This must be terrible for people that work in gaming. What if you don't work at one studio, and then there are only 3 others you can realistically go to and make enough $ to earn a living? Will that number just continue to decrease over time?
There are like 20 game publishers that are worth over a billion dollars. Gaming is much, much bigger than you think, this is just rearranging the deck chairs.
Note that the unions representing Activision developerd (part of the CWA) supported the merger because Microsoft was more willing to work with the union than Activision and signed a labour neutrality agreement (whereas Activision repeatedly used union-busting tactics)
