Microsoft / Activision Deal Leaves Sony Stans in Shambles | M$ Wins Fight Against FTC

[AStrangeName]

Yeah, that wouldn’t happen. Discovery would have to sell off the gaming division separately which was a possibility a couple years ago but no one wanted it without the IP (that they obviously wouldn’t sell) so it would just be a bunch of studios, which we know are worthless cause talent would just slowly leave.

If Microsoft didn’t go for Activision theres a good possibility they would have got Square Enix West, Eidos, Crystal Dynamics, etc. with their IP like Tomb Raider, Deus Ex, Soul Reaver, and they had mobile studios.

Very big missed opportunity there.

The problem was once they gotten Zenimax, they got big headed and think they can go after the big publishers like Activision-Blizzard, but now they jeopardize any future acquisitions they had in mind as they mentioned how they're looking at the Europe and Japan to get studios. Getting Square-Enix West make more logistical sense due to the head branch stop caring about the western branch, but Embracer Group made it out like some thieves in the night.

 

[daze23]

The problem was once they gotten Zenimax, they got big headed and think they can go after the big publishers like Activision-Blizzard, but now they jeopardize any future acquisitions they had in mind as they mentioned how they're looking at the Europe and Japan to get studios. Getting Square-Enix West make more logistical sense due to the head branch stop caring about the western branch, but Embracer Group made it out like some thieves in the night.

yall have to remember that Activision wanted to be bought

 

[ORDER_66]

yall have to remember that Activision wanted to be bought

So is the deal gonna be broken up stopped officially or is MS gonna appeal???

 

[daze23]

So is the deal gonna be broken up stopped officially or is MS gonna appeal???

MS already said they gonna appeal

 

[ORDER_66]

MS already said they gonna appeal

And if it gets rejected again after all of that...

 

[AStrangeName]

yall have to remember that Activision wanted to be bought

I remember that as it was Meta (Facebook) that was going to get them and if Meta changed their minds and Microsoft didn't so interest, it would've possibly been Tencent that would've gotten them.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I remember that as it was Meta (Facebook) that was going to get them and if Meta changed their minds and Microsoft didn't so interest, it would've possibly been Tencent that would've gotten them.

Microsoft approached Activision, and Acitivion went and fielded offers from Meta and one other potential buyer and no one bit higher than Microsoft so they went back and accepted their offer

The initial conversation about an acquisition happened between Spencer and Kotick on November 19th, just three days after the WSJ’s report about the Activision Blizzard CEO and a single day after Spencer said told Xbox staff he was “deeply troubled.” It might have even come up as part of the same conversation.

“In the course of a conversation on a different topic between Mr. Spencer and Mr. Kotick, Mr. Spencer raised that Microsoft was interested in discussing strategic opportunities between Activision Blizzard and Microsoft and asked whether it would be possible to have a call with Mr. Nadella the following day,” the document reads. The next day (a Saturday), Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was apparently more explicit, indicating that “Microsoft was interested in exploring a strategic combination with Activision Blizzard.”
That kicked off nearly two months of conversations between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard into what would become the acquisition announced on January 18th, and you can read the whole blow-by-blow over the course of ten pages in Activision Blizzard’s filing, beginning on page 31. (The copy of the document embedded at the bottom of this article should begin there.) I’ve always wondered what goes on behind the scenes to make these sorts of mega-acquisitions happen, and the document provides an illuminating look at the wheeling and dealing to pull this deal together.

One thing I found interesting was that Activision Blizzard was in touch with four other companies and one individual about some sort of deal in addition to Microsoft. Disappointingly, they are only named as companies A, C, D, and E, and the individual is named as “Individual B,” so we don’t know who else could have ended up owning Call of Duty. None of those deals went through for various reasons — Company E, for example, said it couldn’t do a full acquisition of Activision Blizzard — and Microsoft was rapidly and aggressively pursuing its deal, getting the terms together before some other companies had even entered the picture.

Phil Spencer Approached Activision Blizzard in November Over Possible Acquisition

Microsoft on January 18 announced its plan to acquire Activision Blizzard in a deal worth $68.7 billion. This [...]

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Read exactly how Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal for Activision Blizzard came together

There were nearly two months of negotiations.

www.theverge.com

 

[Ciggavelli]

Meta would be the worst place for Activision. They would lock everything up in a separate app on PC and require you to sign in with your Facebook account. MS is a much better option for gamers

 

[AStrangeName]

Microsoft approached Activision, and Acitivion went and fielded offers from Meta and one other potential buyer and no one bit higher than Microsoft so they went back and accepted their offer

Phil Spencer Approached Activision Blizzard in November Over Possible Acquisition

Microsoft on January 18 announced its plan to acquire Activision Blizzard in a deal worth $68.7 billion. This [...]

www.vgchartz.com

Read exactly how Microsoft’s $68.7 billion deal for Activision Blizzard came together

There were nearly two months of negotiations.

www.theverge.com

Yeah, that's the one. Couldn't remember the exact details.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I wouldn’t be surprised if Netflix was one of the companies

 

[MrLogic]

All this because M$ has no taste to make games on their own.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Microsoft basically tried to pull a fast one with those 10 year deals. Basically using it to spread MTX storefronts to other services that they reap 100% of the benefits from

Microsoft's 'good guy' approach frays in UK gaming battle

Microsoft’s charm offensive with the world’s governments is starting to lose some of its luster as the software giant is confronting its toughest antitrust scrutiny since co-founder Bill Gates was in charge. A blow came this week when British regulators said they would block Microsoft’s planned...

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Basically, this is Microsoft and Brad Smith throwing their toys out of the pram after they didn’t get the decision they wanted after all the lobbying they did,” said Max von Thun, director of the Europe office of the Open Markets Institute, a proponent of stronger antitrust enforcement.

“They’re struggling to maintain that ‘good guy’ reputation,” von Thun said.

 

[Diondon]

Meta would be the worst place for Activision. They would lock everything up in a separate app on PC and require you to sign in with your Facebook account. MS is a much better option for gamers

Wouldn't affect consoles nor would the boogeyman Tencent

 

[daze23]

sounding similar to Epic vs Apple

 

[Gizmo_Duck]