• NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    And they just got done suing Xbox so Microsoft couldn’t own the Modern Warfare IP.

    Caveats like “they own it, they don’t pay so others can’t own it” are meaningless at ground level.

    • nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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      8 months ago

      While it sucks that large companies buy smaller ones, Microsoft is far far worse in this regard and there is a large difference between buying a small 100 man team vs buying an entire publisher and dozens of ip’s for almost 70 billion dollars.