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Cake day: June 25th, 2023

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  • Not a huge deal. Microsoft has every incentive to keep Call of Duty on the market leading console. Considering we’re about halfway through this cycle based on history, that means Microsoft would have left CoD on PlayStation 5 for another 3-4 years. This deal is very obviously only happening due to the anti-trust case, and because of the aforementioned 3-4 years it basically just says “we agree to put CoD on PS6 regardless of how well it does.”

    Of course, when the companies merge, no regulatory body is going to actually keep Microsoft to their word with penalties high enough to care about.

    This merger is bad for the industry without a doubt in my mind.







  • Sure, but does it show any signs of working?

    So far, we’ve seen interactions on the site fall maybe as much as 20% despite an overwhelming majority of large subreddits being private or restricted, impacting tens of millions of users.

    https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

    Huffman mentioned that revenues were not significantly impacted and the noise will pass. So far, he appears to be correct. Now that we’re in the 3rd day, many subreddits have returned and interactions are almost back to pre-blackout levels.

    Clearly some other shoe needs to drop before the protestors win.