I was going on the thought process, that where the government could be making a mistake, and a judge blindly siding with them would make it their own mistake too, the Gamer's lawsuit gives corroboration that it is less likely that the FTC are making a mistake, than they are, giving the backdrop that when an independent herd mentality is against a direction of travel, they are correct 99.9% of the time.
When benjamin franklin shows up at your door step? Do you say no?
It's extremely unlikely that there was ever a scenario where ABK would be willing to extend the deal, knowing they are facing this much resistance from regulators.
Doubtful. The UK was the only major EU nation that was able to keep their own currency. Attempting re-entry to the EU now would most likely result in the UK being forced to adopt the Euro. The UK will not accept those terms, and then they would spend the next 20 years fighting about it. There is no scenario where the UK could just waltz back into the EU exactly as they were when they left, as non-participants in the Euro and the Schengen Area.
From day -1, the point of acquiring ABK was to deny content to Playstation. The people arguing otherwise in this thread were lunatics. Everyone and their mother knew that's what it was about. The fact that MS was never willing to offer perpetual access to ABK content to Sony, even when faced with the possibility of this deal failing to close, is very telling. MS would rather fail to acquire than allow Playstation to have CoD and other ABK content in perpetuity. That's been the whole point since day -154.
Part of the merger agreement forbids Activision from striking any significant deals (meaning things like COD or Diablo marketing deals, deals with Nvidia etc).
Activision could never justify not having one. They have a lot of relationships and opportunities that can be impacted during these years. MS probably has business reasons too that I’m too tired to try thinking of.
Everything has a deadline.
Judge granting what MS asked for and turning this hearing into a litigation of the deal and FTC overall case is a potential sign of which way she’s leaning.
My quote is pre-CMA block. Where everyone was sure that the console SLC being dropped meant an easy pass.
I would like to know if this a standard thing or if this is something not normally or ever done for a preliminary injunction hearing.
I love those tags, they are very accurate. This is my favourite.
Except it appears the judge is going along with MS on changing the scope and purpose of the hearing.
Same, except instead of Final Fantasy, it's Starfield. I'm trying to wait for July 18th. Either we will see a renegotiation before then or we will see the parties walk away around that date.I'm really behind this case now.
I'm spending way too much time day-dreaming about Final Fantasy XVI instead of catching up on the latest acquisition developments.
Every time I visit this thread, there's something new happening that I've no idea about
They don't call it retardera for nothing.
Lol. Because of 5 day hearing? Weird.
The thread has been gone to weird tangents in recent times so that contributes.
I don't think anyone has a god damn ides
I'm in the same zone right now. The thing has swung like a pendulum for almost one and a half years. It was fun, but now it has all come down to the renegotiation, as many of us expected.
Or she is just trying to be fair, which a judge should be. She analysed the request, and thought it was indeed necessary to give them some extra days. I don't think she's already leaning in a direction, although I at least hope that's not the case.
I kindly remind everyone that the main roadblock for the deal is not FTC but CMA. A few changes in USA court due diligence won’t change the fact that CAT will make a decision only after the deadline and there’s a 99% chance that even if MS will somehow prove something to the CAT, CMA will end up with the same decision but with corrected arguments. And it will take many months.
True. The CMA decision has made it mandatory for MS and ABK to renegotiation if they want to continue - which is already a difficult thing to do. I think FTC just filed the injunction to make it even more difficult to have that renegotiation.
If CMA is the only one blocking it, I'm pretty sure Microsoft will just circumvent it, in a way. How I don't know, that's for the lawyers, but they are not going to let a single market block it for the rest of the world.
Thing is, so does Microsoft. It won’t be the first and the last deal between two US entities that was effectively destroyed by CMA.
Depends on how important they find the UK market for whatever possible remedies there are to resolve this situation. There are solutions, none of them are beneficial to Microsoft, but maybe the upside of having ABK is more important.
It’s literally the second biggest market for Xbox and a significant market for Activision. Not even talking about the fact that Rare and Playground are UK-based internal teams with crucial franchises. At this point, it’s not worth it for both parties and it’s cheaper to go their separate way after the deadline.
