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KyuubiNoKitsune ( KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone )  to Gaming · 3 years ago

It's official, Microsoft now owns ABK

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It's official, Microsoft now owns ABK

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KyuubiNoKitsune ( KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone )  to Gaming · 3 years ago
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Welcoming the Legendary Teams at Activision Blizzard King to Team Xbox - Xbox Wire
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Today we welcome the teams at Activision Blizzard King to Team Xbox. It's a good day to play.
  • Domiku ( Domiku@beehaw.org ) 
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    I love Game Pass, but I don’t like monopolies. I wish regulators had blocked this. Also: https://www.theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741

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      I was laughing at the onion article and stopped- was that really published in 1998 ?!?!? Or is the date also a joke?

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        It reads like it’s from 98. The references to Blockbuster, Daimler-Chrysler, McDonnell Douglas, and Bill Clinton tipped me off this was an old one.

      • MangoKangaroo ( MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org ) 
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        Wikipedia says that The Onion has had a website since '96, so it’s definitely possible! (Also, TIL The Onion has existed since 1988.)

        • Mothra ( Mothra@mander.xyz ) 
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          I knew the onion is old, but didn’t imagine they would keep a website with old articles still up!

          • wim ( wim@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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            Why not? It costs nothing, appart from transforming the old format into something the current site can work with, or more likely, have the old site support tbe old format.

            • Mars ( Mars@beehaw.org ) 
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              Some media organizations have started nuking old articles to please the Google algorithm

      • Phroon ( Phroon@beehaw.org ) 
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        It really is that old. According to their Supreme Court amicus brief: “Rising from its humble beginnings as a print newspaper in 1756, The Onion now enjoys a daily readership of 4.3 trillion and has grown into the single most powerful and influential organization in human history.” Seriously though, read that brief. It’s a masterful piece of satire.

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        The wayback machine has it archived as early as December 2017, no idea beyond that.

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      It’s hard to block mergers based on a company involved being a monopoly if none of the companies involved are monopolies or will become monopolies.

      Regulators have to come up with a different set of rules to block “large but not monopolistic mergers” without also just effectively protecting the actual leader in a given industry from competition.

      • conciselyverbose ( conciselyverbose@kbin.social ) 
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        IDK how you block it when it probably doesn’t even make Microsoft the leader in the console space.

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      How have I never read that? That’s amazing.

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