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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: Pissed_Macman on 23 January 2003, 05:53

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 23 January 2003, 05:53

Seriously I am going to go fucking insane if this is true!! IN THE NAME ALL THAT IS HOLY AND GOOD, LEAVE BLIZZARD ALONE DAMMIT!!!

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/22/2233227.shtml?tid=127 (http://slashdot.org/articles/03/01/22/2233227.shtml?tid=127)

[ January 22, 2003: Message edited by: Macman: dumb retart / BOB ]

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: SpeeDFreaK on 23 January 2003, 06:36

Yes, I read it too. Damn shame.

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: mobrien_12 on 23 January 2003, 07:23

*(#$.....

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: cahult on 23 January 2003, 21:08

Macman, are you sure you don

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: Doctor V on 23 January 2003, 19:10

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

This can't be.  I love warcraft!  Now I'm gonna have to boycott it!  Damn M$ to hell, damn them!  Don't expect any bliz games to be released on Linux (or mac) ever.    :(    :eek:    :(

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: Pantso on 23 January 2003, 19:14

Although I'm not much of a gamer myself, that is a fuckin' shame.   :(

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: Ice-9 on 23 January 2003, 20:11

It's a shame indeed, but it's a logical move for M$.
"If you can't beat them, assimilate them"
Once assimilated, companies can be eradicated much easier too, though here it would probably mean no pc games anymore, or pc games for Windows only, and probably 1 year after they came out for X-Box!!!

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: Refalm on 23 January 2003, 20:58

They want to buy Valve too! There goes the support for the Linux Half-Life server...

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: KernelPanic on 23 January 2003, 21:57

feck!

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: emh on 24 January 2003, 03:14

Calm down, everyone.  No certain deals have been made yet.  Nothing has been done, yet.  It's not a done deal.

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 24 January 2003, 21:45

Microsoft not only destroys business, but creativity itself. There will never be another company like Blizzard, ever.

Now it gets personal. (http://www.taoofwarcraft.com/forum/phpbb/images/smiles/icon_evil.gif)

[ January 24, 2003: Message edited by: Macman: dumb retart / BOB ]

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: panic8 on 25 January 2003, 02:34

I knew this would happen.  Too bad.  M$ should not be allowed enter any other industry.  They have too much influence and too much money.  The gaming industry (or should I say the console industry) will become just like the PC industry today, even worse, as you don't have middle parties like OEMs involved, just M$.  Those who think this won't happen, well, just wait and see.

Here's how it goes:

1.  Microsoft use their influence from the PC monopoly and extend it to the gaming industry
2.  They steal PS2 titles and make them exclusives to xbox
3.  They pay companies to develop their games only for xbox
4.  They buy the companies and they (of course) have them develop their games only for xbox.  They also aquire their techniques etc. for games.

WHEN (not if) the xbox reaches popularity
1.  Games will be devloped M$'s proprietary Directx standard; games will not be portable to other platforms, such as PS2 and GC, or not as easily.  Porting games, even if the companies wanted it, becomes impossible (third-party game famine for competing consoles).
2.  Gaming companies will be forced to develop their games with M$ and xbox; M$ will also have ownership over the game.  Would protective companies like EA support this?  They'll have no choice.  xbox is the most popular console with the most games and most users, they can't afford not to.  And the gaming companies submitting to this will only contribute to this.
3.  The result is competing companies can't compete because all the gaming companies are either owned or influenced (and paid) heavily by M$, so they get no third party games.

I don't doubt for a second that this deal isn't going through.  That is unless some antitrust case doesn't prohibit them from it.

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: PsychoticDreams on 25 January 2003, 03:32

OHHH shit M$ sux ass those bastards i just got off of warcraft 3 oh i hate M$ i wish they would jsut quit their shit bill gates already has 90 billion what more does he need can't he just play fair and not fuck peoples lives

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 25 January 2003, 05:05

Gates is no longer concerned about money. Now he wants power.

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: Kintaro on 25 January 2003, 10:17

Valve, any company but valve, and they thought it was to easy to hack CS and cheat on games already, just wait till Microsoft own it.

I dont care about Blizzard, there games are good, but there is FreeCraft which can have the Warcraft II files loaded into it. And as development continues, it will be more compatible.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THATS NOT TRUE THATS IMPOSSIBLE"
"YOU KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE, VALVE JOIN YOUR USUAL HOST OPEATING SYSTEM AND AS FATHER AND SON WE WILL RULE THE GALAXY."

[ January 25, 2003: Message edited by: X11: Doing YA MUM ]

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: Pissed_Macman on 26 January 2003, 05:54

quote:

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Several Posts on this thread made me laugh out loud ... like the hunting down and killing of puny employees icon_razz.gif U guys never cease to slay me! haha

I'm going with the positive vibes from this. Microsoft knows a good thing when they see it ... and I dont think they'll be charging in to fuck it all up! I see good things coming now that Blizz has all the financial backing in the UNIVERSE! icon_twisted.gif

I admire Bill Gates and his crew. Them mother fuckers CREATED the computer world we live in today ... and slick ass mother fucker got to be the richest man in the world doing it! lol ...

Gates is my Hero!

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This was a post by a member at the Tao of Warcraft forums. Can you believe this???  :eek:

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: voidmain on 26 January 2003, 06:25

Maybe BG created the computer world that luser lives in, but he certainly had nothing to do with the computer world I live in, and I'm very thankful and happy about that..

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: dot.this on 26 January 2003, 07:01

You all have my sympathy. I know what this is like. When MS "assimilated" Bungie a few years back, the reaction from the Mac gamers was about the same.

The good news is, eventually one outgrows games.

The bad news is, MS goes after more than just game companies.

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: UODU on 29 January 2003, 01:06

Do you think if we shaved Bills head we'd find the 666?

Title: BLOODY HELL!!!!
Post by: hm_murdock on 29 January 2003, 05:06

no. we'd find a bunch of blinkenlights, kinda like data's positronic brain. gates is a fucking robot, sent by the aliens from independence day to weaken earth before they come and take it over