• NotAnonymousAtAll@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    By joining hands with Activision Blizzard, we hope to achieve our vision of enabling people to connect and play fabulous gambling games anytime, anywhere, and anyhow they like.

    (emphasis mine)

    So the CEO of Microsoft obviously has no idea about the difference between gaming and gambling. Fair enough, nobody has to care about every possible hobby. But it is a bit wild that they just took that quote and ran with it and nobody said “Hey, is it ok to slightly edit it so it is less obvious you don’t know jack shit about this topic?”.

    • Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Uh, I’ma go ahead and assume “gamecensor” isn’t a legit source and we should probably be reading articles written by actually reputable organizations reporting on this merger, because there’s no way that line is real and also the punctuation is so incoherent in TFA I can’t tell who supposedly said it.

    • dan1101@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Maybe the CEO skimmed some headlines about lootboxes being considered gambling. Now he thinks Call of Duty is a casino game.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know if I’m just being dumb and missing a joke here, but the statement doesn’t say gambling.

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        1 year ago

        I thought the same but I looked again and it’s in there lol, about 9th or 10th paragraph from the bottom of the article (before the “more shit you might like” section).

        It doesn’t even seem like it was even taken out of context from the article lol.

        “We ju$t care $o much about connecting all the gamer$$$ around the world.” - giant soulless corporation

    • june 🌿@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      this is actually hilarious that that’s part of the statement, lmao

      just awful, all around