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

Do you believe the deal will be approved?


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Robb

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doesn't apply, activision was completely rotten before ms bought them lol

all of their own accord
Very true, here you go:
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Clintizzle

Lord of Edge.
Can anyone explain to me like I'm 5 what benefit the CMA have brought to UK consumers with all this?

I forsee a barrage of complaints to Ubisoft because cloud streaming is dogshit and queue times are too long.

Everyone is probably going to download ABK games from GamePass anyway..
 

graywolf323

Member
To address these concerns, Microsoft has offered remedies to ensure that the terms of the sale of Activision’s rights to Ubisoft are enforceable by the CMA. The CMA has provisionally concluded that this additional protection should resolve those residual concerns.
I thought the whole reason the CMA was against behavioral remedies was because they didn’t want to be the ones having to enforce things? 🤨
 

ReBurn

Gold Member
Can anyone explain to me like I'm 5 what benefit the CMA have brought to UK consumers with all this?

I forsee a barrage of complaints to Ubisoft because cloud streaming is dogshit and queue times are too long.

Everyone is probably going to download ABK games from GamePass anyway..
Ubisoft won't be delivering cloud streaming. They'll just be handling the licensing required for ABK games to appear on all cloud services as a hedge against Microsoft hoarding ABK games for their own service. Microsoft will have to license ABK games for cloud just like everyone else.
 

//DEVIL//

Member



While the CMA has identified limited residual concerns with the new deal, Microsoft has put forward remedies which the CMA has provisionally concluded should address these issues.

The CMA is now consulting on the remedies before making a final decision

Watch them come up with a blockage of the deal for a different concerns.

They did the same thing first time. They were like we don't see the problem based on facts we got, just to announce few weeks later " oh the online thing is a problem. It's the cloud man "


Anyway the consultation ends by Oct 6. So not far now
 
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Dick Jones

Banned
Watch them come up with a blockage of the deal for a different concerns.

They did the same thing first time. They were like we don't see the problem based on facts we got, just to announce few weeks later " oh the online thing is a problem. It's the cloud man "
They highlighted cloud was still a concern when they said there were no console related issues.
 
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ManaByte

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At BlizzCon: "Link your Battle.net and Xbox accounts and access World of Warcraft with your Gamepass subscription!"

And before you say that'll never happen, Gamepass on PC links with Riot to give you EVERY character in League of Legends, Valorant, Wild Rift, etc.
 

Mephisto40

Member
At BlizzCon: "Link your Battle.net and Xbox accounts and access World of Warcraft with your Gamepass subscription!"

And before you say that'll never happen, Gamepass on PC links with Riot to give you EVERY character in League of Legends, Valorant, Wild Rift, etc.
Isn't world of warcraft already free to play without needing an extra barrier to entry?
 

ManaByte

Member
Imagine Obsidian making a new Quest for Glory

  • Blur
  • Caesar
  • Call of Duty
  • Candy Crush
  • Crash Bandicoot
  • Diablo
  • DJ Hero
  • Empire Earth
  • Gabriel Knight
  • Geometry Wars
  • Guitar Hero
  • Gun
  • Hearthstone
  • Heroes of the Storm
  • Hexen
  • Interstate ’76
  • King’s Quest
  • The Lost Vikings
  • Overwatch
  • Phantasmagoria
  • Pitfall
  • Police Quest
  • Prototype
  • Quest for Glory
  • Singularity
  • Skylanders
  • Solider of Fortune
  • Space Quest
  • Spyro the Dragon
  • StarCraft
  • Tenchu
  • TimeShift
  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
  • True Crime
  • World of Warcraft
 
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Ozriel

M$FT
Saddest thing about purchasing a company that pulls in 2 Billion a year for a purchase price of 69 Billion...

It wont change anything for Microsoft. Not the Market share, momentum, or mindshare because it's still on PS platforms.


