It's never been the case. Even the first time the FTC went after Microsoft the consumer lost. Office used to be built into Windows. The FTC said that made Windows too good, so they started selling it. The FTC is & always has been a complete joke.
@@circaen Same with the SEC, FCC, FDA, and nearly every other governmental regulatory body. Sold to the highest bidder like everything else in this country.
I mean is that surprising? It's the US, every regulator and politician is directly influenced by the biggest corporations. Why would they challenge Microsoft in any meaningful way knowing that they'll lose that sweet sweet campaign donation?
I like how the FTC, after realizing that google owns the whole internet, Amazon owns the retail and shipping industry, and Viacom owns everything else, they realized "oh damn, we were supposed to at least look like we were giving a shit about that!"
@@bendy514 fps games are a genre not a product. That's like saying saying a company has a monopoly on horror movies. Doesn't make sense does it? Any other development studio can make an fps game lol. Silly argument.
@@smoldoinks Well, we've got WB securing trademarks over game MECHANICS now, so that strategy isn't as outlanding as you might think. Corporate greed has no limits.
@@ZeraSeraphim well I agree with that. I think the lack of FTC involvement in something like that makes their attempt to block Microsoft in their acquisition even sillier. Also in practice these trademarks mean almost nothing. Mass effect has a patent on a dialogue wheel yet other games have dialog wheels. Splinter cell on last known position yet this is seen in games like cyberpunk and Deus ex and Sniper Elite.
Or both but your attitude allows those other companies to maintain monopolies your argument is basically well bigger crimes happrn so we shouldn't attempt to prevent any crime
@@thiscatania612 no his argument is that bigger crimes happen and they, by virtue of being bigger, should be dealt with first, or else you just appear hypocritical
I love how video games are the place we hear anti monopoly laws being used when there's actually more destructive/dangerous monopolies that actually effect the prices of way more important shit to people, like food😂
Depends on the nation. USA is pretty horrible. 53rd in freedom. Companies have more rights than citizens. I’m not gonna tell you where I’m from because I want you to stay where you’re from. We’ve had foreigners coming for thousands of years and we’ve seen what you’ve done to Paris. But I can get all my food shopping done for $30. Fresh broccoli, chicken, beef, mixed leaves, milk, cereals, spices, toiletries etc The EMA (better version of FDA) makes sure my food isn’t just ‘vegetable flavoured chemicals’ like USA ‘food’ is
@@user-ef3nr1cn4r I wouldn't want to live anywhere else though, yeah it's pretty fucked up here but it's not really better anywhere else tbh. I get free healthcare for my crippling disease and don't have to wait(probably die) in a waiting room for 6 hours when I have an emergency like I would in Canada or the EU. I don't have to worry about getting stoned to death(not in the fun way) because of silly religion based laws for smoking weed for pain like I would in the UAE. I don't have to worry about randomly getting kidnapped or having my town taken over by the cartel or gangs like in central or south america. I can say any combination of words without worrying about criminal charges like in the rest of the world(I mean come on, can people really not handle words😂 racism still exists when you ban the words dummies😂stopping people from saying certain things won't change anything it just spares your feelings). I don't have to worry about war coming to my country for the most part, like I would anywhere in the middle east, the Soviet block or asia. you could point to our gun violence and say it's a huge issue, call me crazy but I'd rather be shot and die quicker than being stabbed and raped to death in the UK😂or having acid thrown in my face in Australia or something. Yeah america is pretty fucked up, companies seem to have more rights than citizens, everything is way overpriced, most people live paycheck to paycheck, there's basically actual slavery with private prisons, the justice system is pretty broken and not set up for regular people to properly use and/or afford, and the list goes on and on lol. But it's much better than most other places tbh, nowhere is perfect and no matter how much pride you have in your country or how much love you have for your country, everywhere is pretty fucked up in their own special way. America just gets the most flack from everyone because we're the ones with the biggest military and economy and we go around intimidating other countries into doing things our way or else lol. doesn't make it right, but I don't make policies or have any power or even want to😂seems like to much stressful work manipulating the world economy and intimidating those countries who don't fall in line, let it all fall into anarchy and burn haha, it would be interesting to see what rises from the ashes, no?😁.
@@killmesoftly3215....what so is rape exclusive to the uk? Also being shot wont kill you any quicker unless its in le head. The entire thing was basically just "america best"
The thing that really stunted the FTC argument was its insistence on explaining the effects on SONY not the CONSUMER. If your going to argue its bad for consumers you actually need mention the damn consumers in your argument. They looked like Sony lackies the entire time and it really harmed what could have been a good argument.
@@TBBudaknintendo is relevant as in terms if sales its higher then xbox, thats another's console, and even though most use windows pc counts as another platform
It's exactly this. There probably was a legitimate argument against Microsoft. But the FTC never made one, they looked like they were just trying to defend the other massive corporation.
Well we’ll strap in and I’ll explain here my good man. The sale was a bargain for three reasons. One it was relatively unprofitable land, two France was a bit strapped for cash and preoccupied 1v1ing the planet post French Revolution and three the position in North America was untenable, they either sold it, or someone else would take it. By giving it to the Americans they kept it away from the British at least and ensured a better transition for the citizens & companies active in those territories. So yea it was cheap back then too, easy to judge in hindsight, but at the time it was reasonable for France and even a bit controversial for the u.s. There rambling no one cares about concluded
Also calling the PC a direct competitor to Microsoft is crazy, considering they’re almost always benefiting from most peoples PC purchase in some way. If anything PC is becoming more an extension to Xbox then anything considering they’ve been trying to make Xbox more of a home computer for a while now and they’ve been merging all of their services as well, with speculation that they’re trying to do away with their consoles completely in favor or cloud gaming and subscription services.
Yeah, that was a weird take by Charlie, Microsoft already makes Bethesda titles exclusives. Sony is now letting its exclusives go to PC, which MicroSoft has a stranglehold over because of Windows. Xbox is just scripting all this sh*t to act like it couldn’t do all of this in an afternoon, what a f*cking joke.
Hard to say, because most PC release sales happen through third party companies like with Steam currently being the main go to for any PC release, instead of the Microsoft store. They don't benefit from that, aside from maybe whatever Valve gives them to keep Steam on Windows.
Crazy how the ftc was so focused on preventing Microsoft becoming a "monopoly" meanwhile Disney, nestle, blackrock, and tencent own the entire world..... 🤦♂️
Tbh i don't really consider pc to be a competitor for Microsoft because they're still basically the biggest company that has a hand in the pc hardware and software pie, so although you could play a pc available game on a non-microsoft hardware it's way more likely that you will use at least some of it, so basically it's the same as saying that "a company i only own 50% is as much a competitor as one that I own 0% of"
Even though they have to use Windows they won’t make as much money because Valve is the owner of steam, not Microsoft. While it does technically help Microsoft overall, it really is a competitor for them and i feel like if they had a choice between everyone using xbox or everyone using pc, they would choose xbox in a heartbeat.
wait they've got a department for protecting consumers? the fact that im only hearing about them now really says something about the state of the world
Well, depends on your nation. Consumers are highly protected in some regions. I’m not going to tell you because foreigners come here enough. We’ve seen what you’ve done to Paris lol. Stay in Africa, USA and Asia please. France has been a lesson to other countries.
Average person: You are without doubt the most useless organization I've ever heard of! United Nations: But you have heard of me. Meanwhile, the FTC: *exists*
LOL no, the Fox-Disney merger had to go under a long review period as well. The only reason they allowed it is because Disney only took movie IP (e.g. Avatar, stray Marvel IP like X-Men/FF) and didn't acquire the News division.
It’s crazy that no one realises that this is going to change everything. Microsoft showing that this is the way the games industry is heading means Sony have to follow suit. Now it’s a race to swallow up relevant developers. Ultimately reducing the amount of variety in gaming even more than it’s already been reduced.
Sony has already been doing this for years. They're just mad cause MS has more money to throw around. I'm not really rooting for Microsoft here but Sony is absolutely no better and has been engaging in the exact actions they are accusing MS of for a while.
@@piedpiper1185 - Sony buys companies it’s been working with for years at least. But we’re certainly going to see more of it now regardless and I’d rather neither company does it. This will change gaming for the worst in my opinion.
FTC has successfully blocked like 3 mergers and broken up a total of 1 monopoly (cell phone carriers) in my lifetime. It would have been more surprising if they Actually won the suit.
This is in no way a monopoly. Indie games have virtually no overhead compared to AAA games that cost billions. I think it will actually foster more indie studios creations
Well I would feel bad for the FTC just trying to do their jobs, but there were three major acquisitions across America and there are still more being looked into right now by massive conglomerates, one of which stands to control roughly 40% to 50% of American grocery purchases. The FTC decided to go after this instead. And I can't really sympathize with them after that. They just picked a fight they thought they could win, they brought their c game at best, and to no one's real surprised they shit the bed again.
