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

[Gizmo_Duck]

They will have to defend when the appeal goes live in front of CAT.

No CAT decides if its worth reviewing it and CMA then have to defend their stance afterward, but they still get the ultimate decision in the end

almost nothing gets overturned through CAT.

If they actually carry on with this for another year and half I’ll gladly take the L but i don’t see it happening. I think this will be dropped before summer is over

The UK government is giving the CMA even more power after this fact also

UK regulator holding up Microsoft's Activision deal set to get new powers to rein in Big Tech

A new unit within the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority will be given powers to fine Big Tech firms up to 10% of global revenues for breaches.

www.cnbc.com

 

[MrLogic]

Phil speaks

Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

www.bloomberg.com

All this because they are not creative enough to make games inhouse


to busy trying to use gaming to take control of markets outside of PC operating system's.


note to M$ this is not some random guy making ms dos and bill gates stealing it and then cutting a deal with IBM


gaming you actually have to be creative

 

[Koba St]

Should give them enough time to make their own COD competitor

Damn, CMA just gave Microsoft their own 10year deal

Just when you thought this L couldn’t get any worse

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

Yeah, that reason is called "good exclusive games".

Y'all Mid Pass stans wouldn't understand.

Also, that take about GoW not having too much of an impact is wild lmao.

If even 10% of the PS playerbase got it, that means these people wouldn't get an Xbox over a PS because it doesn't have GoW.

It's telling that the Xbox was at its most competitive when it actually had games to draw people to its ecosystem.

Not to mention the optics are really bad when every time an exclusive comes out, Xbots are stuck on loop.

Demon's Souls came out, Xbots: "We good, we eating off Game Pass. "
Returnal: "We good, we eating off Game Pass... "
GoW: "We... We still got Game Piss, that backlog is crazy breh, I'm telling you. "

Microsoft's strategy just ain't it and they didn't learn jack from killing Rare.

XB360 was the worst thing that happened to them.

They thought it was all about that superior online and network. Really it was about Halo and call of duty being the best GAMES to utilize the network. The fact it was out a year early so they had the first GAMES. and the price point made it easier to buy more GAMES.

But all they saw was the network. Every console since has gotten more away from GAMING and more into a network. Download games nobody wants to play, on a network tho. Play games nobody wants on pc and Xbox network for one price. Put out 18 console versions depending on how much networking you want to do vs gaming


They got away from the games.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Activision’s UK division faces HMRC investigation over transfer pricing arrangements

Subsidiary's tax payments predate the recent CMA ruling blocking proposed mega-merger

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[Koba St]

If Bobby Kotick thinks this deal is great for gamers, why doesn’t he ignore the ruling and still put out Activision games like COD etc, on Gamepass. There’s nothing CMA can do about. Go on Bobby

 

[levitate]

Could have spent that 3 billion and bought Bungie.

It’s ours now.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Could have spent that 3 billion and bought Bungie.

It’s ours now.

Wild, they gotta pay a whole Bungie to Activision

 

[King Sun]

Could have spent that 3 billion and bought Bungie.

It’s ours now.

This is the wild part and this is coming from someone that thought Halo was overhyped since the first xbox but I recognize why people liked it.

 

[Koba St]

Activision’s UK division faces HMRC investigation over transfer pricing arrangements

Subsidiary's tax payments predate the recent CMA ruling blocking proposed mega-merger

www.telegraph.co.uk

When it rains it pours

They really thought they could threaten the British

 

[AStrangeName]

The writings on the wall for them to be more like Sega.

Aye, don't do Sega like that. At least they kept fighting even if it was in-house or outside and try to innovate till they had to leave the console business, Microsoft is barely doing the bare minimum.

 

[Jaguar93]

Mannnn…I been listening to some podcasts, and reading some tweets. And the amount of armchair business men, and lawyers I hear/see is crazy. You would think these folks actually work for Microsoft. Like bruhs are losing sleep, raising their blood pressure, and calling for violence over this deal. The biggest plot twist is that majority. Of the people that’s mad. Doesn’t even play games just look at their achievements lol. They just participates in online console wars.

 

[Black Mamba]

Activision’s UK division faces HMRC investigation over transfer pricing arrangements

Subsidiary's tax payments predate the recent CMA ruling blocking proposed mega-merger

www.telegraph.co.uk

When it rains it pours

They really thought they could threaten the British

They fukked up
UK bout to send the mandem at theae p*ssyoles
WASTEMANS M$ and Activision

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

deal. The biggest plot twist is that majority. Of the people that’s mad. Doesn’t even play games just look at their achievements lol. They just participates in online console wars.

This is the funniest part. What are they really losing as gamers?

They are still getting Call of Duty, World of War Craft, Diablo IV, Crash Bandicoot fall guys, etc.

It doesn’t really mean anything beyond console wars and they are sitting on youtube and twitter telling Microsoft to shut down the UK’s economy over it


This is the result of Microsoft starving their fanbase for so long. The biggest win Microsoft ever got was when they announced this acquisition and for the past year and a half thats all the xbox fanbase has been obsessed with. Not only did they not get any notable games or announcements lat year they didn’t get their big W that was promised to them.

 

[Black Mamba]

Threaten a government xbots