• @[email protected]
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      It’s such a weird take, i don’t remember any platform CoD had impact.

      PC was big before, Nintendo is doing their own thing, smartphones were big before and Sony / Microsoft had both CoD anyway

    • Hextic
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      Nintendo switch says “sup?”

  • Neato
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    This was just more MS propaganda so they could buy Activision and consolidate. Further harming gaming competition. It shouldn’t be taken as anything but twisted truth for a profit.

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      I’m conflicted. On one hand, monopoly is absolutely bad.

      On the other hand, Kotick is an abusive, greedy asswipe who is directly responsible for some of the worst trends in AAA gaming; the sooner he gets the boot, the better we all are.

      • Rayspekt
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        My conflict lies more with how Sony fucked up gaming with their exclusive deals for the last decade or so and now Microsoft is pulling the Uno reverse on them, where I as a PC gamer lean more towards Microsoft. That’s the part of this merger I personally like to a degree.

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          Two decades. There was the dead years between ~2004 and 2012ish where both MS and Sony played the exclusive game. Then MS released they could double down and get PC exclusives as well as Xbox, but with PC they don’t have to eat the hardware costs

        • Altima NEO
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          I still think it’s stupid Microsoft sold of so many studios they had, early on in the 360 era.

      • @woelkchen
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        Kotick is an abusive, greedy asswipe who is directly responsible for some of the worst trends in AAA gaming

        And that’s why giving him a payout is good?

        the better we all are.

        I don’t think I’m better off when Blizzard games will be exclusive to MS platforms.

      • @Xanvial
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        And is it confirmed that Kotick will leave after ActiBlizz bought by MS? Usually for big company purchase like this, the key people will be kept and/or integrated to main company

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        I dunno if he moreso deserves the boot or the sword at this point.

        As in, criminal penalties for basically running a harassment ring, if applicable.

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        He’s reported he wants to leave. Because he’ll become an even bigger billionaire. But there’s no guarantee that we’ve seen, is there? He’s egotistical enough he may want to stay on.

        MS has lately had a fairly light touch on their acquisitions. They just want their profits to be theirs and to use their IPs to push Xbox sales.

        But even if he leaves, it’s unlikely MS is going to radically shift their games to be more consumer friendly. CoD and King already prey on children and make bank doing it. MS isn’t throwing that away.

  • @[email protected]
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    Why can’t the steam deck run COD exactly? Is Microsoft trying to ship it as some alien UWP app

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      Malware labeled “anticheat software” that wants obscene access to low level OS information and is a massive security liability.

        • conciselyverbose
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          A new whitepaper published August 24th to Trend Micro explains how the perfectly legitimate driver mhyprot2.sys was used, absent any other parts of Genshin Impact, to gain root access to a system.

          I think maybe you should re-evaluate your definition of “perfectly legitimate”.

          • @[email protected]
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            Just like the Mafioso “perfectly legitimate businessmen” who offer fire insurance and personal injury insurance door to door, after dark. Be a real shame if something were to happen.

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              I can understand that bugs happen. It’s absolutely possible for well intentioned software to have a fatal flaw that leads to catastrophic security breaches.

              But there’s no scenario where a game having that access is defensible. It’s gross overreach that can’t possibly be in good faith and you deserve all the hate you get if anything bad happens.

              • devtimiM
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                The way people who cheat talk about input modifier devices leaves a bad taste in my mouth, so I can understand why a driver level system was considered.

                Cheaters in online games really are the worst type of people because they feel entitled to ruin other peoples games. It’s one thing to “level up” your solo experience. It’s a different thing to intend to ruin someone else’s.

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                  Even if we pretended it was possible for their anticheat to work (it isn’t), it’s pure unredeemable evil to think it’s possible for there to be a scenario you’re entitled to that access.

                  If 50 percent of players were cheaters with that access and literally no one ever cheated again with it, you would be a monster to consider using it. It should be a criminal offense with mandatory jail time to the CEO and board of directors for every single computer it’s installed on.

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            Let’s punch a huge hole in the OS and go from there. That sounds perfectly reasonable.

            I could maybe somehow understand it, if it would bring you absolute safety from cheaters, the funniest part about this is, the cheat devs are still above them, so just throw in the towel of trying to destroy the safety of legitimate players devices if you are still losing anyway.

  • @[email protected]
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    I am not very familiar with the gaming industry (casual gamer only) but, while the argument is true, the conclusion that the big players can apply monopolistic practices without constraints leaving smaller players unaffected, is simply false.