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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Honestly I hope WhatsApp (yeah I know Meta are date harvester extraordinares) pull out the second this passes.

    WhatsApp is by far the largest messaging service used in the UK. Every company I’ve worked for in the last five years makes extensive use of group WhatsApps. Same with all my friends and family too.

    The public outcry at that loss would potentially be enough to sway politicians away from such BS. Anything short of WhatsApp going and the British public won’t be technologically literate enough to give a fuck.


  • It does and that’s the real issue.

    MS has the power, reach and financial means to completely steamroll the market by underpricing games pass to kill any competition. Then once they’ve done that they can set prices, control labour and production to reduce costs too and monopolise the market to their shareholders cold dead money grubbing hearts content.

    To put the scale of the issue in perspective.

    Microsoft has a market cap of 2.5 Trillion dollars. Or 2500 billion.

    Sony, Nintendo, Tencent, Valve, EA, Take Two and Ubisoft combined don’t even reach 700 billion. We take Tencent out of the equation and it’s only 300 billion.

    So we’re talking 4x that of all their combined global competition. If we only look at “western” companies its basically 8.5x.

    But getting rid of Bobby Kotick will make gaming better /s





  • Our cup competitions span large parts of the season instead of a single month. Even the truncated format of the FA for Premier league sides who enter at the 3rd Round is 5 months. The league cup again even in shortened format for teams in European competition is 4 months.

    Plus the group stage puts the format much closer to the Champions, Europa and conference league formats.