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[Pelta88]

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.

 

[Thirty7ven]

W for Xbox fans that can now go online and say MS owns Call of Duty, and pretend they are going to spend their gaming time on AB trash.

Don’t forget candy crush, which now becomes the most played mobile game for Xbox fans.

Big day.

 

[Robb]

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

all of their own accord

Very true, here you go:

 

[DavidGzz]

Fwends!^

 

[BaneIsPain]

ok. congrats MS. Hope all studios acquired are enough.

 

[Kurotri]

ok. congrats MS. Hope all studios acquired are enough.

 

[Clintizzle]

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..

 

[HoofHearted]

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

 

[graywolf323]

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?

 

[HoofHearted]

Well, CMA still got what they've wanted. A new restructured deal in the end.

…

Did they really?

 

[HoofHearted]

Show us what you voted for first:

Right now only 99 people are undeserving of crow.

They never added my option … so ….

But I'm still gladly holding up my end of the bargain:

 

[Nankatsu]

Dark days ahead of us.

 

[ReBurn]

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.

 

[HoofHearted]

One interesting point
Microsoft is forbidden from acquiring Ubisoft or shares of Ubisoft for the next 10 years because of this modified deal.

So we can expect the Ubisoft acquisition notice to drop in 3651 3653 days …

 

[ReBurn]

So we can expect the Ubisoft acquisition notice to drop in 3651 days …

Add a couple of days for leap years

 

[Topher]

Time to serve some crow

Eat up then

 

[//DEVIL//]

New Black Ops day 1 on Gamepass? Oh boy.

Well I only said one year because of Sony marketing deal with Activision.

But this is just an educational guess

 

[Aguero9320]

Deal is dead.
(Just for old times sake)

 

[foamdino]

So was this behavourial concession or structural concession?

 

[Topher]

So was this behavourial concession or structural concession?

Structural

 

[//DEVIL//]

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

 

[Topher]

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 "

No, they didn't. Cloud was listed as a concern from the beginning.

 

[Dick Jones]

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.

 

[Drell]

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?

I guess they could only do so much with the FTC being powerless and EU being cucklords.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

The hilarious part of all of it is that (somehow) french company benefits from that The old era of french kings being also the kings of england is back

 

[Topher]

Been a wild ride.

Well this is the third time I will have congratulated everyone who really wanted this deal to go through, but congrats.

 

[Dick Jones]

The amount of people who love COD but need them to be on Gamepass to play is staggering.

 

[ManaByte]

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.

 

[splattered]

Whaaaaa finally. Man I grew so tired of this battle haha glad it's finally over whew

 

[Rien]

It's a sad day for the industry. I hope it will blow up in their faces.

 

[Mephisto40]

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]

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

 

[Ozriel]

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.

 

[ManaByte]

Isn't world of warcraft already free to play without needing an extra barrier to entry?

No it's still $15 a month. WoW and FFXIV are the only MAJOR MMOs still with a monthly fee.

 

[Dick Jones]

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?

 

[Mephisto40]

No it's still $15 a month. WoW and FFXIV are the only MAJOR MMOs still with a monthly fee.

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?

 

[ManaByte]

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]

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?

 

[Ozzie666]

The leaks worked, Microsoft came off so incapable and embarassing, even the CMA doesn't believe they can make this work. No matter the resources at their disposal. No excuse for the next generation.

 

[ManaByte]

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.'"

 

[Mephisto40]

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

 

[graywolf323]

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

cool, now show all the other shirts he’s worn on stage and how many of them actually get games made

 

[ManaByte]

cool, now show all the other shirts he’s worn on stage and how many of them actually get games made

 

[ManaByte]

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.

 

[HoofHearted]

Add a couple of days for leap years

fixed!

 

[Mephisto40]

It's $100 a year (no one buys the base game LOL)

What?

 

[Topher]

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.

He said they have Hexen. He said nothing about brining any old IPs back. Last I heard, he said ABK would operate exactly as they have and Kotick is still in charge.

 

[ManaByte]

Kotick is still in charge.

Kotick will take his golden parachute a few years after closure.

 

[lefty1117]

gamepass sub gives you +20 lives a month on candycrush?

 

[graywolf323]

okay that’s one, but he’s also worn a Jet Force Gemini shirt which resulted in nothing

Phil Spencer himself has told people to STOP reading into his shirts (actually after wearing the Hexen shirt you posted as some sorta proof of something)

Phil Spencer Wants You To Stop Reading Into His T-Shirt Choices

The CEO of Xbox Game Studios says he wasn't teasing anything by wearing a Hexen shirt.

www.gamespot.com