If that's true, that's genuinely insane. The business practices of so many companies in the US are unbelievably bad and if the law is that incompetent, I don't think Cyberpunk 2077 is that far off. I give it another 25 years before America is an indisputable dystopia (it already is, but people will still argue)
Ever since I heard that Microsoft was going to wrestle Bethesdea out from the shadow of Zenimax, I've held to the hope that Bethesdea will see a return to form. Hopefully now we might see the same for Blizzard.
None of Bethesdas management has changed, especially if you believe that Microsoft is "hands off" as they claim. Also what about Xbox Game Studios has inspired confidence recently? You could make the argument they haven't released a great game since Halo Reach.
Even if Microsoft has a bad track record with their studios, it's still leagues better than Bobby Kotick and Activision which are straight up evil. I'm hoping Blizzard can have a resurgence under Microsoft after being torn to bits by Activision for so long
That's a reason even ActBlizz employees kinda want this deal to go through. Currently, Actblizz is anti-union, and Microsoft is pro-union. Ntm a requirement of the merger was that Kotick get the boot, but he walks away with a fuckton of cash so he's on record of saying that he's totally fine with it because he gets money out of it. Also, iirc, Microsoft had said that post-merger, they will let the Activision studios working the COD Mines to make games again. We might see a new Spyro from Toys for Bob down the line, or another Crash Bandicoot. Old, dormant Activision games could come back. There's a lot of potential for good here because Microsoft wants games out of these guys, and Activision had put a bulk majority of their game studios on Warzone duty.
Oh boy, Microsoft pinky promised not to engage in anti-competitive behaviors! They even promised to trim my armor for me if I follow them to the wilderness! I love the escalation of corporate power!
Microsoft is probably is the most friendly company to its competitors, Sony and switch try to make every game they get their hands on only available on their console while almost all of Microsofts deals with businesses games are still open to other consoles. Tbh even if they do make it only available for xbox it would kill cod bc most of their players come from play station so stop fucking complaining
@bailey37777777777777 You remember the LiveNation merger? Welp now when you buy a ticket to go see music it goes through them in America and you pay double in fees. Why becuase they went back on their words and formed a monopoly. Money is all that matters
well i mean microsoft has bought a ton of companies because of their ips. microsoft already owns rare, bethesda, mojang, playground, obsidian and hell of a lot more. They have been in the game before it even started
That's what I'm afraid. It's all fun and games now but when every major studio starts to get bought and kept in a exclusivity war... That's when it's gonna start hurting.
looking at disney is like looking at a cuthulu abomination that turns everything they touch to shit. istg idk why no one goes and bring disney to court the ftc likes bringing monopolies down right tf you doing with disney
As opposed to Sony or ABK? What's the difference when it all comes down to it none of the people involved are mom and pop companies. They are all mega rich corporations
@@ABD-pc3jf Not everything is a console war lol. This is not a Sony vs Microsoft deal. No one wants to end up with 2 mega companies that own 90% of the industry
Funnily enough, from what I heard the court case was a riot to witness. The judge was a PC Gamer, and she made quite a couple sick burns with her questioning Also the Switch 2.0 got confirmed by Microsoft and Acti-Blizz as a result of the hearing
did anyone on earth think nintendo was just done with consoles...? of course a switch two was/is going to happen im gonna tell you another secret; there is gonna be a ps6 too XD
Ah, since they had to disclose that they actually worked on Switch ports and Nintendo is already working on new hardware, that they most likely want to release on?
We'll have to see what awaits us. Bobby being gone from the company and axing Activision from the Blizzard title would be two things I'd welcome, given the chance to change things.
@@jeffsroyalbodyguard7642 (Hate to be that guy so I apologize) Well, technically a tech company like Google is larger than Microsoft but your point that Microsoft is massive compared to Sony in an "outside video games" context is absolutely correct. Either way though, I'd argue Microsoft winning was the 2nd best scenario because Sony winning and being given a chance to acquire Acti-Blizz instead would theoretically be worse for both general consumers and the competition due to Sony's insistence upon exclusivity deals, which are disruptive to the entire games industry (i.e. only reason I haven't played Bloodborne and Demon Souls is spending a few hundred dollars on a Playstation just for 2 games is a waste of money). And as we saw with the Epic Games Store, relying on exclusivity deals to make your product "appealing" is less effective than trying to use paper as body armor against a bullet. Best case scenario would've been Microsoft losing and Sony being hit with something to prevent them from buying something like Square or Acti-Blizz either just so the consolidation of the industry doesn't get worse.
I still remember first hearing about this case, and the literal next day after hearing the argument that "Microsoft wouldn't make CoD exclusive" or something to that effect, they scrapped all progress on the PS version of Redfall, making it an Xbox/PC exclusive (Though honestly that turned out to be a blessing in disguise). Edit to add: What do you mean rival company? Microsoft owns Windows. That's their own platform, just a separate division.
I think it entirely depends on the IP. A major IP like CoD theyd probably stand to make more money keeping it on multiple platforms as opposed to making it an exclusive
@@artybrandt yeah except they've already made it clear they're willing to lose money in the short term to gain control of the market. They are currently taking a loss on game pass because they want to force every subscription gaming service competitor out of the market. Microsoft has enough money to lose some now as long as they make more down the line. The goal isn't to just make money off COD, it's to force people to use their services to play popular games so they can price gouge when no one has a choice but to use their services. This is why they've stated that their games will only be made available to PS and Nintendo users if Sony and Nintendo allow GP on their platform. It's an underhanded way of extending an "olive branch" so it looks like they're trying to make games more accessible when in reality they're trying to gain more control.
@@artybrandt Doubt that, otherwise they wouldn't plan to make every future ZenimaxBethesda title exclusive. They don't care. They don't like exclusivity because they don't like competition. So what is the best shot for a MULTI TRILLION Dollar company? Buy out the whole fucking market, so there is no competition and different consoles, hence no "exclusives". The irony of "gamers" failing to realize that is amazing. People ate the words of the CEO and Phil without realizing the actual meaning from a mega corp standpoint.
Microsoft owns windows, not PC. Windows isn't the only OS and the OS isn't the thing that really profits from games. Importantly they sell through third party resellers like steam, and they don't own the hardware companies that profit most from games. Basically you can play a microsoft game from day 1 without giving them any more money than the cut they get from the sale of the game, so it's not a closed ecosystem like when Sony make something PS exclusive, meaning you need to use their hardware, OS, storefront and paid online services.
@@MrEsphoenix Yes and looking beyond gamers? Windows runs basically on every PC in every business, then we have Office, Word, Excel, ONE, all costing money, etc. MS gets their money 5x over if you own a PC with Windows, it doesn't matter to them that you buy via Steam. Why do you think they are a Multi Trillion Dollar Company, 20x bigger then Sony? Also, every XBox Game is bound to MS tech and completely exclusive as well, so that argument ain't cutting it. And if you actually compare Sony to MS, theny ou would see why Sony isn't that big, because they reinvest and build up Studios and create new NaughtyDogs, Insomniacs and SantaMonicas, actual quality products compared to MS who runs everything into the shitter.
Can't you understand that even if you don't like MS, it's a major win for you personally? Government intervention should be a (agreed upon) rare occurrence, in case no one told you that before: The government IS NOT your mom. You'd like to see that merger blocked? Okay, you just gave the government the power to interfere in what's left of the free market economy. You'd like to buy Chinese parts for your small company because it's an economically sound move? Too bad, you gave the government too much power by letting them interfere in every inconvenient merger and now there are tariffs on Chinese goods... That other small company in Canada doesn't have to suffer tariffs and puts you out of business. Congratulations, I guess. This is a major win. I thought that the past 3 years had taught a lot of people about the danger of government micro-managing everything... Apparently that's already in the past because... because... you want to play Halo on Playstation... Wow, thankfully no one died for you to live like a free man... Oh wait, people totally did... Millions of them... Well, I guess being stupid is a good sign after all, it means that the world is still free enough that we allow stupid, short-sided people to live... I guess that's a positive... This is a major win. Every time a government loses, it should be celebrated. They are your employees, not your mom. Drill that into your head. They don't get to tell you or your company what you can and cannot do unless this infringement on your God/nature given Rights unless it's been agreed upon. Do you recall being consulted on your employees being able to dictate how you can and can't run a company? Do you even know why anti-monopoly laws have been put in place in the place? To protect the consumer? How naive of you... It was because companies were becoming more powerful than the government. The government coerced you into taking a totally safe and effective "vaccine"... Pfizer, as bad as they are, were selling it to you... At least big companies give you a choice not to buy their products... If I had to choose, at this point, I'd rather have the world run by Bayer than the government. Are there really still people trusting the government that put them all under house arrest for months on end?! Are you familiar with Stockholm Syndrome by any chance? This is a major win, whether you have the brain power to realise it or not.
