EA is a license nightmare.
They will never do this lol
I'm asking not implying, but why would there be a restriction on weekend closings when the shareholders already approved the sale of the entire company on a set price per share?
MS isn't stupid and will find any loophole that allows them to close the deal.
they have very important brands for the japanese market that sony doesn't have, especially ff and dq, a very successful mmo like ff14 and a good mobile division. it would still be a good catalog to continue to attract in japan. obviously it's nothing like activision, t2 or ea. it would be more like zenimax
True true, plus there was a point made earlier about Sony getting all the important Square Enix games anyways exclusive. As I'm writing this I'm thinking about what would make strategic sense to Sony. Where are they lacking. PC prescence and mobile. Square Enix does make a lot of mobile games, but I don't know how well that side of the business does. Admittedly, I don't know where all this money is going in mobile as a whole. I imagine...gachas and cod mobile, pubg mobile and candy crush. Obviously there are others but I just can't think of them off the top of my head.
I dunno what's going on either honestly and guess I am just being stupid
Secret sauce, MS always finds it!
Nope, they aren't.
You are not.
To be honest - if MS intends to close over CMA objections regardless what happens on Monday, then it would be stupid to wait until Monday to close if the 9th takes no action today. Then the closing would be moot by the time Monday rolls around and the 9th is back to work. If the 9th actually denied the stay, then they could wait without any real risk.
Because MS will keep shopping and they are obvious next targets. EA is their next target.
Don't know about all that. But if this deal closes the CMA better monitor their Wikipedia page.
It kind is.
Also lets be very honest.... you don't think the Market leader in the industry will not face even heavier scrutiny around making a big move like this? This would be just as if not more daunting for Sony given their position in the market and how they have consistently used partial forecloser tactics in a good portion of their marketing deals. They would be under a big microscope.
The way some ppl talk, you would think you needed the entire amount to buy a house or a car.
@Ginzeen working overtime spamming icon-era.com as well. How much is MS paying you?
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
By the way @KingOfTheDead You would be somewhere around "Peak of Mount Stupid". Most people here are around the Valley of Despair. Nope, i was on the money. They were going to finish it on the 18th. Deadline day. So they were going to give them the nod to close. But they just said today...icon-era.com
If that was the case, MS wouldn't have fought that tro.
Recent chatter behind the scenes suggests otherwise.
Mostly cash you mean?
If MS buys Activision, market position would be meaningless.
I don't think MS intends to either. My point was limited to if they did intend it.
MS breaks the law all the time. This isn't new to them.
Not with the CMA, they've got more chance of finding another 8GBs of RAM and a second GPU in the Series power supplies than it being approved here, prior to the 4-6 week timeline the CMA tweeted today of another probe.
This is like waiting for your final test grades.
I don't think this is accurate at all. I think it still very much would matter in the eyes of some regulators especially if the move is to buy something on the level of EA or Take 2....unless Sony is willing to make all the same ovetures MS has had to. 10 yr deals to all, etc...
I wouldn't discount that.
Gaf has crazy accountants.
Regulators said COD won't bring any console harm.
Why not? Leopards don't change their spots.
And what's gonna happen? Police gonna arrest Microsoft?
Monday will clear up everything.
Sony buying a big company would get some scrutiny as well.
And what's gonna happen? Police gonna arrest Microsoft?
