As always, the EU is dumb as fuck (or corrupt as fuck... looking at recent EU corruption scandals who knows if M$ didn't simply pay for this decision?).

What a bunch of bullshit. It is very clear what Microsoft's next mission statement is going to be: Eliminate all cloud gaming competition to make these EU requirements void. And they have an excellent chance of achieving that goal. GamePass is already a force to be reckoned with and Microsoft will naturally continue to aggressively promote their services.

Microsoft is making $2.3 trillion per year and their net profit (yes, NET PROFIT) was $72 billion in 2022. They can easily afford and keep up the GamePass promo campaigns for centuries.

While all of this may be good news for short-sighted gamers as Microsoft will keep pushing GamePass aggressively with price dumping, the long term consequences will not be favorable to put it mildly.

Luckily there is a large indie games market on Steam but AAA will be dominated in monopoly fashion by Microsoft before too long. Thanks for nothing to the EU dumbasses.

Finally, to illustrate just how fucking stupid and clueless they are, here is a quote from TPU's article with a direct quote from the EU docs...

EU antitrust regulators have found that Microsoft "would have no incentive to refuse to distribute Activision's games to Sony" and that "even if Microsoft did decide to withdraw Activision's games from the PlayStation, this would not significantly harm competition in the home gaming console market."

^ ROFL ... I'm actually more inclined to believe that M$ bought the EU decision because even for EU standards this is fucking DUMBER than DUMB