People today think ANYTHING they personally dislike or disagree with is “toxic”. It’s ridiculous, childish nonsense.

Called it the day they opened their “invite only” preorders to the general public. It’s a cool piece of tech, but having to spend more than $1,000 just to get your foot in the door is far too large an ask for most people.

The only reason you find it incoherrent is that you’re illiterate. You’ve made it abundantly clear you have *no* rational argument to make, so instead you simply claim mine to be a problem, yet fail in every possible way to explain how or why that might be.

No, it’s not, and your failed claims of conspiracy nonsense are a complete non-sequitur. I’ve already explained the logic of why this is not a bad thing for the games industry. Your inability to follow basic logic is your own issue.

Not even a little bit. Activision Blizzard, unless you’re living under a rock, has been a notoriously terrible place for employees for years, especially if you’re part of certain demographics. Microsoft doesn’t do or tolerate that kind of bullshit, so for those employees, yes, it’s absolutely a good thing. As for…

That’s not a console war, that’s immature *gamers* jerking off over their own insecurities. There’s a difference.

Your imagination doesn’t constitute an actual war.

I agree 100% except for the end: I have ZERO interest in trying Elden Ring again. I think it’s one of the worst designed games I have ever played, and I’ve been gaming since 1980.

There’s no such thing as future proof. It's a myth. 

Well you make a lovely rant, but here’s a dose of reality: there is no such thing as a perfect system. There never has been. There never will be.

Spoken like a true Marxist: completely clueless about reality, economics, human nature, psychology...

No. A free market system doesn’t even allow for the regulatory favors and political maneuvering that has become the Hallmark of American economics since Roosevelt’s era. What America has is Cronyism, or if you prefer, corporatism. We’ve allowed government and private power to mix on the promise that some bureaucrat…

Capitalism has nothing to do with legalized coercion. You're thinking of socialism and cronyism. 

Who said Activision couldn’t make a switch port? Nobody but you. Take your straw man somewhere else.

Starfield is vaporware. It is not even a franchise, it’s an announced game that has never released a single title. It *does not have* an audience until it has a finished product customers can buy.

Yep. This merger is good news all the way around. It’ll actually make the market MORE competitive, not less, by improving the attractiveness of the Xbox platform, and for anyone who works at Activision Blizzard, things will get much, much better. 

People who believe there is such a thing as a “console war” are the real losers.

In NO SENSE does Microsoft buying Activision create a monopoly. Even with Activision they’re still in third place, there are still two major and MANY minor players in the console market and hundreds, probably thousands of game developers, and their two biggest competitors both have decades long franchises with tens of…

The entire of these challenges are compromised of nothing but weak arguments if not outright fabrications. There is no sense in which this acquisition meaningfully lessens competition on any level. The fear mongering about “monopolies” demonstrates not only the disingenuous nature of those bringing these cases, but a…

They’ve been bought by Sony, no question.