completely optional materia too. playing without it and other stuff is hard mode
I always thought Ruby Weapon was harder fwiw. Way too much can go wrong in that fight
I always thought Ruby Weapon was harder fwiw. Way too much can go wrong in that fight
data can't keep getting away with this
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2288070/The_Ninja_Saviors_Return_of_the_Warriors/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2288070/The_Ninja_Saviors_Return_of_the_Warriors/
By Laboured Go To Postdata can't keep getting away with thisoh my god this is like the first SNES game I ever rented
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2288070/The_Ninja_Saviors_Return_of_the_Warriors/
Phil won
Edit: @reilo Threads embedding when?
Microsoft's acquisition of Activision has been described as the largest in tech history. It deserves scrutiny. That scrutiny has paid off: Microsoft has committed in writing, in public, and in court to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for 10 years on parity with Xbox. It made an agreement with Nintendo to bring Call of Duty to Switch. And it entered several agreements to for the first time bring Activision's content to several cloud gaming services. This Court's responsibility in this case is narrow. It is to decide if, notwithstanding these current circumstances, the merger should be halted—perhaps even terminated—pending resolution of the FTC administrative action. For the reasons explained, the Court finds the FTC has not shown a likelihood it will prevail on its claim this particular vertical merger in this specific industry may substantially lessen competition. To the contrary, the record evidence points to more consumer access to Call of Duty and other Activision content. The motion for a preliminary injunction is therefore DENIED.
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Now things get very interesting.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activision has been described as the largest in tech history. It deserves scrutiny. That scrutiny has paid off: Microsoft has committed in writing, in public, and in court to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation for 10 years on parity with Xbox. It made an agreement with Nintendo to bring Call of Duty to Switch. And it entered several agreements to for the first time bring Activision's content to several cloud gaming services. This Court's responsibility in this case is narrow. It is to decide if, notwithstanding these current circumstances, the merger should be halted—perhaps even terminated—pending resolution of the FTC administrative action. For the reasons explained, the Court finds the FTC has not shown a likelihood it will prevail on its claim this particular vertical merger in this specific industry may substantially lessen competition. To the contrary, the record evidence points to more consumer access to Call of Duty and other Activision content. The motion for a preliminary injunction is therefore DENIED.
To the contrary, the record evidence points to more consumer access to Call of Duty and other Activision content.lololololol. I mean the FTC really didn’t have a good case and really it seemed that their arguments were primarily based on damage to Sony and not to customers but actually believing this is comical
Hopefully this can be done soon. Also, hopefully I can change my region and not get the AB free GamePass
By DiPro Go To Postthe brits are our last hope.
The CMA are independent and made their decision, I don't see what this changes unless MS really does want to explore cutting out the UK
Edit: Although I do recognise some tokenistic concessions to the CMA in order to make it look like the CMA had a 'positive' impact on the deal to get regulatory approval is the most likely outcome now.
Edit: Although I do recognise some tokenistic concessions to the CMA in order to make it look like the CMA had a 'positive' impact on the deal to get regulatory approval is the most likely outcome now.
By Zabojnik Go To PostGuess I am getting that ~120€ for 3 years of GamePass deal after all.Gold to Game Pass Ultimate is no longer 1:1 but now it 3:2, 3 years of Gold = 2 years of Gold Ultimate. Still a decent deal.
Phil really needs this that’s for sure, good for him. Hopefully Sony will now have the green light to acquire Capcom. This case proves acquisitions and consolidation are good for consumers.
By Laboured Go To Postit's Joever.
By DiPro Go To Postthe brits are our last hope.They’re gonna get revenge for 1776
By Crusher Go To PostPhil really needs this that’s for sure, good for him. Hopefully Sony will now have the green light to acquire Capcom. This case proves acquisitions and consolidation are good for consumers.Capcom would cost more than 10B$, Sony aren't going to do that.
