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Great news! I'm normally not a fan of mergers but hope Microsoft will do a better job with the Blizzard IP.
Considering Microsoft own Bethesda and they pulled the whole 'xbox and pc exclusive' bullshit. It seems like Microsoft are trying to create a monopoly of gaming companies so they can compete with and try pull people away from Sony. They hate that Sony continues to beat them in console sales.
So my concern is they're going to stop selling things on Sony, such as overwatch, diablo etc. They only promised call of duty for 10 years. I didn't read any other games with this promise in the merger deal. I honestly think it should have been blocked cause they are trying to monopolise the gaming industry and basically force a switch to their game pass or console.
Yes blizz was a shit show. But Microsoft are children who don't like that people have friends other than themselves.
Unlike Sony that keeps launching games on Xbox /s
The frustrating thing is they're both being shitty for consumers. It's terrible that they're acquiring these previously cross platform publishers and making them exclusives, but at the same time, this is what Sony has been doing for a while (at best, they very recently have started doing PC releases but with a multi year delay, which I don't really count as truly cross platform).