Microsoft attempted to buy Nintendo back in 2000 for around 20B dollars, but the CEO of Nintendo said no because he didn't believe Microsoft actually understands the gaming industry
I believe they also laugh so hard it could be heard outside and Microsoft said they were serious about it and Nintendo heads went silent and the sale fail through for obvious reasons
Microsoft is even clueless in the desktop O.S. business in which they have a monopoly! just look how icredibily shitty are Windows Millenium, Vista, 8 and 11 (that is 4 of their last 8 Operating Systems for desktop and laptop, literally their main product) Afwul anticonsumer corporation, this news are horrible for gamers
I’m happy this happened. Any other time a company gets acquired like this I’d hate it. But Activision has proven time and time again how awful of a company it is, morally and game wise, and they needed a change in leadership
@@Dragoonsoul7878This is what I keep saying. What the actuall fuck has Microsoft done for gaming in the past decade besides throw Halo in the trash and throw their money around to buy others? 😂
The funniest part about this is that the FTC kept trying to accuse Microsoft of things that Sony has been doing for decades saying how it’s anti competitive smh. Also Microsoft making COD exclusive would lose them money because of how big the game is. There is no financial benefit making a game that big exclusive to one console
Plus it would piss people off so much they're not going to go buy an Xbox to play CoD. They'd just swear it off at that point. But that's a big part of making games exclusive. They hope it'll drive sales of their console, so we'll see what happens. CoD might not be exclusive right now but check back in a few years when everything is said and done.
Yeah, I'm pretty fed up with the Sony and others have been doing this part at this point to be honest, I've been saying for years exclusives are bad (especially because I had to buy a PS console just to be able to play some games I liked), but people, even Dunkey said they were good because "it keeps the market fresh", Xbox then go ahead and do it for ONCE, and suddenly everyone is "mad" at exclusives and how this is "bad for market", when its been happening for years.
no financial benefit to keep Bethesda games off playstation yet they are, considering 60% of fallout 4 sells first month came from playstation. They also have made models of taking cod off playstation so their is obvious some benefit.
@@stewarde17 The only reason Xbox bought Bethesda was because Sony kept paying for exclusives. They almost made Starfield a playstation exclusive and it would have been if Microsoft didn't buy Bethesda.
The biggest and most important note, is that if they continue to gain power over the biggest titles. Then they continue to literally own ever larger portions of the market. Who's to say they won't use that power to snuff out future game devs
@@user-vp5xf6fm5p i want Sony to lose monopoly power too. I just don't want the monopoly power they have, to be transfered to another monopoly. Ideally, Activision Blizzard would stay it's own company, would release on all platforms, and ideally the same would happen with all companies. But if miscrosoft owns all the companies. Who gets to choose where those titles go? Who gets all the revenue from all those big titles? Who is now able to snuff out competing game companies by not only owning the hardware, but also the software, and every aspect of manufacturing, the definition of a monopoly.
I think the biggest benefit of the acquisition is the possibility of Activision bringing back dormant franchises. Many of their other studios have been repurposed as COD support studios so it would be nice if they went back to work on separate projects.
@@cillcamst2 the old rare people left the company like i dont think they will make another banjo kazooie or something but sea of thieves is pretty good
@@cillcamst2 Your point is? What? They brought back goldeneye, they haven't made a banjo game because there literally isn't a market for it except like less than 1k people on twitter.
I hope that some of Activision’s past franchises and licensed game will be available through backwards compatibility. I’d love to see Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions and Edge of Time available on modern consoles
@@Storedband054 Yes it does. If you want to be bought out, contact a bigger corporation like Microsoft and give them the number it will take for you to sell.
Granted, PC is a separate platform from Microsoft, but the problem is, the most accessible OS is a Microsoft product. So while you may not be directly supporting Microsoft when choosing pc to play COD, Microsoft will still benefit greatly by running COD on Windows, and them taking every step to have you link your microsoft account to cod
There's always been things like WINE that let you run Windows executables in Linux, and now Steam themselves have Proton which lets just about any Steam game run on Linux even if it was only intended for Windows. Linux isn't very popular outside a specific demographic though, which is nice in it's own way since there ends up not being a lot of malware targeting it unlike with Windows and MacOS, but it's actually probably the most accessible OS since most versions of it are free and handle no differently from Windows and MacOS.
@@GremlinSciencesas a linux nerd it’s not a full drop in replacement. some apps and games don’t run under proton or wine. rec room comes to mind, but a lot of games with anti cheat apply - nobody sets up their anti cheat to work on linux
We really need to see change in the gaming industry. I’ve always hated how the big rivalry between consoles was more so about which exclusives each console had rather than one console actually running better and having better features than the other. Hopefully this is a step in the right direction
Yep an industry having the biggest merger in its history is well known to always work out for the consumer. (since this is the internet meaning sarcasm doesn’t exist /s).
I love paying hundreds of dollars for worthless internet that doesnt work, without any competition!!!! Whos the unibomber of my generation (in game of course)
It's really nice to hear this underdog story had a good outcome. It's so rare to hear about the little guy winning. A real David and Goliath story. Microsoft, some rinky dink local business fighting against the government and corporations. It's a real feel good story...
@@joshuamcalistair2787 activision has been steadily losing money for the last few years the game quality is atrocious and microsoft being as rich as it is can funnel more money into game production and it’s big ol dub for xbox players considering COD will most likely be put on game pass
Less companies is almost universally a bad thing for consumers. More companies, by definition, means more competition. The more companies merge together the more power is in the hands of the leaders of each controlling company to be anti-competitive. If companies cared about increasing consumer access to games they could literally make agreements and/or contracts with each other to formalise a way to do so- literally nothing is stopping them. With very few exceptions almost any time a merger between large companies happens it is bad for the consumer, if not at first then a few years down the line.
You forget the fact that both Microsoft and Activision Blizzard are kinda struggling hard. Microsoft cannot make a good game to save its life, and Blizzard seems addicted to holding a gun to their IP's heads. My hope is that not only the deal goes through, but also it results in the produces games not being soulless, stunted cash grabs and they begin learning from their collective mistakes.
Might be, but its pretty normal for industries to start with many companies and eventually consolidate into 2 or 3 companies. I basically only have two options for soda outside of store brands.
Activison and blizzard are the biggest player in the aaa industry along with ea who also tops the best selling games of the year along with activision which is fifa
Sure, in specific market environments that may be the case. There’s about a billion asterisks to the statement “more companies and more competition is better for consumers” though.
@@AliawooYTim sorry, but being bought out by a $2.5 trillion dollar company that as you state yourself "cant make a good game to save its life" is not the ticket to producing games that ARENT soulless cash grabs.
The thing is Microsoft owns Windows, which is the most used operating system in the world, so of course Microsoft would allow it to go to PC, if they own a massive share of the PC market.
Lmao, it annoyed me everytime he mentioned it tbh. It's not like exclusives go to PlayStation or Nintendo. Just pc, which even has game pass. Pc is basically a super xbox.
@@jayblack5942 Leave it to "gamers" to be so retarded, they can't even distinguish that. But let them dogpile on the Sony Hate, because they all wanna play their games. The irony is so bizarre, I wonder who all these MS supporters will blame if Sony will bleed out of the market and we won't have all these Exclusives and IPs anymore, because XBox ain't investing hundreds of millions into their studios to create NaughtyDogs, Insomniacs or SantaMonicas.
While that is true, it's not like many people would buy their games off the Windows store. Steam will take a percent, the same way Sony will on their own store. You don't even need to pay and activate Windows to be able to play PC games
Something people overlooked in the ftc deal is the fact Activision owns alot of IPs that sony used as their mascots during the ps1 era, like crash bandicoot and spyro the dragon. Someone had too of atleast wanted too block that deal because imagine your old mascot releasing a game soley on xbox.
Microsoft can easily make money from letting games just go to multiple consoles, I’m hoping it won’t turn into a monopoly, but as of now this seems like a pretty good thing
@@doginababyseat5127By modern standards, Microsoft is not a monopoly. They were back in the day. But the business actions they took that made them a monopoly are now industry standard. Microsoft today is no more of a monopoly than any other tech company
You don’t let your opinion of the company taint the quality of the news you give us and that’s super cool of you. I’m glad we can see the good points for all of us
also Minecraft was a great example of why they wouldn't want this big of an IP to be exclusive, Minecraft basically prints money on whatever platform its on it would have been a bad financial decision to remove Minecraft from Sony's platforms and I feel like this is exactly the case with COD, it makes too much money for it to make sense for them to remove it from PlayStation and I doubt that Microsoft will actually do that as they can make a ton of money by having it stay on that platform just like Minecraft
@@donhimesamadaifutari Surprised some Charlie fans even know them and are based about it. Quiet frankly most of this fanbase seems to be naive and delusional about the corruption of all entertainment because of black rock and care more about "clean" politics then whats right.
