How un-American would that be? Holding bad management accountable instead of doubling down?? 

And for those against it, there’s no way MS would cut off CoD from PS now as it would prove Sony right and potentially block any future acquisitions that MS might want to make.

“Hi, rather than compete, we’re going to just buy out our competitors. Then when someone has something worth competing against us with, we’ll just buy them before they can get market share.”

Monopolies *never* benefit consumers. 

You are right in one respect. Business monopolies aren’t like the board game.

They are much, much worse.  

They are allowing the largest software company in the world, and the third largest company in the world by market cap, to purchase the largest game software company in the US (non first party).  That is fucking horrible.

When has MS ever been blocked?  This was always going to go this way, hell even if the court ruling had gone the other way, it just meant that the FTC could continue their review.  MS should have been forced to seperate internet explorer from windows installations in the US in the 90s.  It took google literally giving…

Yeah this might be better for Xbox and Activision Blizzard in the short term but consolidation - especially on this scale - is basically never good in the long run. My only hope is that this doesn’t set off a wave of other major acquisitions, because while I don’t really care about Activision Blizzard as a company, I…

Mergers and acquisitions of any kind are a net negative for the regular consumer. Call of Duty is on the way to exclusivity and that means a required Xbox purchase if not this gen, then next gen for 1 million+.

I don’t think Sony is going anywhere. The only losers here are the gamers. 

Can someone explain how the record shows that we can expect more consumer access to activision content like the judge said?

That is an iconic shot from the movie.

Yes yes yes. I am not sheepish in my support of piracy. I won’t go into every point defending it, but suffice it to say that it has never been proven that piracy harms the sale of legitimate media. As such, there is no possible argument against piracy aside from “it’s not right”. It is not theft. It is not…

Here’s to piracy. It’s really the only reason why video games from the 80s & 90s are still available to play. Want to play that arcade game you spent way too many quarters on back in the day? Piracy lets you do that. Want to play a beloved Atari or Sega Master System game? Piracy lets you do that. The companies that…

I’d also like to mention the trend with Manufacturers and dealerships:

Dealership: Orders everything in black, white, and gray. Pushes sales on the cars they have in stock.
Manufacturer: *arms up in the air* Hmmm, I guess people don’t want to buy colorful cars, let’s stop offering colorful cars.

You can get a tesla model 3 for 32k after the federal rebate. Thats the cost of a camry. There is nothing unique about EV’s when it comes to data. What you are saying makes no sense

This. Can’t wait until manufacturers overreact and we are swamped in well-built economy cars and compact pickups with no unwanted features in six years’ time.

Weird. Normal people don’t want to buy a $50k car with 7% interest rates, tech that’s outdated faster than a modern smartphone, a business model that’s constantly pushing microservices, and tracks all your movements with no way to opt out or find out where that information is going?

“for being outraged that people reckoned that a person who habitually performs racial caricatures might have performed another one.”

Not a thing that is happening but your insistence that it is is one of the reasons why people think you are an asshole!

Yeah, I hate this lady, but I don't need made up reasons. 

“So it's not actually blackface, but still though" is the most AV Club thing I've ever seen on AV Club.