Nope, you’re not the only one. I personally don’t understand how some people are vehemently in favor of this merger and are rooting for it to close. It is never good for the consumer when these big companies merge - just take a look at the other recent large-scale mergers like the AT&T-Time Warner merger and the Disney-Fox merger. These big companies are not your friend. Microsoft is not your friend.
I don’t think Microsoft gaining control of one of the biggest game companies on the planet is good. They can make all these promises and promise all these concessions, but I bet the second they get a chance to break them, they will. It’s engrained in their history - Microsoft’s 2001 antitrust case anyone?
Not only that, but they’ve proven themselves already very recently that they cannot be trusted with mergers either. The Bethesda/ZeniMax merger promised that games would remain on competitors’ consoles. Soon after the merger closed, they announced that games would no longer be made for anything other than Xbox and PC.
I think a lot of people are just too short sighted and don’t care about the ill consequences of this merger - as long as they play on Xbox / PC and they are able to see the new Call of Duty each year in their GamePass library, they’ll be happy.
Nope, you’re not the only one. I personally don’t understand how some people are vehemently in favor of this merger and are rooting for it to close. It is never good for the consumer when these big companies merge - just take a look at the other recent large-scale mergers like the AT&T-Time Warner merger and the Disney-Fox merger. These big companies are not your friend. Microsoft is not your friend.
I don’t think Microsoft gaining control of one of the biggest game companies on the planet is good. They can make all these promises and promise all these concessions, but I bet the second they get a chance to break them, they will. It’s engrained in their history - Microsoft’s 2001 antitrust case anyone?
Not only that, but they’ve proven themselves already very recently that they cannot be trusted with mergers either. The Bethesda/ZeniMax merger promised that games would remain on competitors’ consoles. Soon after the merger closed, they announced that games would no longer be made for anything other than Xbox and PC.
I think a lot of people are just too short sighted and don’t care about the ill consequences of this merger - as long as they play on Xbox / PC and they are able to see the new Call of Duty each year in their GamePass library, they’ll be happy.