The obsessive interest in Microsoft’s eye-watering $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard has hit new highs – or lows, depending on your perspective – as fans have taken to tracking the flights of a private Sony jet. A strangely engaged fanbase has discovered that a plane from London to Seattle was charted on 6th February, with some assuming it was boarded by PlayStation bigwigs looking to negotiate a deal on Call of Duty with the Xbox team.
Of course, there’s absolutely no evidence of that being the case, and it’s worth mentioning that Sony first-party developer Bungie is based in Bellevue, which is a stone’s throw away from Seattle. It’s infinitely more likely, if this flight was indeed boarded by top-ranking PlayStation executives, it’d be visiting its own team rather than its rival.
Nevertheless, it underlines just how oddly obsessed some fans are with this acquisition going through. The latest on the situation is that Microsoft is scheduled to meet with the European Commission next week to engage in crunch talks about the deal, as both the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority and the United States’ Federal Trade Commission have sought to block it.
[source twitter.com, via eurogamer.net]
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That thumbnail is the stuff of nightmares.
i know it's all publicly available data,but i can't help but feel that this comes off as a bit of stalker syndrome.
weird.
GAMERS RISE UP!
Can't wait for the Hollywood movie to be made about all of this lol
@jdv95 Who's got the time?!
That thumbnail kills me
What zero p**** does to a mf
Regardless of what side of the fence you're on, the idea that there are people sending letters to the CMA and/or harassing the CMA on the Twitter over the ABK deal, is just... I mean there's such a thing as being too invested to the point it simply becomes pathetic.
@get2sammyb stealing that tagline from Eurogamer comments!
I want MS to just get ActiBliz, not because they deserve it but because I'm so tired of seeing this drama...
@get2sammyb When you have no games to play except Flight Simulator 🤣
A delisional idiot with plenty of time to waste
Yeah, I'd think Sony would make them fly to their offices.
Tracking flights. Flippin hell.
Most of us just want screenshots of the next big game.
@get2sammyb 3 things
1. Their proof it's a Sony plane is a social media Flickr post
2. Sony have at least 3 studios in Seattle
3. Why are you giving loons a platform?
Certain people would consider that stalking. Seems like some people have way too much time on their hands.
Some Xbox fanboys are super weird 😂. I’m just ready for this Activision deal to get block already for we stop hearing about it.
Some people take this way too seriously…
However, if true, it may imply Sony knows their battle is lost and the deal is actually going through.
@IOI how Sony lost and deal going through when the regulators with the power to block the deal are against the deal.
@themightyant Didn't even think of Sucker Punch! You're quite right!
@IOI only last week bobby was saying Sony hadnt spoke to Microsoft.
Sony doing all the advertising/showing how they are doing etc probably shows they feel like they will lose. rather than a flight.
@get2sammyb Valkyrie Entertainment too
Invested in - I want those toys and I don't want you to play with them!
@Americansamurai1
I mean if gamestonk has more than one movie this is plausible lol.
@Deemo37 wonder who would play Jim and Phil lol
@ManifoldCuriosity i made a comment to somebody on facebook under a SF5 post because they said “dont care until it’s on xbox” or something like that , then i said something like “xbox’s been dead for about a decade , this gotta be a joke 😂” , it got a lot of funny reactions & some random weirdo sent me a DM with every vulgar word in the book calling me a sony pony and other ***** . he blocked me too .
Seriously do not care anymore. There is nothing we can do. The endless stories can stop.
Pure Xbox has a fair few loons.
I own and visit websites for Sony, Xbox, Nintendo and steam deck…. I don’t agree with everything any of them do, they all make mistakes, they all have toxic elements in their fanbases, by far and away the worse are the Xbox only crew, Xbox can be like cult, they must not be questioned.
Any idiot can see the Activision deal is bad for gamers. Even Xbox gamers. It’s another load of IPs to squeeze into the 4 AAA (max) exclusives a year on GPU. It’ll be years before we see games like fallout and doom already, let alone throwing SpYro and everything else in the mix. We had zero AAA exclusives last year on GPU.
I’d rather pay for exclusives and get more. Keep 3rd party IPs 3rd party.
That thumbnail is poisonous
@3Above
Yeah their games are weaker than ps now, but it's not right to say they only have flight simulator
Wow...This is actually so sad. Some people need to get their lives sorted out.
@4kgk2 I’m just ready for some Unreal engine 5 games to drop.
@UltimateOtaku91 all fanboys are a negative mark on the industry. All and any. I have all 3 consoles and find all 3 do something really good and have things to improve upon. Not sure how someone doesn’t have the maturity level to see that and just buy and enjoy what they choose too.
This is right up there with the last of us 2 “fans” and the God of War harassment that Corey called out. It’s sad what “fans” do to the industry and the great Men and Women that produce these games for us gamers.
@Green-Bandit
They're even bad for the company they like, remember when some fans send death treat messages to people who working at Santa Monica just because gow ragnarok gets delayed?
Someone should track the flight path in the latest Flight Simulator to make sure the plane is not intentionally flying above cities whose first letters spell "COD" or some such.
Wouldn't be surprised if someone was already on it.
@Wiiiiiiiii yep thats what i mentioned, it’s insanely bad for the industry and going to cause future talented people to reconsider joining a toxic work and fan environment. Behaviors like this will only lessen the industry not strengthen it. I have all 3 consoles and think the way gamers treat each other for the brand they bought or choose to like more is insanely immature. From a fan’s experience and family of the hobby so to speak this is the worse of my hobbies by far. None of my hunting and fishing communities treat each other this way. Gaming is toxic and it’s the fans online that are making it such that way.
@jorel262 @Ashina Sooner this deal ends the better...very annoying every time a new "update" spawns about this.
@ManifoldCuriosity Full of hypocrites over there as well.
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