I love that “innovation” with big US companies always means acquiring another company. Not like EA is a big innovator either.
Or AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe’s from Bojack Horseman
“Wait so how many companies are there in the world now?”
“Nine.”
Yeah, but don’t worry. It’s not a monopoly until only one company bought every other.
Ooohhhh, please don’t suggest anyone buy Trader Joe’s. That would F Up my world.
Trader Joe’s is already owned by Aldi.
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But why? Disney has made several attempts before to break into gaming, none of which have worked out well. The best Disney games have all been licensed games by Square Enix, BioWare, Capcom, etc.
Also, Disney doesn’t have the cash to buy EA, so buying EA would involve them going deeply into debt. With today’s interest rates, that would be too risky.
Man, I miss Disney Infinity. The toy requirement was stupid, but the building was a ton of fun
The best Disney games have all been licensed games by Square Enix, BioWare, Capcom, etc.
That’s why they’re going to want to buy those studios.
They can’t buy Square Enix or Capcom; Japan has laws protecting certain Japanese companies from being bought out by foreign companies.
@OfficialThunderbolt @Jinxyface it’s ashamed more countries & gov’t are to fiscally driven to legally prevent monopolies when they’ve been known to be destructive
Video games aren’t in danger of becoming a monopoly, but that kind of measure seems more aimed at preventing foreigners from having too much influence.
Video games aren’t in danger of becoming a monopoly,
Microsoft, a trillion dollar tech conglomerate, has just purchased multiple of the entire video game’s largest publishers. It is entirely in danger of becoming a monopoly
How many games came out in 2023? How many of those do Microsoft own? How much do you think that second number changes over the next 10 years? There are so, so, so many video game companies out there that Microsoft doesn’t own.
It’s not about how many Microsoft owns. It’s how large the ones they own are. Microsoft has essentially made long time huge third party developers/publishers part of their company now, that’s corporate consolidation and should never be defended or justified in any way.
Microsoft has trillions of dollars. They have the capital, workforce, and time to build up their own studios. If the only way a trillion dollar company can “compete” in a space is to consolidate that space by applying anti consumer tactics like buying out longstanding publishers, that’s stupid and a lie.
Well they can’t make EA any worse, right? Right??
Sure, because it did wonders for Fox and Marvel.
(And casually ruined Marvel vs Capcom Infinite).
Don’t they technically already own LucasArts when they bought LucasFilms back in 2012?
Is that not big enough?
Don’t they technically already own LucasArts when they bought LucasFilms back in 2012?
They shut it down within months :\ killed Star Wars 1313 in the process.
I dunno but I do love those last couple of Jedi games… love that shit, and I don’t really like star wars
If they remake Jedi Knight II and III, I’m in.
So I’m not in, basically.
Dark Forces is getting a remaster, and Dark Forces 2 is the first Jedi Knight title.
So you might have a chance, maybe.
Souls-like, but not as difficult.
I kinda support this since it means Disney will probably kill it off in a year.
really though you can thank microsoft buying activision for this trend
You don’t think embracer deserves some of the credit here? They’ve been buying up studios for a decade now and just got to the point where they are closing them. It’s popular IP consolidation.
Mouse couldn’t run EA worse than EA is run now. Meet the new boss same as the old boss.
Rule 2 of the videogame industry: if you think something can’t get worse, it absolutely fucking will within a month or two
See also: Unity
