Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard

Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by cma on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @11:55AM (#29981934)

> There is a stable duopoly, where Microsoft can reap the benefits of competition between the two, without wasting any resources.

The huge competition where both charge 30% of gross sales, far higher than even the federal corporate tax rate, which is only charged on the net.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by bduerst on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:57PM (#29982995)

They get away with that because it's a two-sided market and they have all the consumers. Microsoft tried to woo devs on Windows phone and it didn't work, because consumers didn't follow.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by marcellus23 on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @06:25AM (#29992323)

They’re the ones providing everything from the OS through the dev environment and the hosting and payment processing, not to mention marketing and having built the billion devices that users are purchasing from.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by JAlexoid on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @12:44PM (#29982781)

And they don't have to spend billions on building and maintaining their own platform.

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by AJ007 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:08PM (#29984136)

Hard to see that lasting more than another 2-3 years.

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