated businesses to do monopolistic business behavior. MS only got this passed because the US government is bought and paid for.

I’ll be honest, as much as I dislike consolidation by mega corporations, AvB is such a garbage company that I feel like the only fix is a complete change of ownership, and MS is the only one big enough.

So, my understanding of this is that people are concerned that this acquisition is going to kill off competition?

I'm failing to see how. Call of Duty (imo) is a series that's due for the shelf and a new IP should take its place. I'm not a person who would call them a quality game at this point. There is Diablo 4 and also World of Warcraft where I could see them expanding the consumer base.

I'm probably missing something, but I really don't see the big issue with this one.