The writing has been on the wall about companies not wanting to sell physical media (or anything not giving them later passive income) for a while. MS/Xbox are just the latest to make it more obvious.
Calling out individual companies is less useful than calling out industries.
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Regulators: And you promise you won’t be evil this time Microsoft if we grant the application to acquire Activision?
Microsoft: Of course not, what would give you the idea we would be evil, look, we’re even going to allow those using our competitor’s platform of PlayStation the option to buy the Call of Duty
Regulators: Well alright since you promise.
Microsoft: taps head They can’t buy our games on a competitor’s console if we kill off the physical media division and then engineer a spat over fees Sony charges for their digital store in a few years and they’ll be seen as the unreasonable ones!
Yep. If only my channel wasn’t in a hiatic limbo
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
