GamesIndustry.biz spoke to two legal experts, with Gamma Law managing partner David B. Hoppe observing that this complaint is in line with the FTC's "strategy of expanded antitrust enforcement."
Saad from eXputer: "After suffering from massive financial hits, Square Enix & Bandai Namco appear to be turning over a new leaf but I'm still unconvinced."
I was talking about games with some Japanese guys here in Japan, and it seems like around here Bandai Namco has a fame of making low-quality games, with the occasional gem.
About Square Enix, I believe they lack the capacity to improve. They should learn with Capcom (although even Capcom still makes some bad mistakes), but I don't think they ever will. They keep chasing whatever is new at the time (blockchain, AI...) to say "we innovate", without considering the public perception and if these things actually improve the games or not. Them releasing too many small games with no advertising also shows a lack of trust in its own products. Even with their biggest games, like turning FF into an action game with XVI and the very divisive plot changes regarding whispers and timelines in VII Remake, shows them trying to attract a new generation of gamers without understanding what made the series so big in the first place.
I don’t know why NOW they decide on this, but I guess later is better than never.
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Puma the unofficial sneakers for the NYC Breakers from the movie Beat Street (1984)
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?
Lol if former FTC members whom are saying the current head is stupid and is going to lose in court badly because Khan objected is base off ideals and not facts.
I think the odds of MS abandoning this are near zero, if not zero. They seem all in on it, and rightfully so - the cost of going through court etc is non-zero, but its small for MS, and small compared to the gains they would make by having ABK under their belt.
Plus, the cost of going to court is likely less than paying Activision 3bn to cancel the deal.
Part of me thinks this will be settled before going to court via an agreement between the FTC & MS. I think MS believes they would win in court - but MS won't want to drag this out into 2024 (which is where it's going if it goes to the Fed court, and potentially the Supreme Court), similarly the FTC knows their case is weak/would lose - so realistically, neither side wants this to really go to court.
Deal going through in 3...2...1...
I know xbox only fans want this deal to go through, I mean he'll I'm not adverse to it if it means all blizzard and Activision games go on gp, saves me a ton of money.
But consider that if it does go through, sony will more than likely end up buying square and capcom and makes all there ips exclusive.
Outside of console warring and being able to say xbox is the biggest brand now and brings the most revenue or whatever.
Is it worth losing all of squares capcoms ips just to gain cod and diablo and bragging rights?
No skin of my back however this all pans put I have all 3 consoles, just don't think xbox guys are thinking this through.
You will likely end up losing a lot more great games than ur actually gaining.
We still talking about this???