Microsoft / Activision Deal Approval Watch |OT| (MS/ABK close)

Do you believe the deal will be approved?

  • Yes, will be approved without changes.

    Votes: 221 24.9%

  • Yes, will be approved but with structural changes to ABK.

    Votes: 102 11.5%

  • Yes, will be approved but only with behavioral concessions.

    Votes: 262 29.6%

  • No, will not be approved.

    Votes: 301 34.0%
  • Total voters
    886
  • Poll closed .
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If you don't want to be asked to explain a number, don't say a number.

You guys are acting like someone forced the FTC lawyer to throw the 20% number out there during closing arguments. She's quite literally the audience for those statements, so if she wants clarity and you legit can't answer, that's on you.

Doesn't mean she won't grant the injunction, doesn't mean she will.
 
IntentionalPun said:
If you don't want to be asked to explain a number, don't say a number.

You guys are acting like someone forced the FTC lawyer to throw the 20% number out there during closing arguments. She's quite literally the audience for those statements, so if she wants clarity and you legit can't answer, that's on you.

Doesn't mean she won't grant the injunction, doesn't mean she will.
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Moridianae said:
They'll not grant the injunction. Microsoft will close this deal and then pursue other targets, meanwhile, those who said Microsoft wouldn't do that(buy everyone out to the top) will be *surprised Pikachu face*
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If the deal passes there's nothing stopping them getting more.... Sega has more or less hinted at Microsoft acquiring them in the future.
 
Jigsaah said:
Don't you see this as dangerous though?

It may very well happen. However, I think a healthy to and fro is the best situation for us, the customers. If Microsoft is allowed to do this, unchecked, nothing good will come from it.

They need to slow down, take this as a gut check and be more careful in the future.
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Again--I don't exactly know how my post got misconstrued. I do not WANT this because I fear the precedent it makes.

If you can purchase, *outright* an entire publisher and all their respective IPs(TWICE now if we count Bethesda) and nothing happens here(and this magnitudes larger than any others), they'll just move on to the next because that's what they perceive they can do without consequences.

Sony isn't entirely innocent here, because I feel their next leap will be a retaliation. It starts an acquisition war where NO ONE wins as gamers.
 
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cebri.one said:
I own a copy of the software. Games with no DRM in PC I can install them anywhere, games on GPPC.. you cannot even mod them.
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but the bulk of the PC games today have some form of DRM.

Regardless of the game being on game pass, you can go out and spend 70 bucks and buy the game and "own" it right?

Ite obvious to everyone that the GP route means you essentially rent the game, you arent buying the game. You get to play/try it out without owning the game. Should you feel like you want to buy the game, you can separately.
 
What the fuck am I listening to, this guy is a spineless cuck.

Where are your balls? Show her your fucking balls.

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Honestly the FTC need to make it a requirement that someone needs to have worked at least a decade in the private sector before coming to work for them.
 
Larvana said:
Everyone who isn't blind know Sony would do the same if they had the money, calm down boy.
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GHG said:
Ultimately this is a "home game" for Microsoft. This kind of situation/environment suits the way they operate down to the ground.

If the FTC want to see what needs to be done in order for them to have the power they want to have then they only need to look overseas (for example Microsoft more than met their match in dealing with the CMA - not least because the individuals there are indeed well paid so they can attract the necessary subject matter experts to run cases). But that would require a wholesale change in the process they have to adhere to and that isn't happening any time soon when the large companies in the US pretty much call the shots across the board.
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Yeah, it just shows how constrained regulatory bodies like the FTC are in this regard. I'm curious if the DOJ would've had a better shot if they were the ones who took to reviewing the acquisition process. I remember some early on saying the FTC had the advantage in getting this one but in hindsight maybe that wasn't true :/

Moridianae said:
I don't want it. Sorry if my post conveyed that and all my posts have been against this.

This isn't good for gaming if it passes and it sets a bad sequence in motion, if I'm honest.
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Oh ok, my bad. And 100%; if this goes MS's way, we're going to see A LOT more consolidation of the 3P market.

Also Judge Cowley: "Maybe I'm biased <laughs>"

...uh, maybe not the best choice of words there, ma'am.
 
DeaDPo0L84 said:
I see we're back to people making incredibly embarrassing post. I don't know how some of you survive day to day with the brain power of a 5yo.
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No need to be so salty, maybe utilize that genius brain power of yours to imagine an alternate universe and live in that one instead if you don't like reality.
 
Moridianae said:
Again--I don't exactly know how my post got misconstrued. I do not WANT this because I fear the precedent it makes.

If you can purchase, *outright* an entire publisher and all their respective IPs and nothing happens here(and this magnitudes larger than any others), they'll just move on to the next because that's what they perceive they can do without consequences.

Sony isn't entirely innocent here, because I feel their next leap will be a retaliation. It starts an acquisition war where NO ONE wins as gamers.
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Kilau said:
This is what happens when your legal team is a bunch of "true believers" not the top lawyers in the world.
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It's unfortunate that we either massively increase the funding for something like the FTC or we are going to have an FTC that gets trounced by much higher paid lawyers.
 
GHG said:
What the fuck am I listening to, this guy is a spineless cuck.

Where are your balls? Show her your fucking balls.

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Honestly the FTC need to make it a requirement that someone needs to have worked at least a decade in the private sector before coming to work for them.
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Why would a lawyer in the private sector leave their job to go work for a public defender salary on incredibly boring cases?
 
Not_A-Cop_Maybe said:
what if i play the game on apple or linux?
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The 2% of PC gamers who use those platforms to play games?

The whole PC argument doesn't even make sense because PC was not determined as a competing product in the same market as gaming consoles. Practicality means nothing here; PCs are not purpose-built for gaming the way game consoles are.

...though her insight on PC IS something I think Sony need to think about in terms of how they handle PC ports going forward 😉😁
 
thicc_girls_are_teh_best said:
Does this judge not understand that MICROSOFT OWNS THE OPERATING SYSTEM THOSE PC GAMERS ARE ON!?
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Yes, but Windows is a commodity, not the gaming platform. The platforms will be Steam, ABK store, Epic Games store and Windows store. Also ABK games move on to being in Windows to bring on Windows, doesn't change the status quo.
 
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