cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1354224
Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard may go ahead in the United States, as Judge Corley sees no danger of harming competition.
The issue here is simple. MS is not the market leader. They constantly lag behind all of its competitors in this market in sales and quality.
Instead of letting the market decide the winner, MS is opening up its wallet and purchasing the largest video game company in the US and EU to make sure that it’s more talented competition does not have access to any of those games past the current hardware generation.
They are using their massive amount of capital earned in unrelated businesses to do monopolistic business behavior. MS only got this passed because the US government is bought and paid for.