We have internal emails and comms highlighting the deal is premised mainly on mobile and GP. And this is primed to change things for them with respect to those two things.

Sneering at a $2 billion net income is pretty wild.
 

Dick Jones

Banned
Imagine Obsidian making a new Quest for Glory

  • Blur
  • Caesar
  • Call of Duty
  • Candy Crush
  • Crash Bandicoot
  • Diablo
  • DJ Hero
  • Empire Earth
  • Gabriel Knight
  • Geometry Wars
  • Guitar Hero
  • Gun
  • Hearthstone
  • Heroes of the Storm
  • Hexen
  • Interstate ’76
  • King’s Quest
  • The Lost Vikings
  • Overwatch
  • Phantasmagoria
  • Pitfall
  • Police Quest
  • Prototype
  • Quest for Glory
  • Singularity
  • Skylanders
  • Solider of Fortune
  • Space Quest
  • Spyro the Dragon
  • StarCraft
  • Tenchu
  • TimeShift
  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
  • True Crime
  • World of Warcraft
I thought you were threadbanned as you stopped posting here for months. Did the mods lift it?
 

ManaByte

Member
It's free to play up to level 20

And what if this goes the other way, and Microsoft start insisting you have a game pass subscription to be able to play it?

Unless they raise the price of PC Gamepass, that'd be better since PC Gamepass is less than WoW monthly.

But even at $15 isn't Gamepass a better deal if you get WoW + all of the PC games + access to everything in Riot games?
 

graywolf323

Member
Imagine Obsidian making a new Quest for Glory

  • Blur
  • Caesar
  • Call of Duty
  • Candy Crush
  • Crash Bandicoot
  • Diablo
  • DJ Hero
  • Empire Earth
  • Gabriel Knight
  • Geometry Wars
  • Guitar Hero
  • Gun
  • Hearthstone
  • Heroes of the Storm
  • Hexen
  • Interstate ’76
  • King’s Quest
  • The Lost Vikings
  • Overwatch
  • Phantasmagoria
  • Pitfall
  • Police Quest
  • Prototype
  • Quest for Glory
  • Singularity
  • Skylanders
  • Solider of Fortune
  • Space Quest
  • Spyro the Dragon
  • StarCraft
  • Tenchu
  • TimeShift
  • Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater
  • True Crime
  • World of Warcraft
great list of IPs that will largely remain dead

unless you can demonstrate how Phil Spencer has in the past decade revived anything? I don’t get why people keep acting like Xbox is some bastion that will bring back the glory days when they don’t even do that for their previously owned IPs? 🤷🏼‍♂️
 

ManaByte

Member
unless you can demonstrate how Phil Spencer has in the past decade revived anything?

He's said he wants to bring back Hexen. Probably will be the first ABK IP they announce, maybe pulling Raven off CoD support and letting them do it.

"I was looking at the IP list, I mean, let's go! 'King's Quest,' 'Guitar Hero.' ... I should know this but I think they got 'HeXen.'"

phil-spencer.large.jpg
 
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Mephisto40

Member
Unless they raise the price of PC Gamepass, that'd be better since PC Gamepass is less than WoW monthly.

But even at $15 isn't Gamepass a better deal if you get WoW + all of the PC games + access to everything in Riot games?
It would be if gamepass stayed at $15 a month, which I highly doubt it will now they are going to have to start subsidizing WOW and call of duty

I think it's pretty nailed on COD is going to turn into some microtransaction laden free to play game now, which is probably why they arent that bothered about having COD as an excvlusive, they won't be making any money from game sales from it anyway
 

ManaByte

Member
I think it's pretty nailed on COD is going to turn into some microtransaction laden free to play game now, which is probably why they arent that bothered about having COD as an excvlusive, they won't be making any money from game sales from it anyway

COD already is under ABK. It's $100 a year (no one buys the base game LOL) + $30 battle passes every 3 months + $20 skin packs in the store.
 

graywolf323

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