Comment on Microsoft completes $69bn takeover of Call of Duty-maker Activision Blizzard
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 1 year ago🙄👌
It’s never been a better time to be a gamer. Fantastic games are a dime a dozen and consoles have never been nearly as powerful for low end games. It’s a fantastic time to be gaming.
hazelnot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Except Microsoft is building up a monopoly on gaming, buying what they can, consolidating its properties so they can then transition to a streaming-only model where nobody owns anything (I know you don’t technically “own” the games you buy either but at least you can have them on physical media to keep, back up or sell) and the only way to play anything is to pay a monthly subscription fee and to use only what Microsoft allows you to use (i.e. no more Linux gaming)
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What a fantastic imagination.
If you want to blame physical media going away you should go complain to papa Gaben.
hazelnot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Steam games are obtainable in other ways. Streaming-exclusive ones aren’t.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You mean by stealing. You should just be clear with your language.