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Shroomy Oct 13, 2023 @ 6:24am
Why is Microsoft buying the worst studios? Bethesda first, now activision blizzard
Weird. While developing one of the worst OS on the market, Win11 (hopefully Linux exists!), now the M in GAFAM is buying another milk-cow studio for casual or challenged players.

After the fails of Age of Empire and Starfield, ain't there a pattern here? What is the goal of MS?

My hypothesis: Is it to push a new era of mediocre, costly, underdevelopped games with a policy of DLC and micro-transactions in order to reduce the overall games' quality market? Do they want us to play plentiful of sh*t games in this decade by flooding the market with pseudo AAA titles or franchises, lowering their quality so they can sell sh!t at gold's price?

Is that the new gaming standard?

What do you think?
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Originally posted by Sticky White Stuff:
I don't own an Xbox.
Never had, never will.

I do own a PC, Sega, Nintendo and Sony Consoles.

Microsoft isn't buying the "wrong" studios. Bethesda, or rather, Zenimax have a lot GOOD studios under their belt. Arkane, id, Tango, etc.

The problem is that Microsoft would like to buy Nintendo if they could.
They DON'T know what to do with those studios after they bought them.

Microsoft also likes to change the creative output for games, as seen in Redfall.
No one in Arkane wanted to make Redfall, or rather a multiplayer game.
But Microsoft forced them, and the game was horrible. If they sticked to Immersive Sims/RPGs what they do the best, and Arkane knows how to make one hell of an Immersive Sim, this wouldn't be a problem. But Microsoft thinks that isn't going to sell, it's not their market. They want fail-safe games without any risk.

Microsoft is the most cookie cutter company there is. No creative output, just bland games.
They already own too much, and they want to own everything. But they don't know what the hell they want to do with those studios at the end.
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Shroomy Oct 13, 2023 @ 6:46am 
Mhhh, still no answers, I feel many of you did not read the info. It's too soon probably to talk about what's incoming and how this depency might threaten the future of videogames (as a trend). Wait and see.
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Gleitfrosch Oct 13, 2023 @ 6:53am 
Bethesda made several good games in the past, but they lost their mojo at some point. Bluntly adding politics to their games did not help either.

Without that and with someone who oversees their work, Bethesda could create great games.
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LeftPaw Oct 13, 2023 @ 6:54am 
Yeah, MS keep picking up turkeys when there are so many talented hard working dev's trying to afford to make games, good games.
All they are buying are labels not talent and that is why they keep getting it so wrong.
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Shroomy Oct 13, 2023 @ 6:55am 
Originally posted by Gleitfrosch:
Bethesda made several good games in the past, but they lost their mojo at some point. Bluntly adding politics to their games did not help either.

Without that and with someone who oversees their work, Bethesda could create great games.

Nahhhh, politics is not the reason the game fell. Cf. BG3. My question is merely why is MS buying the wrong studios. Aren't birds of a feather flocked together?
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Butcher Oct 13, 2023 @ 6:57am 
Do you have better studio in mind for them to buy?
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LeftPaw Oct 13, 2023 @ 6:58am 
Originally posted by Shroomy:
Originally posted by Gleitfrosch:
Bethesda made several good games in the past, but they lost their mojo at some point. Bluntly adding politics to their games did not help either.

Without that and with someone who oversees their work, Bethesda could create great games.

Nahhhh, politics is not the reason the game fell. Cf. BG3. My question is merely why is MS buying the wrong studios. Aren't birds of a feather flocked together?

The politics didn't help. It's a big bundle of mistakes made and when you play the game you can't help getting the feeling that they didn't give a poo about the game when making it. It was merely something they could get away with calling a AAA title and charge the top prise for.
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CurrySpirals Oct 13, 2023 @ 7:00am 
They want the K, in ABK. King, the mobile division. Mobile gaming makes like 50% of revenue in the gaming industry. As a bonus, they get a lot of IP for Game Pass.
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CurrySpirals Oct 13, 2023 @ 7:01am 
Originally posted by Butcher:
Do you have better studio in mind for them to buy?

I’m surprised they didn’t acquire Remedy around the time when they bought Double Fine.
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Dinellian Oct 13, 2023 @ 7:03am 
Originally posted by Gleitfrosch:
Bethesda made several good games in the past, but they lost their mojo at some point. Bluntly adding politics to their games did not help either.

Without that and with someone who oversees their work, Bethesda could create great games.

Fallout's whole story is commentary on actual real world politics, this is nothing new to gaming. Just because you don't see the politics in a game, it doesn't mean it's not there, most likely you are the one illiterate enough to not recognize it.

As OP said, SF's score is not falling because of politics, except in the minds of a few incel keyboard warriors.
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Shroomy Oct 13, 2023 @ 7:04am 
Originally posted by Butcher:
Do you have better studio in mind for them to buy?

Larian, but they won't fall in love for that kind of ultra-highly-financiarized boss.

Most probably Paradox, are they are full spirit into the aggressive DLC policy and already on the stockmarket.
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Maya Oct 13, 2023 @ 7:05am 
I guess MS can't do worse than Activision Blizzard did with World of Warcraft BFA.
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Butcher Oct 13, 2023 @ 7:05am 
Originally posted by CurrySpirals:
Originally posted by Butcher:
Do you have better studio in mind for them to buy?

I’m surprised they didn’t acquire Remedy around the time when they bought Double Fine.
Both are B tier game studios though. Bethesda is a big fish.

And monopolisation of big studios in hands of Microsoft shouldn't be celebrated to begin with.
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Arconedas Oct 13, 2023 @ 7:08am 
Microsoft is a company that lost its mojo a long long time ago (debatable if it ever had one). It can only thrive when it has a monopoly (Windows etc.) backing its profits. If it were to loose these it would crash faster than a Russian moon probe. Add to that DEI, wokeness and all the so called modern trends its a miracle it does as well as it does. Also it looks to buy companies that share same ideals and values.
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LeftPaw Oct 13, 2023 @ 7:13am 
They would have done much better buying something like Hello games. Those guys are dedicated and very talented.
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Action Man Oct 13, 2023 @ 7:18am 
It's about consolidation. Become the one stop shop for consumers so they have no choice to buy from you.
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