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Great news! I'm normally not a fan of mergers but hope Microsoft will do a better job with the Blizzard IP.
Considering Microsoft own Bethesda and they pulled the whole 'xbox and pc exclusive' bullshit. It seems like Microsoft are trying to create a monopoly of gaming companies so they can compete with and try pull people away from Sony. They hate that Sony continues to beat them in console sales.
So my concern is they're going to stop selling things on Sony, such as overwatch, diablo etc. They only promised call of duty for 10 years. I didn't read any other games with this promise in the merger deal. I honestly think it should have been blocked cause they are trying to monopolise the gaming industry and basically force a switch to their game pass or console.
Yes blizz was a shit show. But Microsoft are children who don't like that people have friends other than themselves.
I'm not into consoles so as long as there's PC support, I'm good. I wouldn't call something exclusive if it's on PC... As long as there isn't a crippling anti-cheat, that means it can be played on Linux!
But there's people who don't play on pc. That's a pretty crappy thing to say. 'i don't care about it unless it affects me.'
I console game, cause I grew up on consoles, I can't do the whole sitting in a pc chair thing. There's more than just people who play pc. And if it's on pc only, that is pc exclusive.
Picking up a console means locking yourself down to (and supporting) a platform designed around creating exclusives. PC games aren't locked down and can work on a much wider range of hardware and even operating systems.
I use my PC almost exclusively from the couch with my OLED TV. Sometimes from bed with a tablet on a flexible arm via Sunshine/Moonlight.