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submitted 1 year ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

The Federal Trade Commission's request for an injunction stopping that acquisition heads toward opening arguments this week, the federal regulator cites one piece of what it calls "powerful evidence" that it can't trust Microsoft's assurances. In short, as the FTC puts it, "Microsoft's actions following its 2021 acquisition of ZeniMax speak louder than Defendants' words."

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[-] iamlyth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

All this really does is seem to encourage the way Sony does business which is to just buy exclusivity agreements with third party studios. Both methods (buying established studios outright and buying exclusivity agreements) seem highly anticompetitive and bad for gamers overall.

[-] thoro@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Or they could nurture growing studios and develop new IP under their own management?

[-] ram@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If we actually want to solve that problem though, the solution isn't to just stop the purchase and call it a day. And I doubt the FTC is going to lobby legislators to actually do their jobs.

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