I am tired and achy
Hi, nice to meet you.
Can I get you anything?
A drink, a bite to eat, anacquisitionmaybe?
There are apparently a lot of them to go around, after all.
It’s Sony buying Bungie.
It’s Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard.
They were on the phone to me at the time, putting an offer on my flat.
I am tired of these big companies buying everything.
Can we just slow down for a hot second and chill out a bit, hey?
If you hadn’t heard,Sony are buying Destiny devs Bungie for $3.6 billion.
Give it up for Sony everyone!
That’s positive… right?
We get the importance of this.
We have grown studios organically, but we’ve also made a number of acquisitions over the years.
Whether it is Naughty Dog, Guerrilla Games, Suckerpunch Productions and most recently Insomniac.
Initially, it doesn’t seem so bad.
Instead, they have a “shared vision” with Bungie and that’s all there is to it.
And yet, poof.
Japan Studio underwent a sudden restructure in February last year.
Some indie developers havealready distanced themselvesfrom the situation, too.
The corpos in their glass kingdoms call the shots, some of which may come as a nasty surprise.
What happens once 2024 ticks into 2025?
Will Destiny 2’s future expansions become PlayStation exclusives?
Personally, the most surprising thing to me is that Sony are still hungry to acquire more studios.
In fact, they are starving.
I wonder who’s next?
Or rather, who’s left?
They acquire, so we, the players, may profit.
But really, corporate takeovers mean one thing.
A gradual lessening of liberties in favour of the moola, the dollar, the dinero.
And we don’t want that.
We, the players, deserve better.
