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Microsoft wins lawsuit and will go ahead with the purchase of Activision (gamerkick.com)

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Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard may go ahead in the United States, as Judge Corley sees no danger of harming competition.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Making COD exclusive isn’t happening. It would be a terrible business decision, just like making minecraft exclusive would be. COD is the highest selling game every single year. It’s a game that is filled with micro transactions, so the more people playing it the better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But people will buy an XBox rather than a PS6/7 if they can't play CoD on the latter... It's not like people are already tied into a console 1-2 generations in the future, so this would influence what console people buy next.

With Minecraft most players play on PC and frankly taking it off Mac and Linux would make a lot of business sense for Microsoft, however as it's Java and how easily modifiable and portable Java programs are, they know people would just get it working anyway. The same does not apply for CoD, where nearly everyone plays on console, and a significant part of what console someone buys is what games they can play on it.