Activision blizzard is such a cursed thing that happened not even lawyers are willing to take a piece of that cake, they could be messing with the actual fabric of reality.
I'm glad Bobby is finally out of the picture in Blizzard. Big monetization comes with hefty acquisitions like this, whether it's Rare or Bungie . I'm still wondering whether things will change for the better on the consumers end.
Cod was on nintendo from cod4 to ghost. The only way to successfully release modern cods on the switch is to not make it crossplay, make it its own version like the old games were on wii. They could just port cod mobile to the switch, that would run okay enough
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I love how the judge needs to remind the FTC that they are supposed to be arguing for the consumers not the corporation
It really was FTC/Sony v Microsoft
It's never been the case. Even the first time the FTC went after Microsoft the consumer lost. Office used to be built into Windows. The FTC said that made Windows too good, so they started selling it.
The FTC is & always has been a complete joke.
@@circaen Same with the SEC, FCC, FDA, and nearly every other governmental regulatory body. Sold to the highest bidder like everything else in this country.
Smol
I mean is that surprising? It's the US, every regulator and politician is directly influenced by the biggest corporations. Why would they challenge Microsoft in any meaningful way knowing that they'll lose that sweet sweet campaign donation?
I like how the FTC, after realizing that google owns the whole internet, Amazon owns the retail and shipping industry, and Viacom owns everything else, they realized "oh damn, we were supposed to at least look like we were giving a shit about that!"
and blackrock and vanguard own everything you just mentioned
@@smoldoinksreally shows how serious of an issue microsoft having a monopoly over fps games is
@@bendy514 fps games are a genre not a product. That's like saying saying a company has a monopoly on horror movies. Doesn't make sense does it?
Any other development studio can make an fps game lol. Silly argument.
@@smoldoinks Well, we've got WB securing trademarks over game MECHANICS now, so that strategy isn't as outlanding as you might think. Corporate greed has no limits.
@@ZeraSeraphim well I agree with that. I think the lack of FTC involvement in something like that makes their attempt to block Microsoft in their acquisition even sillier. Also in practice these trademarks mean almost nothing. Mass effect has a patent on a dialogue wheel yet other games have dialog wheels. Splinter cell on last known position yet this is seen in games like cyberpunk and Deus ex and Sniper Elite.
The FTC worrying about video game company's instead of the company's already in a monopoly is a complete joke.
Or both but your attitude allows those other companies to maintain monopolies your argument is basically well bigger crimes happrn so we shouldn't attempt to prevent any crime
@@thiscatania612 No both are a problem and one is clearly bigger. Go do that weird shit somewhere else xD
@@thiscatania612 no his argument is that bigger crimes happen and they, by virtue of being bigger, should be dealt with first, or else you just appear hypocritical
Microsoft is most definitely a monopoly…
@@WVRLORDnot in video games
I love how video games are the place we hear anti monopoly laws being used when there's actually more destructive/dangerous monopolies that actually effect the prices of way more important shit to people, like food😂
Food medicine toothpaste all mostly owned by a few companys shits wild
Depends on the nation. USA is pretty horrible. 53rd in freedom. Companies have more rights than citizens.
I’m not gonna tell you where I’m from because I want you to stay where you’re from. We’ve had foreigners coming for thousands of years and we’ve seen what you’ve done to Paris.
But I can get all my food shopping done for $30. Fresh broccoli, chicken, beef, mixed leaves, milk, cereals, spices, toiletries etc
The EMA (better version of FDA) makes sure my food isn’t just ‘vegetable flavoured chemicals’ like USA ‘food’ is
@@user-ef3nr1cn4r I wouldn't want to live anywhere else though, yeah it's pretty fucked up here but it's not really better anywhere else tbh. I get free healthcare for my crippling disease and don't have to wait(probably die) in a waiting room for 6 hours when I have an emergency like I would in Canada or the EU. I don't have to worry about getting stoned to death(not in the fun way) because of silly religion based laws for smoking weed for pain like I would in the UAE. I don't have to worry about randomly getting kidnapped or having my town taken over by the cartel or gangs like in central or south america. I can say any combination of words without worrying about criminal charges like in the rest of the world(I mean come on, can people really not handle words😂 racism still exists when you ban the words dummies😂stopping people from saying certain things won't change anything it just spares your feelings). I don't have to worry about war coming to my country for the most part, like I would anywhere in the middle east, the Soviet block or asia. you could point to our gun violence and say it's a huge issue, call me crazy but I'd rather be shot and die quicker than being stabbed and raped to death in the UK😂or having acid thrown in my face in Australia or something. Yeah america is pretty fucked up, companies seem to have more rights than citizens, everything is way overpriced, most people live paycheck to paycheck, there's basically actual slavery with private prisons, the justice system is pretty broken and not set up for regular people to properly use and/or afford, and the list goes on and on lol. But it's much better than most other places tbh, nowhere is perfect and no matter how much pride you have in your country or how much love you have for your country, everywhere is pretty fucked up in their own special way. America just gets the most flack from everyone because we're the ones with the biggest military and economy and we go around intimidating other countries into doing things our way or else lol. doesn't make it right, but I don't make policies or have any power or even want to😂seems like to much stressful work manipulating the world economy and intimidating those countries who don't fall in line, let it all fall into anarchy and burn haha, it would be interesting to see what rises from the ashes, no?😁.
@@user-ef3nr1cn4rEurope ??
@@killmesoftly3215....what so is rape exclusive to the uk? Also being shot wont kill you any quicker unless its in le head. The entire thing was basically just "america best"
Really funny how the ftc will shut down microsoft from buying Activision, but Disney buying any big company under the sun is A-Okay
Give it about a few years, and the ftc will publicly announce its buyout by Disney itself...
@@geodude0744 🤨
The math ain't mathing it def needs to go both ways. No monoplies. Period.
@@geodude0744 I totally misunderstood what you were saying, I thought you were saying the FTC was going to buy Disney lol
Dyslexia ftw
@@AbominationalFailure It's alright, my boy. It happens to the best of us all.
The thing that really stunted the FTC argument was its insistence on explaining the effects on SONY not the CONSUMER. If your going to argue its bad for consumers you actually need mention the damn consumers in your argument. They looked like Sony lackies the entire time and it really harmed what could have been a good argument.
@@TBBudakuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
@@TBBudaknintendo is relevant as in terms if sales its higher then xbox, thats another's console, and even though most use windows pc counts as another platform
@@TBBudak -Nintendo switch-
-Steam deck-
It's exactly this.
There probably was a legitimate argument against Microsoft.
But the FTC never made one, they looked like they were just trying to defend the other massive corporation.
@@TBBudak okay.
That just shows you can be successful without COD, it does not help the FTC'a argument.
It is really funny to think about how the Louisiana purchase costed less then the acquisition of a video game company
Inflation narrows the cost gap.
@@Artyom125but it’s still funny that like the 2nd biggest land acquisition in the world is worth less than one game company
@@Artyom125even in today’s inflation, the Louisiana Purchase would be around 350 million dollars. It’s not even close which is absolutely bonkers
@@TheRealSoftR yikes
Well we’ll strap in and I’ll explain here my good man.
The sale was a bargain for three reasons. One it was relatively unprofitable land, two France was a bit strapped for cash and preoccupied 1v1ing the planet post French Revolution and three the position in North America was untenable, they either sold it, or someone else would take it. By giving it to the Americans they kept it away from the British at least and ensured a better transition for the citizens & companies active in those territories. So yea it was cheap back then too, easy to judge in hindsight, but at the time it was reasonable for France and even a bit controversial for the u.s.
There rambling no one cares about concluded
Also calling the PC a direct competitor to Microsoft is crazy, considering they’re almost always benefiting from most peoples PC purchase in some way. If anything PC is becoming more an extension to Xbox then anything considering they’ve been trying to make Xbox more of a home computer for a while now and they’ve been merging all of their services as well, with speculation that they’re trying to do away with their consoles completely in favor or cloud gaming and subscription services.
Yeah, that was a weird take by Charlie, Microsoft already makes Bethesda titles exclusives. Sony is now letting its exclusives go to PC, which MicroSoft has a stranglehold over because of Windows. Xbox is just scripting all this sh*t to act like it couldn’t do all of this in an afternoon, what a f*cking joke.
