"In a ruling submitted today, Judge Corley said the following:

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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    1 year ago

    I don’t care about “monopolies” and “consolidation”

    I just care about the possibility of Guitar Hero being revived god dammit

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      Clone hero is fun.

      I gave up on guitar hero after they implemented the greedy “tokens” model on GH: Live. It was very lame. You had to play a radio station of sorts to get tokens. Tokens could be used to play a song of your choice. When you ran out you had to play the radio station or buy more with real money lol.

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        Does Clone Hero have the character customization thing? It’s totally pointless, but I enjoyed having my custom band on the stage.

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          I’m not sure, I played with a bland black background and just had the note highway. There are backgrounds you can add in but you have to tinker to do it

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        I love CH. Haven’t played in years though.

        GH:TV was super cool though in my opinion, but yeah the token stuff was dumb. I spent a lot of time just jamming to music videos. That’s basically all I did in Love lol

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      The only games I ever sold my soul for were eudemon online, guitar hero, for a short while destiny, and stardew valley.

      I have been bored with most games that have came out throughout the timeline but guitar hero holds a special place in my heart and I would absolutely love to have a new one come out.

      We tried the band one a while back and it just didn’t hit the same.

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        I too became addicted to destiny during beyond light and witch queen. I finally kicked the habit before lightfall. Based on the reviews, looks like we made the right choice !