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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mckmas8808 said:
People don't seem to understand that we humans have been "streaming" music, tv shows, and movies for decades. It's called radio and terrestrial TV. And then cable TV. The only thing that's changed is the delivery method (the internet).

But practically speaking the end user is still getting the same result. That's not the same for gaming like you're saying.
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Eh not really.

The main difference is those formats are linear-pre chosen content.

What changed was the ability to choose what you want to watch or listen to and when.

Which is why you'll see "linear TV" used.

What this has to do with gaming though? Lol
 
havoc00 said:
Dude after covid, even like 2 years seems like an eternity who the F knows what could happen in 10
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Hellblade devs will have travelled to Iceland 7 times to get inspiration from the food, music, dances, traditional clothes, language, sex positions, slang and pollution to make Hellblade 2 and announce that the next vidoc is releasing soon!
 
feynoob said:
I did that for CMA result, got the opposite result.
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Topher said:
I doubt that will satisfy CMA concerns, but how is it "terrific for CMA"? And how is any of this like Spiderman?
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Spiderman has 2 rights. Movie rights and the rest.
Sony owns the movie rights, while marvel owns rights like comics, games and others.

For CMA, MS won't have any say for cloud decision. They will have to buy the permission to put those games on their devices, since they don't own streaming rights. This allows other companies to have the same chance as MS.

Who over owns those rights will partner with any company or sell those service to any company they desire.
 
Starfield and this quisition to me really feels like a rebirth of Xbox. The point where Mattrick's Kinect blunders and their lingering effects would finally be a thing of the past. We'll finally have an Xbox reminiscent of the first half of the 360 generation without the RROD not just in promise (like for 2018-2023) but in actual and tangible content and consistent releases.

Spencer and his team truly achieved an amazing transformation.

Do you believe this to be true?
 
feynoob said:
Spiderman has 2 rights. Movie rights and the rest.
Sony owns the movie rights, while marvel owns rights like comics, games and others.

For CMA, MS won't have any say for cloud decision. They will have to buy the permission to put those games on their devices, since they don't own streaming rights. This allows other companies to have the same chance as MS.

Who over owns those rights will partner with any company or sell those service to any company they desire.
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So basically MS just has to pay a fee to some other company and continue operating as they would have otherwise? No way the CMA goes for that. Not unless they are just looking for any way to back down from all this due to political pressure.

Basil King said:
That deal is definitely not as good as it was probably offered 6 months ago.
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It was a 10 year deal before. No different.
 
Topher said:
So basically MS just has to pay a fee to some other company and continue operating as they would have otherwise? No way the CMA goes for that. Not unless they are just looking for any way to back down from all this due to political pressure.
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CMA issue is cloud only. If you take that away from MS, there won't be any issue.

CMA is essentially denying MS the ability to own Activision blizzard cloud rights with this move.
 
feynoob said:
CMA issue is cloud only. If you take that away from MS, there won't be any issue.

CMA is essentially denying MS the ability to own Activision blizzard cloud rights with this move.
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Sounds more like a behavioral remedy to me which the CMA frowns on. We will see.
 
Topher said:
Sounds more like a behavioral remedy to me which the CMA frowns on. We will see.
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I mean CMA defined their block as a cloud concern.
If it was Console concern, the only solution would have been COD divestment.
But with cloud, you have other options. Divesting cloud right is one of them.
 
adamsapple said:
Farming off the cloud service (in UK) to a third party is structural, not behavioral, in my eyes.
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That's selling rights, not divesting a part of the company. But again, we will see.

feynoob said:
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Jez is blind then. And he has no business calling anyone a "plastic warrior". The lack of introspection by that guy is unreal.
 
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I wonder if at the beginning of all this, Jim could've pushed for Sony to have even more deals beyond CoD if it meant Sony not challenging the deal early on.

What a full circle ride this has become.
 
It doesn't make any sense divesting XCloud in the UK. You divest then what? Another big tech buys it? An irrelevant British company buys it just to go bankrupt a few years later? The only thing that makes sense is an open license agreement as in the EU.
 
TheDreadLord said:
It doesn't make any sense divesting XCloud in the UK. You divest then what? Another big tech buys it? An irrelevant British company buys it just to go bankrupt a few years later? The only thing that makes sense is an open license agreement as in the EU.
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CMA is against that.
 
splattered said:
Damn so they only got a 10 year deal after all...? Surprised they signed anything then. Has to be more to the contract then that we haven't seen yet?
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Why not sign it? It appears they got at least the same 10-year deal they were offered before letting things play out through the FTC. If that is the case, they lost nothing by fighting the acquisition.
 
Heisenberg007 said:
If this PS deal includes stuff about PS Plus, it will help MS with the CMA. Otherwise, since the CMA had dropped the console SLC, theoretically they can still block the acquisition because of Cloud (although the chances seem very low).

And I don't think MS has satisfied the CMA yet. The CMA will review their new offer, and that's why they took the 6 weeks period. If MS had satisfied the CMA, the CMA would have announced their revised decision before July 18, as there is (albeit a small) risk that after July 18, ABK could walk away.

To eliminate that risk, MS would have insisted the CMA to announce their decision before July 18. I think the CMA has yet to review it but will likely accept it.
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This remains as the most important period to this acquisition.

Sony finalizing a contract simply means they acknowledge Activision-Blizzard will be acquired… which is exactly what I voted for.

Using the extra 6-week probe could suggest there may be more concessions made outside of the Cloud (especially after the Zenimax proceedings).
 
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