I mean the Activision case was a bad case though. Microsoft bought their way into… Third place, it’s not enough to need anti trust. Furthermore, Starfield and Indy were already going to be exclusives, those are Bethesda and that acquisition was already long since completed. Plus, it’s not like that’s the invention of exclusives. Sony isn’t exactly pumping over their games to Xbox here.

What, you’ve never seen someone artistically pole dance before?

My wife and enjoyed the cooperative greatly but soooo much went wrong

I think you’re putting an awful lot of blame on ME2. Visceral combat in no way precludes good storytelling.