Microsoft Buying Activision Blizzard Is Bad

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You've played Monopoly before, right? Sure you have. I mean, there's Pokemon monopoly, Rick & Morty Monopoly, Game of Thrones Monopoly, every major city in the world has its own Monopoly... there are so many Monopolies you could probably have a Monopoly where all the properties are different versions of Monopoly. In fact, Jerry, write that down and send it to Uncle Pennybags. Anyway, there are a bajillion versions of Monopoly in the world and - true story - no one has ever finished a game because Monopoly is garbage. Don't worry though, it's supposed to be.

Monopoly was invented as an anti-fun board game in order to show the dangers that come when one rich company buys up everything and can charge whatever they like for it. Of course, because capitalism sucks, it’s now just a game where you put a hotel on Charizard or whatever the hotels are in the Pokemon version. Gyms, probably. The reason I'm talking about monopoly is because Microsoft has just bought Activision Blizzard for $70 billion, and that feels like bad news.

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To some of you, it probably feels like good news. The situation at Activision Blizzard has hit such lows that for all the reasons stated here, and more, TheGamer does not typically cover Activision Blizzard news unless it relates to the ongoing lawsuits and alleged workplace abuses. Our stance will remain that way until we see meaningful structural changes, regardless of the buyout - and with Bobby Kotick due to stay in his position for now, those changes will come slow, if they ever come at all.

Still, Bobby Kotick used to be at the top of the tree. He now reports to Phil Spencer - by all accounts a pretty