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SEC Approved Microsoft's Purchase Of ZeniMax, Clearing One More Obstacle In Acquisition's Path | MMO
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SEC Approved Microsoft's Purchase Of ZeniMax, Clearing One More Obstacle In Acquisition's Path | MMORPG.com
It looks like Microsoft officially got one step closer to finishing its acquisition of ZeniMax as the SEC has cleared the deal today.
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I guess a rationale for it would be to restrain monopolies in a way? Since it's a big scale purchase and Microsoft is involved I'd assume they wouldn't want to let Microsoft to "consume" every company they can into them.
Although, I have no fucking clue and it's just the first thing that I thought about. Also, I'm unsure if Microsoft buying Zenimax is a good thing(?), do they also get ownership of established game like ESO? Or the developed games stay within Bethesda domain?
Even if state regulation is not ideal, it's more free than the alternative.
Microsoft years ago claimed the ywere getting out of the gaming business,out of the console business but are ever invested more than ever.
As the publisher i have seen an ever increasing move to rush games out way earlier than they shoudl be resulting is very half assed games and over priced as well.
Microsoft knows how easy it is to market and sell a product with a fancy video and just knows how easy it is to sell games now a days at higher prices than should be.
As a game studio we knew what Flight Sim and Age of Empires?Well what they try and sell from the AOE remakes is a complete joke,nothing more than a cheap cash grab,no real effort at all.When i saw SOT selling for $80 on release i was like RU kidding me,people need their head examined to pay that for such garbage.Doesn't matter Micrososft knows people will pay it and it the game receives backlash,who cares,they got their money,move on to the next BS sale.
So for me personally,i will NOT buy anything with Microsofts name attached to it,not to mention they piss me off with their W10 abuse and forcing updates on to us.
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Obviously, the game software industry isn't anywhere remotely near that, with its many competitors and low barriers to entry. But that's why the deal was approved. A proposed merger of Microsoft with Google or Apple probably would be rejected.
I don't see a problem with remakes of old games. They don't prohibit you from continuing to play the old version if you already own it. They sometimes provide additional options to play the old game on newer hardware that cannot run the old version directly.
As for Window 10's automatic updates, Microsoft is fighting against the tendency of malware to spread by exploiting bugs that Microsoft had long since fixed because a lot of people disabled updates. At a personal level, it would be nice to have the option to opt out, but at a societal level, there are benefits to everyone else being forced to at least install security updates.
I mean it's up to each company if they want to sell to (X) company or not if Microsoft runs to Instagram for example and offers to buy it out for a billion dollars, they have the right to refuse, but in my eyes SEC should not exist.
Meanwhile big tech companies are often lawsuit for monopoly, take Fortnite for example, if people don't like Epic then they aren't going to use it, and Apple / Google do have the right to remove the APP from the store, but they don't want the right to keep people from playing it on their devices.
Even look at Game Stop / (GME) what happend there if i'd have bought out gamestop at like $2 a share months ago even 20 shares i'd have quite a bit of money because of the memes, but SEC stepped in I believe it was them and cancel all trades ruining peoples (Free economy) costing people lots of money / Robbin Hood for that matter.
Free Economy, and Constitution in my eyes is what matters over any SEC laws its up to the people what they want to do but never should anything have to be approved.
Lets also take a look at patent trolls (Specifically) VLSI LLC, basically a company that owns some patent, but using that to lawsuit Intel years later rather than the moment their designs were released, this stuff actually happens too much.