Merging with another company and declaring bankruptcy while being bought out by a bigger corporation are not the same thing. Companies do this shit all the time. This isn't Micosoft buying Activison. It's not even the first time WBs has done this. I get you have a massive hard on for WB to die but you're putting the cart before the horse.
Ok. I had to step away from this conversation yesterday, cause... both your last replies were... what the fuck are you talking about?
Look if you want to have a discussion about this, please READ FULLY what I write. Cause I get a feeling you just skip through entire text and then write stuff, that makes no sense. So I will try to number my points, so you don't get lost again:
1. I literally said in my last posts, that WB won't just put a sign on their door saying "OUT OF BUSINESS". The merger is happening, because both Paramount and WB are in deep financial shit. WB HAS to merge, or it faces Bankruptcy. Right now the way they are going, they have 60% chance of going bankrupt. So if they want to avoid that, they have to merge with another Corporation.
2. I don't have a "hard on" for anything WB or even Disney. The only reason why these corporations survive is not because of investors, not because of their influence, or even their IPs, but because of the stupid fucks that keep buying their stuff, then proceed to both defend and cry about how shit it is. If anyone tried to release MK1 in 2000-2010 for even 60 bucks, people would have told them to fuck off. But now you have people that defend these practices by acting like addicts "Well, boycotting wouldn't do anything to them". Yes it would, but nobody wants to do that, cause they just want to buy the next latest thing. So I don't need to want anything for corporations, if anything it would be more accurate to say that I have a "massive hard on" for people to grow enough brain cells to rub them together. But that is both weird and it ain't happening.
3. The biggest "WTF" is your... logic? About Disney and WB. Once again... like I said BEFORE. Why are we even bringing Disney into this? Conversation was about WB. Comparing them is insane. Your argument there, made NO SENSE whatsoever.
MY LOGIC is very simple. Let me simplify for you it even more.
Imagine WB as a modern sailboat. It is massive. The size of Galleon. And then you have Disney. It is a cruise ship. It makes WB look like a rowboat by size alone. If now I used a cannon to accurately fire at both of these ships. Which one do you think would go down first? That's MY logic. It can't get any more simple, than that. Disney can get away with more stuff. They have more assets, they have more funds, they have more power, they have more everything. They can take more hits, cause they have more HP. WB on other hand has to keep merging with other corporations, to survive now, otherwise they are DONE. You get me now?
Right now we are in the state of CONSOLIDATION. Corporations will be merging to survive. In the next few years, we will see more of these corporations merge. And once merging won't be possible, then we will see corporations buying each other out. The biggest titans are Apple and Microsoft. They the biggest fish in the pond right now, so other corporations who are bleeding money, are merging to have a chance to survive against them.
As for corporations to die... like I said. People would have to stop buying their shit. Investors don't invest in something, if people don't buy stuff. But people don't have standards nowadays. They buy anything shiny. Nowadays you have people justifying the purchase of MK1 or paying 20 bucks, just to play "Diablo 4" 3 days early. The last one is especially funny, as people try to justify that purchase with some economic logic. Nah, man you're just retarded and you're funding the stupidity. Hence why Activision is now preparing for an idea to sell an expansion for 100$. Cause they know that people will buy this shit. They are just prepping people.
So if people won't do anything about it? What then? The only answer competition. Make better games at lower price. You win instantly. IN the market with no standards, people used to paying for everything... if suddenly we got a company that came in and released a fun game, that functions day one, has a fair price, loads of content and modding support or tools that allow community to make more content? They would shoot to the top. But nobody is gonna do that. Cause everyone sees that they can get away with anything nowadays. This is why Mobile style gaming is the future. People are funding their own demise and they don't care.
gotta get my fighting game fix on.
