OOO HYEAH IM ACQUIRINGGGGGGG
>Acquire studios
>Don’t make any new games
What’s this strategy is called?
Monopoly
Stock market.
Businesses don’t care about their employees beyond their output.
They are just buying IP and killing the talent?
I smell microshit and Nokia repeat
Regulators are too busy doing corruption?
I swear they approved these deals subject to conditions.
Even so any progress the government made is going to evaporate days after the Orange Idiot takes office
They break the conditions and pay a fine a fraction of the size of the acquisition itself.
Things are about to get a whole lot less regulated too. I hope you like poison in your drinking water!
Microsoft sees Sony with many in-house developers who create AAA hype and profit, like Naughty Dog or Guerilla Games, and they want the same. But instead of growing their own teams, like Sony did, they are buying any reasonably sized developer with the hope that the purchase doesn’t affect the final product. Microsoft has been very hands off with the studios that it buys, except Bethesda because Todd needs a babysitter, which reflects this approach of owning but not controlling the studio.
Microsoft doesn’t seem to think that firing the people who make the games we love, like Tango Softworks and Arkane, will cause any harm to their brand because they are the monolith Microsoft.
Regulation? In the US?
Not in this timeline.
surely not in my cuntry, boy
I recently found out Nokia required Nokia phones. so we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.
Say the line Bart!
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
They unfortunately forgot the second step and went straight the extinguish.
The march towards three megacorps running the entire economy continues now that Donnie’s back. It was nice having four years of resistance to unfettered acquisitions.
My company just did the same thing. Just layed off 15% of staff because of some bad quarters but is now looking into mergers and acquisitions because they think/know the senile microphone abuser will let tech consolidation run wild.
Wait… if corps are people, have they now got anorexia?
Scum. Learn to code, Microsoft.
