So, Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard. How will this affect the rest of the industry?

@amki@feddit.de

The interface gets a little better and that’s it basically? (Alternatively: They try to spin a social medium around it and fail somewhat and succeed somewhat?)

@soulsource@discuss.tchncs.de

Okay, Youtube was maybe a bad example. They aren’t that far with the enshittification yet, and just started increasing the amounts of ads…

Things I do expect:

Price increase
Tiered pricing (okay, that’s already a thing for GamePass with the “PC” and “Ultimate” plan)
Lower price tiers including advertisements (could for instance be placed in games streamed from the cloud)
Other things that aren’t beneficial for consumers.

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So, Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard. How will this affect the rest of the industry?

So, Microsoft now owns Activision Blizzard. How will this affect the rest of the industry?