I guess you don’t have a boss?

You know a boss that can fire you, and depending on what state you live in - like “Right to ‘Work’” states - can fire you at any time with little to no reason?

Because if you have a boss, you have someone who can decide your future. 

I suppose you could turn the thesis around on the comment... Why let people fight for our future? Why hire a specialist instead of being a rugged individualist and learning the damn thing for the next year? Why elect people to decide things? Hell, why let anyone do anything for you? From now on, we should do every…

Ah, yes. The standard “I don’t understand how unions work” and “unions are bad because my company told me so” mentality. Union members elect their leaders, leaders negotiate, members vote on the negotiated contract. How is that not getting a say?

I could be reading it wrong, but it sounds suspiciously like someone who thinks unions shouldn’t exist, willfully ignoring [gestures vaguely at the entirety of the history of labor].

It’s not a coincidence that Q4 starts on October 1st and the Studios would have to tell their stockholders why their earnings have cratered since the strikes started.

The comments really prove how the working class has really largely been twisted around themselves.

Nintendo and Sony aren’t consumer friendly. They’re also much smaller companies and they actually built their “indie” studios from scratch long before those companies had any market share or had even published their first games.

Terrible news for games in general.

Man, ignoring all the pervert stuff and just focusing on games, I just don’t get this attitude some people have that Microsoft is gonna shepherd ABK to greatness/right the ship/whatever metaphor. Where have they done that with ANY studio they've bought? And the people who think suddenly old IPs will be revived... when…

This is a net-negative for the industry. Microsoft isn’t historically a good steward of the things they buy. They are the console manufacturer with the least goodwill toward gamers as a whole.

That’s not even considering the shit they got slapped for in the 2000s re: antitrust.  Fuck Microsoft.

It’s also not true, Microsoft sure as hell ain’t friendly towards competition or the consumer. And blizzard being a hellscape to work on does put ms in a nicer light, until you remember that they saw all that controversy as a chance to aquire them. Also they have done nothing to remove Kotick from power so why would an…

“I fail to see how this hurts the industry”

You fail to see how making one single company own the biggest publisher in the entire world, is bad. And then you wax poetic about something about unions.

Heres a tip: It hurts the industry because consolidation of power is bad. Everyone is “ legally prohibited from engaging…

Yeah, ship's gonna get righted into the same cliff the Rare ship dropped.

No you see, Microsoft are uniquely prohibited by law from engaging in anti-union activities, which makes them the most friendly by default.

All those other companies that also engage in anti-union activities? No law against it, also they aren’t doing gaming.

Internet Explorer and its successor laughs in your face!

THIS WEEK, Edge started opening external links within emails from Outlook (and Edge sure as Hell ain’t my default browser). We have 365 accounts at work, sue me! I had to manually go into the obfuscated settings to turn that off; to tell MS to let me use my…

There might be a few positives. So much of Activision has been a trainwreck, there’s the lingering hope that Microsoft might reign some of that in.

He didn’t live through the late 90s and early 2000's with Microsoft trying to get rid of every competitor they had and being the only game in town. He should ask WordPerfect and Novell how friendly Microsoft is.

“microsoft is one of the most consumer/union friendly companies”

this sucks

This is gonna be disastrous for the entire games industry. There is no way one of the biggest companies buying out another of the biggest companies will be a net positive, it’s going to quickly turn anti-competitive and anti-consumer. But because Microsoft knows exactly what to say and what small concessions to make,…