European Commission Deputy Head draws ire for public comments regarding the Microsoft-Activision merger, but he is not involved in the merger unit.
Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected
Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.
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Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
I don't think it matters if he is involved with the unit or not - he will likely have contact with said people.
He has single handedly just handed Microsoft their biggest legal defense against any decision by the EU commission that they are not happy with. They will just point towards this guy and say "Look, the case was already decided before they'd even reviewed any evidence".
Hopefully European commission does block this, or on the condition that Activision sells Blizzard, Crash and Spyro, and most of IPs to other companies or form a side company to house these IP in as a consequence for this huge purchase but nah that ain't reality.
It’s a bad look for the EU commission no matter how people try to spin it. This can definitely play into MS’s favor if this guy is legit.
The gaming community's response on this case is a prime example of how childlike, immature and immoral most gamers are; how out of touch, unknowledgable and two-sided they can be and how entitled they can feel.
Activision Blizzard is a company facing an internal collapse, bleeding talent and facing legal trouble from it's employees. With a board of directors that can not assess the situation properly and fix the company's internal problems and their game quality (especially blizzard) has been on a sharp decline compared to what they could have been.
Most franchises, on the other hand, are being bled to death and communities like WOW are starting to die.
Yet, despite microsoft being able to fix the internal problems and aliviate the stress between management and employes, gamers choose to attack the acquisition that could actually save the company. The acquisition that could possibly save and bring back the life to World of Watctaft, diablo, overwatch 2, Tony Hawk etc etc.
It is beyond me, as such, to think that someone can be so small as to ignore the actual death that is lurking around Activision's ip's corner, so that he can still play call of duty in that single console of his.