They're literally owned by Microsoft same as xbox.. that's like calling coke a competitor of diet coke
I think Microsoft and the PC platform are almost inseparable at this point. Hardly competitors.
Off the top of my head the only xbox exclusive title i can think of is sea of thieves and last i checked it's only on xbox and pc....
Hard to say, because most PC release sales happen through third party companies like with Steam currently being the main go to for any PC release, instead of the Microsoft store. They don't benefit from that, aside from maybe whatever Valve gives them to keep Steam on Windows.
Crazy how the ftc was so focused on preventing Microsoft becoming a "monopoly" meanwhile Disney, nestle, blackrock, and tencent own the entire world..... 🤦♂️
Literally what I thought too. As much as I love disney... they def have to many things.
@@myalizamapike3143Disney isn't even good anymore. It's just political nonsense brainwashing children.
Yeah their like a heard getting swayed around by whoever is controlling the algorithms lol
Herd
Blackrock is practically the runner of the west, keeping the monopolies alive
It's always nice to see the little guy get a win
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LOL CHARLIE? MORE LIKE TRASHIE. IM BETTER!
LOL CHARLIE? MORE LIKE TRASHIE. IM BETTER!
@@dj07677God damnit
@@dj07677no im gonna die 😢 (im definitely not suicidal)
Tbh i don't really consider pc to be a competitor for Microsoft because they're still basically the biggest company that has a hand in the pc hardware and software pie, so although you could play a pc available game on a non-microsoft hardware it's way more likely that you will use at least some of it, so basically it's the same as saying that "a company i only own 50% is as much a competitor as one that I own 0% of"
Thats exactly what i was thinking
Most pc gamers play on windows, who owns windows? Microsoft
Bro acting like anyone pays for their windows copies
@@kitsune_gt Yes and?
Microsoft doesn't control PC.
@@durshurrikun150 it does no matter when almost everybody runs Microsoft software on their PC...
PC is literally like an extension of xbox
Even though they have to use Windows they won’t make as much money because Valve is the owner of steam, not Microsoft. While it does technically help Microsoft overall, it really is a competitor for them and i feel like if they had a choice between everyone using xbox or everyone using pc, they would choose xbox in a heartbeat.
wait they've got a department for protecting consumers?
the fact that im only hearing about them now really says something about the state of the world
Well, depends on your nation. Consumers are highly protected in some regions. I’m not going to tell you because foreigners come here enough. We’ve seen what you’ve done to Paris lol. Stay in Africa, USA and Asia please. France has been a lesson to other countries.
It's better to look at the EU for customer protection rather than the US.
Average person: You are without doubt the most useless organization I've ever heard of!
United Nations: But you have heard of me.
Meanwhile, the FTC: *exists*
Funny part is they don’t protect consumers, they protect the corporation that pays the highest
Disney: buys fucking everything
Ftc: nothing
Microsoft: tries to buy a company.
Ftc: "HOLD UPPPPP"
Yeah what the actual fuck?!
@@MrSpartan993 you wanna get more angry Disney is a major reason you can't just download and emulate old ass games
They saw big number and said hell no. I bet if it was around what they paid for with Bethesda then they wouldn't bat an eye.
@@davidstaffen6783 Oh?
LOL no, the Fox-Disney merger had to go under a long review period as well. The only reason they allowed it is because Disney only took movie IP (e.g. Avatar, stray Marvel IP like X-Men/FF) and didn't acquire the News division.
Certainly can not be any worse than how Activision-Blizzard is currently running things with their company.
sure it can, just look at halo.
@@marcinm2871look at Overwatch 2
But yeah I miss the days when halo had good couch coop
just look at halo, there isnt a single company that was purchased by microsoft, that got better afterwards, only worse
especially since Microsoft wants to give Bobby cocktit the boot
@@douglaswalker7707Halo isn’t a company, it’s a game and Microsoft bought the rights to it from Bungie. You know, the Sony company.
It’s crazy that no one realises that this is going to change everything.
Microsoft showing that this is the way the games industry is heading means Sony have to follow suit. Now it’s a race to swallow up relevant developers. Ultimately reducing the amount of variety in gaming even more than it’s already been reduced.
Soon massive games can be 1 man jobs with the help of AI so I dont realy see a problem for gaming diversity in general.
That's why bungie got such a great deal from Sony. They must've outbid Microsoft.
Sony has already been doing this for years. They're just mad cause MS has more money to throw around. I'm not really rooting for Microsoft here but Sony is absolutely no better and has been engaging in the exact actions they are accusing MS of for a while.
Woohoo, another cool thing going down the drain because of capitalism, love it...
@@piedpiper1185 - Sony buys companies it’s been working with for years at least. But we’re certainly going to see more of it now regardless and I’d rather neither company does it. This will change gaming for the worst in my opinion.
Activision is in dire need of a change in management so I hope really hope this acquisition bears some fruit
tell me about it, their auto-banning bots lol
“They chose all the correct dialogue to get the true Microsoft ending” 😂😂😂😂 underrated statement, that’s funny af
I mean, they literally just had to do the Mass Effect thing where they hold the analog stick up and to the right to pick the Paragon choice every time
Microsoft clearly put all their skill points into Speech and Barter. Only way to explain it.
ITS NOT FUNNY WHEN YOU MAKE FUN OF EDP
@@Spike2276 EDP IS INNOCENT DUDE
@@googleisevil8958 EDP IS INNOCENT FALLOUT GUY
FTC has successfully blocked like 3 mergers and broken up a total of 1 monopoly (cell phone carriers) in my lifetime. It would have been more surprising if they Actually won the suit.
Good on the FTC their like the wizards of the business land every time sensing a business move out of balance they come to challenge it
This is in no way a monopoly. Indie games have virtually no overhead compared to AAA games that cost billions. I think it will actually foster more indie studios creations
Well I would feel bad for the FTC just trying to do their jobs, but there were three major acquisitions across America and there are still more being looked into right now by massive conglomerates, one of which stands to control roughly 40% to 50% of American grocery purchases.
The FTC decided to go after this instead. And I can't really sympathize with them after that. They just picked a fight they thought they could win, they brought their c game at best, and to no one's real surprised they shit the bed again.
If that's true, that's genuinely insane. The business practices of so many companies in the US are unbelievably bad and if the law is that incompetent, I don't think Cyberpunk 2077 is that far off. I give it another 25 years before America is an indisputable dystopia (it already is, but people will still argue)
@@ryanr4361 Billions? You have no sense of numbers, do you? A million is way different than a billion
Ever since I heard that Microsoft was going to wrestle Bethesdea out from the shadow of Zenimax, I've held to the hope that Bethesdea will see a return to form. Hopefully now we might see the same for Blizzard.
Bethesda is still part of Zenimax because Microsoft bought Zenimax lol
under the guidance of master Todd How Tard ?
None of Bethesdas management has changed, especially if you believe that Microsoft is "hands off" as they claim.
Also what about Xbox Game Studios has inspired confidence recently? You could make the argument they haven't released a great game since Halo Reach.
I love his outros. You blink, you miss it and the video is over.
I still think it's weird that Microsoft now technically owns Crash Bandicoot, the original Playstation mascot
I’ve always thought crash was ps exclusive but I swear I remember seeing the game in the Xbox store
And Sony now owns Bungie (Company that made Halo) weird switcharoo
Sunset Overdrive is the greatest switcharoo game
Actually Robbit is the OG PlayStation mascot
Unofficial* mascot
Even if Microsoft has a bad track record with their studios, it's still leagues better than Bobby Kotick and Activision which are straight up evil. I'm hoping Blizzard can have a resurgence under Microsoft after being torn to bits by Activision for so long
Yeah I hope the 'tick gets the sack. That guy is the worst.
That's a reason even ActBlizz employees kinda want this deal to go through. Currently, Actblizz is anti-union, and Microsoft is pro-union. Ntm a requirement of the merger was that Kotick get the boot, but he walks away with a fuckton of cash so he's on record of saying that he's totally fine with it because he gets money out of it.
Also, iirc, Microsoft had said that post-merger, they will let the Activision studios working the COD Mines to make games again. We might see a new Spyro from Toys for Bob down the line, or another Crash Bandicoot. Old, dormant Activision games could come back. There's a lot of potential for good here because Microsoft wants games out of these guys, and Activision had put a bulk majority of their game studios on Warzone duty.
But this is exactly what Bobby Kotick wanted, and he already filled Activision-Blizzard-King with his political friends.
Microsoft is the reason consoles have to pay to play online lol totally not evil money grabbers lmao
@@testoftimegaming5219 don't forget, it did it the worst as well ever when it was the only ones play walling it
Oh boy, Microsoft pinky promised not to engage in anti-competitive behaviors! They even promised to trim my armor for me if I follow them to the wilderness! I love the escalation of corporate power!
