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quote:Xbox has announced that it plans to acquire ZeniMax Media, and with it Bethesda Softworks, creators and publishers of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Wolfenstein, Doom, Dishonored, Quake, Starfield and more. https://www.ign.com/articles/xbox-bethesda-zenimax-aquisition This is pretty big. MS now owns a big chunk of the open world RPGs and lots of loved IP. A big part of the playstation's appeal has just been drawn into question in my opinion. It's looking like Microsoft through gamepass is looking to become the Netflix of gaming? EDIT: also, Obsidian and Bethesda are now owned by the same company so let's hope this means new vegas 2 WD40 fucked around with this message at 12:48 on Sep 22, 2020 |
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Overall this is pretty bad news, since free market competition is what motivates companies to offer their customers better products & services at a lower price.
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# ? Sep 22, 2020 18:48 |
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i'd have thought this would garner more attention i guess no one's worried about es6 being excluded from ps5
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# ? Sep 22, 2020 21:39 |
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There's another thread already over here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3941283
Sloane fucked around with this message at 21:17 on Sep 23, 2020 |
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