1) The motion sickness thing goes away.
Its not necessarily that simple. Essentially, you can be glad if it is true for you, but it does not go away for everyone (or at least takes considerably longer).
It is still affecting me. And I have a rift, so I have at least somewhat frequent exposure.
Games where you are more or less static are fine. Straight movements are usually fine, even if fast. Turns and curves are the problem. Depending on these factors, I can do hours, or else have to stop after as little as a few minutes.What games make you nauseous? All of them or just some? How often do you use it, for how long each session and what was the longest stretch of continued use?
While I realize 'motion sickness' is often used to describe the effect with VR when it's actually a slightly different mechanism, for simplicity sake I'll keep using it… Do you get motion sickness doing other activities (boating, driving, etc?)
In terms of MS acquiring EA, I'd be interested to know if the FTC would be ok with that. After all, EA is an extremely large publisher, and Microsoft already has had issues with trying to be labeled a monopoly.
A monopoly? Microsoft? That ship is gone since at least 10-15 years. Today MS is helping Linux with agreements with RedHat, Suse and some others. They also returned Office on the MacOS so it could develop in the enterprise.
It does not impact the revenue significantly and it makes all those issue disappear.
As for the game editors, nope. MS is third in size, EA is 6. Sony is as big than the 2 together.
Yes, you are right but we were talking about Monopoly. PC games are not a huge part of the market. Sony as a publisher, Service provider and hardware builder would probably weight much more than that and they even not port their games on PC.
EU while they have hit MS in the past are more concerned nowadays with Google and FB.
When talking about monopolies in the legal sense though, it is almost never a true 100% monopoly - usually a high degree of dominance is enough to trigger the concern. I think what the trade commissions would be alarmed about is a company having dominance of the desktop market, then buying a dominant distributor, and then locking people into that distributor through their control of the user platform.
I'd be very surprised if this actually happens. I'd find a buyout of EA, mainly to get the IPs, much more plausible.
Steam would turn into a steaming pile under MS. EA might actually improve under MS.
A monopoly? Microsoft? That ship is gone since at least 10-15 years. Today MS is helping Linux with agreements with RedHat, Suse and some others. They also returned Office on the MacOS so it could develop in the enterprise.
It does not impact the revenue significantly and it makes all those issue disappear.
As for the game editors, nope. MS is third in size, EA is 6. Sony is as big than the 2 together.