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Is it? Facebook is trying to "take over" areas not at all related to social media in order to gain more data and could act as a loss-leader in the game developer space just in order to bolster market share in other areas. Preventing that seems to be better for consumers in general.


Isn't that what Microsoft is doing as well?

If Microsoft is allowed to buy Activision Blizzard they would have bought the vast majority of the most popular video game series in the world.

Minecraft, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Elder Scrolls are all top selling game franchises.

The only company that would have more top selling game franchise would be Nintendo and they created all of them for themselves.

Why is Microsoft allowed to buy all of these game studios but Facebook can't buy a single VR studio?


> Isn't that what Microsoft is doing as well?

Yes. And Amazon. And Google. And others.

What the the US government is doing, I have no idea about, but they don't seem to care a lot about preventing huge companies from taking over entire markets, even those not related to their core business. Which already is hurting consumers, but the worst has yet to come.


Has that acquisition been approved? You’re implying that it has, but last I heard of it, it was being investigated by both the FTC and the CMA in the UK.




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