Microsoft has been a fucking blight on gaming. Paid online, and timed exclusives both started there. No resale if we didn’t throw a massive fit about it. Buying up studios to kill them. I mean Sony has their share of being fucks as well, but at least they’re making good games. Microsoft has barely any decent games the last 2 generations, and hellblade 2 which is looking great was a Sony game that they had to buy and make exclusive.

In a sane country there would be laws to prevent this monopoly shit.

In a sane country there would be laws to prevent this monopoly shit.

The problem is that Microsoft is no monopoly in gaming.

They have the money to basically buy any studio they want if they could, Nintendo and Sony included.

Their gaming division isn’t a monopoly, but with their parents funding yeah they could be and that’s the problem. They could buy everyone up and leave them selves.

Their gaming division isn’t a monopoly, but with their parents funding yeah they could be and that’s the problem.

I agree it’s a problem but without Microsoft being a monopoly in gaming, no watchdog will do anything about it.

The FTC was trying to do something. Than Microsoft convinced them they weren’t going to do X if they sold Y, so they let the cloud gaming go, and then immediately did what they said they wouldn’t.

If they didn’t lie to the FTC they would have done something about it than and there.

Are you referring to the ABK layoffs? Or something else here?

Yes, they let the cloud gaming go so the EU wouldn’t deem them a monopoly, they than told the frc they weren’t going to lay anyone off. And a month later or so they laid off 2000 employees while using the excuse it was happening anyways regardless of the merger.