RE: Microsoft buys Zenimax for $7.5B | Biggest purchase of the year?

99% sure, good news

I think I will be the contrarian and go with the opposite. When game companies get bought the players lose. When Microsoft buys something they monopolize and increase the price after initially under cutting competitors prices. I remember the navigator wars, between Netscape and Microsoft Explorer. I remember something called Lotus Suites office soft ware, Word Perfect and a host of other software types that Microsoft did not want completion in. So I think it will be a loss for the game players.

I remember a time when it was the game makers pushing the technology frontiers and the hardware builders needed to keep up. New games would come out that would barely play on older system. All the tweaking of DOS batch and config files to get the games to run, then came windows and it's blue screens of death. So no I don't hold your faith that 99% sure good news.