Better than Sony at this point
If they lie, it hurts their position with future acquisitions. Part of the reason the judge took their word is because they have honored their word.
@@user-vp5xf6fm5pyep
Microsoft is probably is the most friendly company to its competitors, Sony and switch try to make every game they get their hands on only available on their console while almost all of Microsofts deals with businesses games are still open to other consoles.
Tbh even if they do make it only available for xbox it would kill cod bc most of their players come from play station so stop fucking complaining
@bailey37777777777777 You remember the LiveNation merger? Welp now when you buy a ticket to go see music it goes through them in America and you pay double in fees. Why becuase they went back on their words and formed a monopoly. Money is all that matters
Charlie is the master at saying nothing positive about the things he "likes"
Now it’s going to be a race for which studio can buy the most IP’s to print money
sony should try to avoid a money battle lol
well i mean microsoft has bought a ton of companies because of their ips. microsoft already owns rare, bethesda, mojang, playground, obsidian and hell of a lot more. They have been in the game before it even started
That's what I'm afraid. It's all fun and games now but when every major studio starts to get bought and kept in a exclusivity war... That's when it's gonna start hurting.
@@VoidbleakI mean that’s what the lawsuit was about Microsoft buying it exclusive monopoly.
@@zavthe1371 so you admit that Sony is the underdog?
"No you can't have a chance at a monopoly"
Me lookin at Disney and all the things they've bought:
looking at disney is like looking at a cuthulu abomination that turns everything they touch to shit. istg idk why no one goes and bring disney to court the ftc likes bringing monopolies down right tf you doing with disney
@@siliconhawk9293if anybody tries to take disney to court they will put their family in danger dude😂
How is a private person allowed to buy twitter for no reason, while a corporation can't buy a studio
My only hope from this sale is that Microsoft revives Prototype, one of my all time favorite games.
this would be a game changer
They said they will so yey
@@RiadRiadwhen?
FTC: "You can't do that, it's a monopoly!"
Disney: 👀
The FTC was pretending to do its job. This was a terrible effort on their end, and they knew that they would lose, but hey, they tried 🤷🤷
ah yes, Disney was able to get away with it, so why shouldn't others?
I'm proud of the mom and pop small businesses like Microsoft getting their day in court
As opposed to Sony or ABK? What's the difference when it all comes down to it none of the people involved are mom and pop companies. They are all mega rich corporations
@@ABD-pc3jf Not everything is a console war lol. This is not a Sony vs Microsoft deal.
No one wants to end up with 2 mega companies that own 90% of the industry
@@DerKomischeTyp Your right but the op was talking about mom and pop companies. Which none of the parties involved are even close to being
@@ABD-pc3jfIt was literally a joke, my man
@@ABD-pc3jf Dang, bro has the conversational awareness of a blind banana named billy boberson
The FTC chairman didn’t have a valid law license
Charlie's intros are always too good.
honestly, there is no way Activision could get any worse, so i'd welcome it
lets see how this ages.
I have the milk ready
I’m already at the “I guess it’s technically cheese” stage of this aging. I guess I’ll let you guys know once the black mold has formed.
MS will eventually shut down Activision and Bethesda.
@@WubbyPunch cringey, pun has been overkilled
Funnily enough, from what I heard the court case was a riot to witness. The judge was a PC Gamer, and she made quite a couple sick burns with her questioning
Also the Switch 2.0 got confirmed by Microsoft and Acti-Blizz as a result of the hearing
Source?
did anyone on earth think nintendo was just done with consoles...? of course a switch two was/is going to happen im gonna tell you another secret; there is gonna be a ps6 too XD
Ah, since they had to disclose that they actually worked on Switch ports and Nintendo is already working on new hardware, that they most likely want to release on?
The "why isn't Halo on PlayStation" question was bonkers.
God of War isn't on Xbox either, and Nintendo is bigger than both of you.
Who ever gave u ur news stop listen to them the judge doesn’t play games
We'll have to see what awaits us.
Bobby being gone from the company and axing Activision from the Blizzard title would be two things I'd welcome, given the chance to change things.
Thought he was gonna say something else with the delay on that “N” in “Noob”
His metaphors and sayings at the beginnings of all his videos never fail to make me cackle
“Gamers are the pride and joy of the human race.”
_Truer words have never been spoken._
Nah of we’re the pride and joy the rest of the human race must all be discord mods
Indeed mate, indeed
🤓
This.. has to be a joke. I may be slightly too autistic but I'm split on if it is or not.
@@bambibooza4921 i share the same sentiment with you
custody battle between the psycho mother and the chill dad
Money in pocket case in your hands...
Works everywhere nowadays
This will shake gaming forever. Cannot tell if it’ll be for good or for bad.
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Consolidation has typically gone well in the past. /s
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Modern blizzard is a shill- I mean shell of its former self. Its probably for the better.
It’s bad because now other companies can go for big acquisitions now and that makes mass consolidation
Ironic they're focusing on this and not literally every other example of monopolies happening right now.
And this is far from a monopoly, sony is huge compared to xbox, but no lets ignore nabisco owning 60% of snack brands 😅
@@jeffsroyalbodyguard7642 (Hate to be that guy so I apologize) Well, technically a tech company like Google is larger than Microsoft but your point that Microsoft is massive compared to Sony in an "outside video games" context is absolutely correct.
Either way though, I'd argue Microsoft winning was the 2nd best scenario because Sony winning and being given a chance to acquire Acti-Blizz instead would theoretically be worse for both general consumers and the competition due to Sony's insistence upon exclusivity deals, which are disruptive to the entire games industry (i.e. only reason I haven't played Bloodborne and Demon Souls is spending a few hundred dollars on a Playstation just for 2 games is a waste of money). And as we saw with the Epic Games Store, relying on exclusivity deals to make your product "appealing" is less effective than trying to use paper as body armor against a bullet.
Best case scenario would've been Microsoft losing and Sony being hit with something to prevent them from buying something like Square or Acti-Blizz either just so the consolidation of the industry doesn't get worse.
This reminds me of the Disney/Fox Merger from a couple years ago.
Looks like Microsoft just pulled off a real life boss battle against the FTC and came out victorious
i'm homeless but i'm still smiling
God Bless You My brother your time is coming
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I enjoy your videos!
Bro get out of these comments goof😭💀
@@survivaltipsandtricks4042 nah he chillin
Funny that the FTC said that Microsoft would have the means and motive to degrade Activision's game quality, like it's not already terrible
CoD's been trying to kill itself for a while now
Overwatch 2 jumpscare
@@glitchingeclipse9850 "no more PvE dipsh*ts"
ftc was clueless thats all activation has done. they where out the door as a company. to save there ass they attached to blizzard.
FTC only tries to insert themselves into a situation when nobody asks for it...and then proceeds to ignore every major issue in antitrust lawsuits.
3:00 as a switch player, yeah sounds about right
I still remember first hearing about this case, and the literal next day after hearing the argument that "Microsoft wouldn't make CoD exclusive" or something to that effect, they scrapped all progress on the PS version of Redfall, making it an Xbox/PC exclusive (Though honestly that turned out to be a blessing in disguise).
Edit to add: What do you mean rival company? Microsoft owns Windows. That's their own platform, just a separate division.
I think it entirely depends on the IP. A major IP like CoD theyd probably stand to make more money keeping it on multiple platforms as opposed to making it an exclusive
@@artybrandt yeah except they've already made it clear they're willing to lose money in the short term to gain control of the market. They are currently taking a loss on game pass because they want to force every subscription gaming service competitor out of the market.
Microsoft has enough money to lose some now as long as they make more down the line. The goal isn't to just make money off COD, it's to force people to use their services to play popular games so they can price gouge when no one has a choice but to use their services. This is why they've stated that their games will only be made available to PS and Nintendo users if Sony and Nintendo allow GP on their platform. It's an underhanded way of extending an "olive branch" so it looks like they're trying to make games more accessible when in reality they're trying to gain more control.
@@artybrandt Doubt that, otherwise they wouldn't plan to make every future ZenimaxBethesda title exclusive. They don't care. They don't like exclusivity because they don't like competition. So what is the best shot for a MULTI TRILLION Dollar company? Buy out the whole fucking market, so there is no competition and different consoles, hence no "exclusives". The irony of "gamers" failing to realize that is amazing. People ate the words of the CEO and Phil without realizing the actual meaning from a mega corp standpoint.
Microsoft owns windows, not PC. Windows isn't the only OS and the OS isn't the thing that really profits from games. Importantly they sell through third party resellers like steam, and they don't own the hardware companies that profit most from games. Basically you can play a microsoft game from day 1 without giving them any more money than the cut they get from the sale of the game, so it's not a closed ecosystem like when Sony make something PS exclusive, meaning you need to use their hardware, OS, storefront and paid online services.
