Worth mentioning that at this point I don’t think Sony needs to care about their business relationship with Activision. If Activision gets what it wants and the deal goes through, there will be no relationship between them anymore, so there isn’t really anything to preserve here and Sony has nothing to lose by…

This is such a huge loss. A very talented actor and he always seemed like such a good guy the way he’d interact with the Destiny community. He really seemed to have fun with it. What a bummer. RIP.

Ah, so you’re an Xbox fan...

You don’t think all the BS posturing being done by all involved is ridiculous? I mean, I don’t think the deal should go ahead — it is almost certainly bad for consumers in general — but some of the bullshit being spewed by all involved is so dumb.

Honestly, this is one of the few good/correct takes I’ve seen about this whole fiasco.

Even assuming your numbers are correct, you are completely missing the point. It’s not about one game, it’s about getting all of those people into the Xbox ecosystem. Then MS gets not only 100% of every copy of COD they sell, but also 30% of every other game those people buy. They get $10/month or whatever from their…

No, that is absolutely not true. The economic incentives for MS vs. Activision are totally different.

I don’t play Destiny 2 anymore, so my opinion might not count for much, but I agree with you. The game already has good movement and verticality with each class having a distinct double jump, do we need another movement tool? What does a grappling hook even add? It seems like this is solving a problem that doesn’t…

Yeah, I really hope that they can patch/hotfix this quickly because I was pretty excited for the new season.

I still haven’t dipped in, but seems like most of the issues are on the original map. Ashika Island AI seems okay.

Man, you don’t know what you’re talking about. I am not offering my personal opinion when I say they look at the whole of MS, I am telling you what an antitrust investigation involves. Sony is not being looked at right now, but if they were, they would look at all of Sony too, and how Sony could leverage its other…

Probably worth noting that the update was supposed to ease the difficulty of the bots in DMZ slightly, however they seem to have ramped it up instead. The first couple pages of r/dmz are full of complaints about endless waves of high-level bots spawning and being very aggressive. I haven’t checked it out myself, but I…

It’s the scale. MS is already one of the largest companies in the world and this acquisition is almost an order of magnitude bigger than any other deal in the gaming space since I started paying attention. I think the Bethesda and Bungie deals are the only two I can recall that were even in the billions. I am still…

Whether you like it or not, the scope of this involves MS as a whole and not just their gaming division, because the gaming division can leverage the weight of all of MS to compete within the gaming space. I don’t know why people do not understand this.

MicroSoft big. Also, antitrust legislation doesn’t exclusively deal with monopolies, it deals with competition and whether a transaction will give one party a significant competitive advantage over others.

Yes, they are looking at MS as a whole because MS is a whole thing. They are doing it right. You are doing it wrong.

Listen, I’m with you. Those things were not good either. But the scale of this deal is on a completely different level. Should those things maybe have received more scrutiny? Probably, but just because they didn’t doesn’t mean that this deal should just get to sail through.

But it’s a step on the way toward a monopoly, so why would you give it to them?

Truth. The Switch Pro controller batteries are crazy.

LOL, LMAO, ROFL, etc.