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Microsoft Blocked From Buying Activision For Now, As Judge Grants Temporary Restraining Order (www.gamespot.com)
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[–] 24 points 3 years ago (10 children)

Let's hope it doesn't happen. I don't know why some people get excited. Monopolies are never a good thing and Microsoft is ONCE again getting too big...

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Except Microsoft is in a distant third place in the gaming market - Sony has had the crown for that for years, and has actually used its market position in the past to make things worse for competitors and for gamers in general.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    except we need Microsoft to get bigger to stop Sony from being a dominating monopoly.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Sony buying everything is just as much a problem as MS doing it. I think the main difference is that they've stayed under the radar by doing smaller purchases, but I want someone to push the brakes on them equally as much.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Microsoft can do that by actually competing. Throwing money around solely to take things away from people who don't buy their products to entrench themselves in the market is anti-competitive. Allowing that sort of thing means any behemoth can come and muscle their way into any market they want to. This is a bad future.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    ms releases everything on console AND pc though.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Throwing money around solely to take things away from people, like Sony does? So it's fine if it's small enough and affects less people (Xbox users)? Or the other illogical line of thought of "they're both not okay but don't let them do what the smaller guy who controls more of the market does".

    Microsoft is only bigger because Xbox isn't separate, they're not even second biggest after the purchased.

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