By Willkiller Go To PostThe CMA are independent and made their decision, I don't see what this changes unless MS really does want to explore cutting out the UK
Edit: Although I do recognise some tokenistic concessions to the CMA in order to make it look like the CMA had a 'positive' impact on the deal to get regulatory approval is the most likely outcome now.
Procedurally I'm not clear on how they go about it. They can appeal the CMA's decision to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) but it doesn't sound terribly fun.
When appealing the CMA’s substantive decision in a merger case, a judicial review standard applies, meaning the applicant must show that the CMA acted irrationally, illegally or with procedural impropriety. The CAT will not engage with the merits of the CMA’s decision or conduct a wholesale review of the parties’ evidence. In practice this means that applicants face a high threshold when seeking to overturn a merger decision, which is reflected in the statistics: the CMA has won 67% of all merger appeals since 2010.
Even if an applicant successfully appeals the CMA’s substantive assessment in a merger, the CAT will not make a fresh decision, but will instead remit the case back to the CMA for further review –typically by the same decision makers and case team as previously. This may not be an attractive prospect, particularly if the deal economics or environment have changed since the transaction was first signed (months or years previously).
Edit: or they can just negotiate it out, sounds easier lol
By LFMartins86 Go To PostCapcom would cost more than 10B$, Sony aren't going to do that.
Don’t think that would be a problem for them. But I expect a lot of “Sony can’t, Sony won’t” after this. We will see, I don’t know.
FTC had such a shit case the judge had to remind them they were supposed to show harm to consumers, but they focused only on console harm to Sony. (About a whole 3-5% total market harm. Gasp).
You'd think it would be easy to do this, but so far it's all been about how the market leader is going to potentially lose some games and Sony only gamers would have to consider other options if they want some of these games. The horror.
You'd think it would be easy to do this, but so far it's all been about how the market leader is going to potentially lose some games and Sony only gamers would have to consider other options if they want some of these games. The horror.
By Crusher Go To PostDon’t think that would be a problem for them. But I expect a lot of “Sony can’t, Sony won’t” after this. We will see, I don’t know.It would definitely be an issue for them and Capcom would have to be interesting in being acquired which seems highly unlikely. There would be no legal issue if they went for it.
By LFMartins86 Go To PostCapcom would cost more than 10B$, Sony aren't going to do that.While I don’t know about Capcom this is surely going to open floodgates for both to buy more. Phil has his manifest destiny list he is about to go down to the next one and Jimbo is gonna buy whatever he can.
By jjasper Go To PostWhile I don’t know about Capcom this is surely going to open floodgates for both to buy more. Phil has his manifest destiny list he is about to go down to the next one and Jimbo is gonna buy whatever he can.For sure, Sony are going to make moves.
Still amazed on how quickly CMA changed their tune after the FTC decision. This will close quicker than I expected.
The FTC and CMA could probably build better cases on more important issues, like MS AI acquisitions, or Amazon buying irobot (that was a fucking slam dunk), things that could actually monopolize industries but here they are wasting their time with this one because it's a lot of money, and they approved those others without even taking a look. (AI alone is bound to be one of the most cutthroat markets out there and will have an effect of a ton of industries and everyone's lives, but here they are worrying if cloud will grow to be about 5% of gaming in the next decade).
Surely this will send a strong message to big tech that the party is over, right?
Surely this will send a strong message to big tech that the party is over, right?
Sony gave $$$$$$ to those dummies in Washedington to start the process of ending the acquisition
They asked for more $$$$ to finish it but Sony passed and Microsoft paid
The house always wins
👀
They asked for more $$$$ to finish it but Sony passed and Microsoft paid
The house always wins
👀
By Laboured Go To PostPhil wonWorse than 9/11
Edit: @reilo Threads embedding when?
By inky Go To PostThe FTC and CMA could probably build better cases on more important issues, like MS AI acquisitions, or Amazon buying irobot (that was a fucking slam dunk), things that could actually monopolize industries but here they are wasting their time with this one because it's a lot of money, and they approved those others without even taking a look. (AI alone is bound to be one of the most cutthroat markets out there, but here they are worrying if cloud will grow to be about 5% of gaming in the next decade).
