Games Inbox: Sony x Bungie acquisition worries, yearly Call Of Duty, and Into The Breach love
The Tuesday Inbox has trouble remembering which zombie game is which, as one reader worries that NFTs are proof the world’s gone mad.
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Only the beginning I was dismayed to hear the recent rumours of Sony looking to buy EA, and then out of nowhere they go and buy Bungie. It’s been my worry that there’ll be a buying war ever since ZeniMax, and it looks like that’s where we are going.
The reason industry consolidation bothers me is because it is my sense that games get worse as a result. So, I ask the other readers; is there any example of a gaming publisher massively expanding through mergers or acquisitions that resulted in better quality subsequent releases? I can’t think of one, but given the current forecast, I would like to be told otherwise.
Bungie is thankfully not as bad as buying EA, since it’s just one studio, but I can’t help but think that this isn’t the end of it. Ultimately, I think it would be better for gamers if more studios were independent, and it’s a shame Bungie has been gobbled up.Twig Boss
Mad world I feel like I’ve said this an awful lot in the last few years but does anyone else feel like the world is literally going mad? Trump, Brexit, COVID, cryptocurrency, NFTs… did IQs suddenly drop in the last decade, or has it always been like this and I never noticed?
NFTs are so stupid it almost seems like a joke. An almost literal Emperor’s New Clothes that some rich businessmen are daring us to call out as nonsense. And if we don’t then something even stupider will happen next.
As other readers have said, I applaud GC’s zero tolerance approach to them and this constant stream of announcements and retractions would be hilarious if not for the
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