When I was a kid I wanted games to last, as an adult with a huge backlog I find myself wishing they were shorter.

Ugh. I’m really, really excited for this game, but this is the opposite of a selling point for me. I’m exhausted thinking about it.

Ugh, that really isn’t a selling point. It means the maps will be full of pointless filler and chests to fill the space out. It was that tedium that made me give up on AC: Valhalla.

many people aren’t being told and have already been scanned

I love the idea of the van, but the cost is going to be astronomical in the US at first.

“But you guys are just critical of AI because you don’t understand it!”

a. it’s already happening so your catastrophizing is 3 years late

We do realise all of that. But the people who are afraid of this are thinking of the future.

Go and look back at how successful any sizable game studio was before being acquired by Microsoft vs. afterward. Go on, I’ll wait.

Corporations in general are trying to separate themselves from the ‘need’ of human labor and focus on reinforcing that bottom line. They’re completely devoid of humanity now in their pursuit of greed.

Putting aside the fact that “I bought an IP to limit access to it” is a perniciously disgusting corporate tactic that needs to stop being normalized, everyone seems to forget a huge part of the bad side of monopolies: labor getting fucked. This is gonna mean less people in the industry now doing more work for less…

Nobody was making a left vs right argument in this article. That was a factual reporting of what happened in the hearing.

Also, Anti-Trust law is inherently a left/right issue. The Right likes consolidated anti-competitive markets. The left does not.

The trial was a disaster, but I think it’s absolutely hilarious that any gamer still thinks Microsoft buying a studio is actually a good thing.

From Black Mirror episode to real life dystopia in just a month. Has to be a new record.

Well obviously the US IS Suffering from to much anti-trust scrutiny.  Corporations really need to consolidate and grab more power.  I mean, do I really need a target and a Walmart.  Why would I need more than 1 ISP?  I only have one internet.  Clearly the people at Disney should be the only ones making movies and more…

Industry consolidation invariably leads to higher prices for consumers. The only times it doesn't is when prices are temporarily frozen as a condition of approval of the merger/acquisition. Once the handcuffs are off, prices magically rise. Down with corporate greed!

How about we just replace Hollywood Executives with AI? They are already inhuman morons that can only copy the original ideas of other more talented people, so why not just cut out the middle man?

The FTC didn't really do a great job on this, but anyone who thinks this deal is going to be good for the marketplace is dumb

All of the uproar from Xbox fans I’ve heard is, “Microsoft dropped the ball playing Sony and Nintendo’s game of developing independent first party talent over several decades of curating, so if they don’t just buy up the biggest studios right now Sony will win this generation’s console wars!”

Microsoft: so everybody who wanted to play Call of Duty on PC, played it. This proves that we should be allowed to yank Call of Duty from competing consoles, somehow.