Surely this will send a strong message to big tech that the party is over, right?
This is basically a green lit for massive industry consolidation. If you can’t stop this acquisition on the basis that even if MS turns ABK into a console exclusive machine, only 5% of people would switch platforms, then what can you stop? If this isn’t anti competitive then there’s really no acquisition that is anti competitive.
It’s weird to see. But you are right, regulators don’t seem to be able to do anything anywhere of note. Guess they stopped Nvidia buying ARM…
dw lads, there will be plenty of third person games with marvel dialogue banter for the playstation, not sure what you are worrying about.
Predictable. Weird how it went on for so long. The worlds second largest megacorp in the US courts lol.
Also, the FTC were did not come correct.
Consolidation is not good for the consumer. Turning 3rd party IPs into content to be walled off is also bad for the consumers see the current streaming hellscape where no one gets all things they like unless they sub to at least 6 different services.
What I didn’t see coming was the CMA folding so quickly.
Also, the FTC were did not come correct.
Consolidation is not good for the consumer. Turning 3rd party IPs into content to be walled off is also bad for the consumers see the current streaming hellscape where no one gets all things they like unless they sub to at least 6 different services.
What I didn’t see coming was the CMA folding so quickly.
Consolidation was always gonna happen, and everyone has known for years if not decades. Ask Sony how it went for them in the music industry. We all saw the mess in the movie industry too. Which is why you need stronger legislation, and the FTC needs to stop bleeding talent sending their lawyers out to get exposed arguing such poorly thrown together cases.
They never focused on future potential harm through massive consolidation or anything like that. Let alone harm to consumers which has never been a focus through all the bullshit the games industry pulls, like for example cutthroat exclusive deals which have been its bread and butter forever.
The whole crux of the argument is and always has been "Call of Duty is too big, poor Sony can't live without it". Well, guess what, Sony could and they are gonna get it anyway, and that's all they focused their case on.
They never focused on future potential harm through massive consolidation or anything like that. Let alone harm to consumers which has never been a focus through all the bullshit the games industry pulls, like for example cutthroat exclusive deals which have been its bread and butter forever.
The whole crux of the argument is and always has been "Call of Duty is too big, poor Sony can't live without it". Well, guess what, Sony could and they are gonna get it anyway, and that's all they focused their case on.
By WoodenLung Go To Postdw lads, there will be plenty of third person games with marvel dialogue banter for the playstation, not sure what you are worrying about.OTOH, The Movies re-release is back on the menu m9
I've never cared about this
By s y Go To PostWorse than 9/11😂
By DY_nasty Go To PostI've never cared about thisI'm just here for the Smokey gloats and psy tears
😂
By inky Go To PostOTOH, The Movies re-release is back on the menu m9
damn, i didnt even realize. BIG PHIL
MS checks cleared and it'll get approved.
Another step towards industry consilidation and stagnation.
MS can just use their infinite money cheat to buy everyone else now.
Another step towards industry consilidation and stagnation.
MS can just use their infinite money cheat to buy everyone else now.
By DY_nasty Go To PostI've never cared about this🍻
By s y Go To Post@Yurt, NG+ is a decent step up but Ultimaniac mode(NG+ exclusive arcade mode difficulty) is fucking ridiculous. There are like 50 people on the globe who've even completed some of the stages. Difficulty aside, the scoring system is broken for that mode.Sounds good!!
I hope they add in a strictly boss-only replay mode.
Wait why dont we have that already
By Laboured Go To PostMain thing is inky now gets D4 on GamePass.I already bought it 😭
By Laboured Go To PostLooks pretty good, I still need to pick up their Atari collection.
Have they said when the Cyberpunk update that will bring the improvements from the DLC to the main game will be out? At the same time as the DLC I imagine?
By Pedja Go To PostHave they said when the Cyberpunk update that will bring the improvements from the DLC to the main game will be out? At the same time as the DLC I imagine?They want to but it will take more time than that.
