This is terrible news. The last thing the gaming industry needs is more consolidation. We’re already seeing the effect in streaming and tech companies. The tech world is basically run by Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Apple.
It’s only a matter of time before they lock out Call of Duty from other platforms. “Oh but Sony already had exclusives” is missing the point. I don’t even care about consoles. Exclusives are anti-consumer and bad for gamers in general.
And make no mistake, they’re going to push the games to a subscription model on the metrosexual app store, a store which is such a failure its been shown to be worse than the already cancerous Denuvo. In some cases you have to reinstall Windows to fix non-working UWP games.
Also once again it appears sexual misconduct gets a free pass with no punishment for anyone, only golden parachutes. Multiple complaints have already been logged to police, so where’s the criminal investigation into Kotick? Why isn’t he on trial in front of a judge? Oh that’s right, because once companies get big enough, they’re immune from the law.