@@MrEsphoenix Yes and looking beyond gamers? Windows runs basically on every PC in every business, then we have Office, Word, Excel, ONE, all costing money, etc.
MS gets their money 5x over if you own a PC with Windows, it doesn't matter to them that you buy via Steam. Why do you think they are a Multi Trillion Dollar Company, 20x bigger then Sony? Also, every XBox Game is bound to MS tech and completely exclusive as well, so that argument ain't cutting it. And if you actually compare Sony to MS, theny ou would see why Sony isn't that big, because they reinvest and build up Studios and create new NaughtyDogs, Insomniacs and SantaMonicas, actual quality products compared to MS who runs everything into the shitter.
It's always nice to see more corporate acquisition. Hopefully one day there will only be one or two major players in every market.
Ah, I see, so like it already is?
Can't you understand that even if you don't like MS, it's a major win for you personally? Government intervention should be a (agreed upon) rare occurrence, in case no one told you that before: The government IS NOT your mom.
You'd like to see that merger blocked? Okay, you just gave the government the power to interfere in what's left of the free market economy.
You'd like to buy Chinese parts for your small company because it's an economically sound move? Too bad, you gave the government too much power by letting them interfere in every inconvenient merger and now there are tariffs on Chinese goods... That other small company in Canada doesn't have to suffer tariffs and puts you out of business. Congratulations, I guess.
This is a major win. I thought that the past 3 years had taught a lot of people about the danger of government micro-managing everything... Apparently that's already in the past because... because... you want to play Halo on Playstation... Wow, thankfully no one died for you to live like a free man... Oh wait, people totally did... Millions of them... Well, I guess being stupid is a good sign after all, it means that the world is still free enough that we allow stupid, short-sided people to live... I guess that's a positive...
This is a major win. Every time a government loses, it should be celebrated. They are your employees, not your mom. Drill that into your head. They don't get to tell you or your company what you can and cannot do unless this infringement on your God/nature given Rights unless it's been agreed upon. Do you recall being consulted on your employees being able to dictate how you can and can't run a company?
Do you even know why anti-monopoly laws have been put in place in the place? To protect the consumer? How naive of you... It was because companies were becoming more powerful than the government.
The government coerced you into taking a totally safe and effective "vaccine"... Pfizer, as bad as they are, were selling it to you... At least big companies give you a choice not to buy their products... If I had to choose, at this point, I'd rather have the world run by Bayer than the government.
Are there really still people trusting the government that put them all under house arrest for months on end?! Are you familiar with Stockholm Syndrome by any chance?
This is a major win, whether you have the brain power to realise it or not.
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Nintendo.
Steam.
Mobile gaming.
Sony and Microsoft are big, but you don't realize just how massive the industry actually is.
youtube actually pulling a late christmas gift this year??
wow
I’m happy you played bayonetta.
Microsoft attempted to buy Nintendo back in 2000 for around 20B dollars, but the CEO of Nintendo said no because he didn't believe Microsoft actually understands the gaming industry
Bro that's crazy. I feel like they knew the gaming industry far more back then compared to today, so that would say a lot.
I believe they also laugh so hard it could be heard outside and Microsoft said they were serious about it and Nintendo heads went silent and the sale fail through for obvious reasons
They’re still right to this day, MS have never understood gaming
Microsoft is even clueless in the desktop O.S. business in which they have a monopoly! just look how icredibily shitty are Windows Millenium, Vista, 8 and 11 (that is 4 of their last 8 Operating Systems for desktop and laptop, literally their main product)
Afwul anticonsumer corporation, this news are horrible for gamers
Imagine how fucked that timeline would be. Every Nintendo IP would be a first person shooter
I’m happy this happened. Any other time a company gets acquired like this I’d hate it. But Activision has proven time and time again how awful of a company it is, morally and game wise, and they needed a change in leadership
Because Halo Infinite's out lies make things trustworthy?
@@Dragoonsoul7878This is what I keep saying. What the actuall fuck has Microsoft done for gaming in the past decade besides throw Halo in the trash and throw their money around to buy others? 😂
Even if it means fucking over Playstation players in the process?
@@Dragoonsoul7878, Bruuh… He’s obviously talking about the sexual harassment issues in Activision.
@@PhenomsServant4 Yes, that's the cherry on top actually.
Politicians sponsered by Microsoft will be eating good...
“Don’t tussle with the virtual muscle” 😂 I’m stealing that one day, there is going to be a perfect moment to say that. Lol
The funniest part about this is that the FTC kept trying to accuse Microsoft of things that Sony has been doing for decades saying how it’s anti competitive smh. Also Microsoft making COD exclusive would lose them money because of how big the game is. There is no financial benefit making a game that big exclusive to one console
Two wrongs don't make a right. None of this should be allowed
Plus it would piss people off so much they're not going to go buy an Xbox to play CoD. They'd just swear it off at that point. But that's a big part of making games exclusive. They hope it'll drive sales of their console, so we'll see what happens. CoD might not be exclusive right now but check back in a few years when everything is said and done.
Yeah, I'm pretty fed up with the Sony and others have been doing this part at this point to be honest, I've been saying for years exclusives are bad (especially because I had to buy a PS console just to be able to play some games I liked), but people, even Dunkey said they were good because "it keeps the market fresh", Xbox then go ahead and do it for ONCE, and suddenly everyone is "mad" at exclusives and how this is "bad for market", when its been happening for years.
no financial benefit to keep Bethesda games off playstation yet they are, considering 60% of fallout 4 sells first month came from playstation. They also have made models of taking cod off playstation so their is obvious some benefit.
@@stewarde17 The only reason Xbox bought Bethesda was because Sony kept paying for exclusives. They almost made Starfield a playstation exclusive and it would have been if Microsoft didn't buy Bethesda.
Microsoft: I'll buy you for 69 billion
Activision: Nice
lol this is the comment I was looking for
I honestly can’t see the conversation going any other way
FTC: Wait! That's illegal!
The biggest and most important note, is that if they continue to gain power over the biggest titles. Then they continue to literally own ever larger portions of the market. Who's to say they won't use that power to snuff out future game devs
Better to snuff them out early so Sony can stay dominant
@@user-vp5xf6fm5p i want Sony to lose monopoly power too. I just don't want the monopoly power they have, to be transfered to another monopoly. Ideally, Activision Blizzard would stay it's own company, would release on all platforms, and ideally the same would happen with all companies. But if miscrosoft owns all the companies. Who gets to choose where those titles go? Who gets all the revenue from all those big titles? Who is now able to snuff out competing game companies by not only owning the hardware, but also the software, and every aspect of manufacturing, the definition of a monopoly.
Do i need to mention the bigger monopolies like really. . . We are beefing over games.
@@destroyerscythe1284 any monopoly is bad, it's not like we have to focus on just one at a time. Why can't we hate all monopolies?
What if i told you Microsoft wanted Activision for Candy Crush.
I think the biggest benefit of the acquisition is the possibility of Activision bringing back dormant franchises. Many of their other studios have been repurposed as COD support studios so it would be nice if they went back to work on separate projects.
Like they did with Rare?
This will never happen
@@cillcamst2 the old rare people left the company like i dont think they will make another banjo kazooie or something but sea of thieves is pretty good
@@cillcamst2 Your point is? What? They brought back goldeneye, they haven't made a banjo game because there literally isn't a market for it except like less than 1k people on twitter.
I hope that some of Activision’s past franchises and licensed game will be available through backwards compatibility. I’d love to see Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions and Edge of Time available on modern consoles
1:25 Quick correction: Microsoft did NOT make the offer to Activision. Activision made the offer to Microsoft.
that doesnt rlly make sense
@@Storedband054 Yes it does. If you want to be bought out, contact a bigger corporation like Microsoft and give them the number it will take for you to sell.
The first time I agreed with a furry
@@noahgrimaldo6170 becoming a furry starts with only one breakthrough. You’re already on a path we can’t save you from
@@GusM60PattonNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I CANT EVEN AFFORD A BLANKET HOW AM I GONNA GET A FUCKING FUR SUIT
I love how he still uses "homunculus" as an insult thats awesome
Remember call of duty for the DS? that's exactly what it'd be on the switch
“Judge was even a little bit toxic” had me rolling 😭
Granted, PC is a separate platform from Microsoft, but the problem is, the most accessible OS is a Microsoft product. So while you may not be directly supporting Microsoft when choosing pc to play COD, Microsoft will still benefit greatly by running COD on Windows, and them taking every step to have you link your microsoft account to cod
There's always been things like WINE that let you run Windows executables in Linux, and now Steam themselves have Proton which lets just about any Steam game run on Linux even if it was only intended for Windows. Linux isn't very popular outside a specific demographic though, which is nice in it's own way since there ends up not being a lot of malware targeting it unlike with Windows and MacOS, but it's actually probably the most accessible OS since most versions of it are free and handle no differently from Windows and MacOS.
