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Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard may go ahead in the United States, as Judge Corley sees no danger of harming competition.

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[-] LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

The good that can come from this (imo) is that unlike Activision, Microsoft discounts their games on Steam according to their age while Activision (historically) has been very stingy on sales of old Call of Duty games.

To my knowledge, there are zero Blizzard games on Steam. Microsoft has been open to putting new games on Steam (starting with the Halo: Master Chief Collection).

So if MS follows it's current practices with Activision/Blizzard games, it could be a good thing for gamers.

[-] FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

In the short term maybe but in the long term it's just another corporation getting even bigger and swallowing up smaller corporations which doesn't work out well for consumers.

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