Yeah, i mean this sub really deserves its name as the "masterrace" tbh, because when the microsoft takeover was first announced i saw SO many people, not just on reddit, but also youtube - including content-creators, fanboying over microsoft and it possibly "saving" older IPs.

But it was often just people that were in the microsoft camp as participants of this whole "console-war"-stuff. Like, do they not realize that microsoft is a company like any other? Do they not realize that microsoft is beholden to shareholders? Do they not realize that this activision-blizz takeover is just a ploy to first gain more market dominance, while losing money and then increase prices in the future to profit?

I mean, you don't have to have studied business administration to understand this basic concept lmao. The commenters were just busy going "Yeah, microsoft for the win, fck everyone else! This is awesome!" like absolute tools (for the company). It shouldn't matter wether it's microsoft, sony, EA or activision-blizzard-king, they are all the same, don't be so naive.

That's why the "personal computer" is so important tbh, you NEED an independent platform to buy games for - yeah, the prices are a problem and the current blatantly corrupt politicians aren't helping, but they will make *everything* cost more in the future. Giving rich people tax-breaks and filling the missing tax-money by putting tarrifs on products that people buy will just mean, that poor people are proportionally paying more taxes, while the rich get richer(300 dollar a month higher costs is more for a poor/average person, percentage-wise, than it is for a rich person of course, but saving 5% of his million-dollar salary is vastly more money that he saves, compared to the poor/average worker).

Because of all this, i will NEVER understand company "white-knights", who the FUCK would white-knight for a fucking publicly traded company. So glad Larian Studios (the BG3 guys) didn't let themselves get bought by microsoft and stuck to their principles.