@@GremlinSciencesas a linux nerd it’s not a full drop in replacement. some apps and games don’t run under proton or wine. rec room comes to mind, but a lot of games with anti cheat apply - nobody sets up their anti cheat to work on linux
Is that actually a problem though?
We really need to see change in the gaming industry. I’ve always hated how the big rivalry between consoles was more so about which exclusives each console had rather than one console actually running better and having better features than the other. Hopefully this is a step in the right direction
Yeah turn over blizzard to microsoft, great solution bro i wonder how that solves anything
Exclusives are the only way consoles can compete with each other.
Yep an industry having the biggest merger in its history is well known to always work out for the consumer.
(since this is the internet meaning sarcasm doesn’t exist /s).
I love how fast the FTC acted on this but lets spectrum basically run the entire state of NY unopposed
I love paying hundreds of dollars for worthless internet that doesnt work, without any competition!!!! Whos the unibomber of my generation (in game of course)
Do people like do any research or use any logic before posting comments
4:54 there is something oddly powerful about this frame
Imagine reading about this deal in history books
Can't wait for the playbox one station
It's really nice to hear this underdog story had a good outcome. It's so rare to hear about the little guy winning. A real David and Goliath story. Microsoft, some rinky dink local business fighting against the government and corporations. It's a real feel good story...
Haha yeah, this is a huge L for gamers
@@jumpedscarab9444huge W fym L
@@TheJugginatorA W how lol
@@joshuamcalistair2787 activision has been steadily losing money for the last few years the game quality is atrocious and microsoft being as rich as it is can funnel more money into game production and it’s big ol dub for xbox players considering COD will most likely be put on game pass
son only argument was one shitty game they didn't wanna lose. maybe next time counter there offer if you want to keep a title.
This was a fun little court 1v1 battle best of 3 I've seen, hope they come back for another tournament.
Best intro in a while, had me rolling !!!
New switch was leaked in Court
“It’s sad that both of them can’t lose”
-Kissinger
So glad Charlie covered this! The mainstream media won’t cover when the little guy wins!
wait little guy 2nd largest company in the world is the little guy
Microsoft is a "little guy"?
@@KarlDelaney99Gaming division yes
@@stewarde17phew. You survived. You just missed the joke coming at you at full speed.
@@stewarde17 Nintendo obliterates PS all the time, and PS destroys Xbox every time. Xbox always been in third place.
"Microsoft has the cheese touch" lmao...
was that a.... dairy of a wimpy kid reference? 😂
3:02 Dude, the Switch can handle No Man's Sky and Hitman 3. It certainly can handle some Cult of Dooty.
Less companies is almost universally a bad thing for consumers. More companies, by definition, means more competition. The more companies merge together the more power is in the hands of the leaders of each controlling company to be anti-competitive. If companies cared about increasing consumer access to games they could literally make agreements and/or contracts with each other to formalise a way to do so- literally nothing is stopping them. With very few exceptions almost any time a merger between large companies happens it is bad for the consumer, if not at first then a few years down the line.
You forget the fact that both Microsoft and Activision Blizzard are kinda struggling hard.
Microsoft cannot make a good game to save its life, and Blizzard seems addicted to holding a gun to their IP's heads.
My hope is that not only the deal goes through, but also it results in the produces games not being soulless, stunted cash grabs and they begin learning from their collective mistakes.
Might be, but its pretty normal for industries to start with many companies and eventually consolidate into 2 or 3 companies. I basically only have two options for soda outside of store brands.
Activison and blizzard are the biggest player in the aaa industry along with ea who also tops the best selling games of the year along with activision which is fifa
Sure, in specific market environments that may be the case. There’s about a billion asterisks to the statement “more companies and more competition is better for consumers” though.
@@AliawooYTim sorry, but being bought out by a $2.5 trillion dollar company that as you state yourself "cant make a good game to save its life" is not the ticket to producing games that ARENT soulless cash grabs.
The thing is Microsoft owns Windows, which is the most used operating system in the world, so of course Microsoft would allow it to go to PC, if they own a massive share of the PC market.
yep Microsoft was always PC first.
yeah but most people only buy games from steam and steam takes 30% cut from sales
Lmao, it annoyed me everytime he mentioned it tbh.
It's not like exclusives go to PlayStation or Nintendo. Just pc, which even has game pass.
Pc is basically a super xbox.
@@jayblack5942 Leave it to "gamers" to be so retarded, they can't even distinguish that. But let them dogpile on the Sony Hate, because they all wanna play their games.
The irony is so bizarre, I wonder who all these MS supporters will blame if Sony will bleed out of the market and we won't have all these Exclusives and IPs anymore, because XBox ain't investing hundreds of millions into their studios to create NaughtyDogs, Insomniacs or SantaMonicas.
While that is true, it's not like many people would buy their games off the Windows store. Steam will take a percent, the same way Sony will on their own store. You don't even need to pay and activate Windows to be able to play PC games
Something people overlooked in the ftc deal is the fact Activision owns alot of IPs that sony used as their mascots during the ps1 era, like crash bandicoot and spyro the dragon. Someone had too of atleast wanted too block that deal because imagine your old mascot releasing a game soley on xbox.
0:47 i am so scared right now
Microsoft can easily make money from letting games just go to multiple consoles, I’m hoping it won’t turn into a monopoly, but as of now this seems like a pretty good thing
They were already a monopoly…
@doginababyseat5127 exactly
@@doginababyseat5127By modern standards, Microsoft is not a monopoly. They were back in the day. But the business actions they took that made them a monopoly are now industry standard. Microsoft today is no more of a monopoly than any other tech company
Nope they said that about bethesda they didnt stick to it lol
@@testoftimegaming5219 They never said that about Bethesda stop spreading misinformation
You don’t let your opinion of the company taint the quality of the news you give us and that’s super cool of you. I’m glad we can see the good points for all of us
One reason why Charlie has 13mil+ subscribers. He’s one of the real ones.
@@RickyJC nah heYs a hypocrite
his take on Dark and Darker was pretty biased underdog simping shit though lol Super cool of him
@@mineralwater6736 okay mineral water
@@mineralwater6736says the guy in the comment section of the guy he's talking down on
Damn, maybe like the act man said, we can get a call of duty version of the master chief collection
also Minecraft was a great example of why they wouldn't want this big of an IP to be exclusive, Minecraft basically prints money on whatever platform its on it would have been a bad financial decision to remove Minecraft from Sony's platforms and I feel like this is exactly the case with COD, it makes too much money for it to make sense for them to remove it from PlayStation and I doubt that Microsoft will actually do that as they can make a ton of money by having it stay on that platform just like Minecraft
I feel at some point there will be a company that will buy out all other companies in the future
Look up black rock.
It already happened bud
@@lilheinz9496You're not wrong. Thanks do Disney, we never got Split Second 2.
It's called Blackrock and they're genuinely an evil corporation
@@donhimesamadaifutari Surprised some Charlie fans even know them and are based about it. Quiet frankly most of this fanbase seems to be naive and delusional about the corruption of all entertainment because of black rock and care more about "clean" politics then whats right.
thats called a monopaly genrally those cant exist.
Next time someone gets in my way on splatoon:
0:36
Can’t wait to see what happens with this
I wish the first thing Microsoft does, be planning to make the Warcraft 4 (RTS of course)
Charlie is the best, i play him in background and i always get invested to his videos, he delivers stuff incredibly. Love u Charlie.
THAT NORTH SENTINELESE ARE BETTER
I love men in lotion
I used to binge dozens of his videos at a time while grinding through dark souls. Good times lol
Activision blizzard is such a cursed thing that happened not even lawyers are willing to take a piece of that cake, they could be messing with the actual fabric of reality.
"Don't tussle with the virtual muscle"
FTC really thought Microsoft would pull a Sony
Its been a while to hear moist be this emotional in his language
I'm glad Bobby is finally out of the picture in Blizzard. Big monetization comes with hefty acquisitions like this, whether it's Rare or Bungie . I'm still wondering whether things will change for the better on the consumers end.
Honestly I see the investors winning not the consumer...
Cod was on nintendo from cod4 to ghost. The only way to successfully release modern cods on the switch is to not make it crossplay, make it its own version like the old games were on wii. They could just port cod mobile to the switch, that would run okay enough
"we're entering the golden age of gaming"
Did i wake up in the early 2000s?
The one massive company that’s won lately.
u rlly du have adhd
You mean Disney
@@eggonium7079large percent of the worlds population does. Your point?