Nvidia don't get money from ingame purchases. Even steam doesn't unless you use Steamworks/steam wallet in the game.
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Microsoft / Activision Deal Approval Watch |OT| (MS/ABK close)
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feynoob
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Sorry to ruin your dream, but that would be impossible.
Live service games aren't easy task. For every successful 1 live service game, several die in the process.
The issue comes down to the games EULA mostly. Publishers have control. Personally I agree with you that permission shouldn't be required but then there are issues around DRM and contracts with other models. For example a publisher might not be happy with the idea that a user can buy the game once in Thailand and share it with his cousin in the USA via the cloud or they might just want a subscription provider to pay for exclusive rights to stream the game on their platform.
Mibu no ookami
Demoted Member® Pro™
Certainly no guarantees of anything, but it's certainly possible for Sony's investments in FPS to really pay off here.
Maybe you're too young to remember, but Sony wasn't really taken very seriously as a 1st party studio back in the day. They had Gran Turismo and the occasional mildly successful game like twisted metal or arc the lad, but they weren't really known for their first party production until the PS3 generation where they were able to combine the success of the PS2s God of war and uncharted followed by Last of Us.
They've tried to make MP games before with limited success Killzone, Resistance, e.t.c. but there was never really a major cross platform push from them until now.
I think it would be really ignorant to ignore their potential here. They're obviously putting a lot of money towards building studios with veteran leadership in this very area. That's not something they've done before. I think these games will be high quality with heavy marketing and brand tie in.
Topher
Identifies as young
Here's another one for the "florian mueller is an idiot" portfolio.
Advocating for MS to take a hardline tactic against the UK referencing this merger from two years ago.
Dumbass didn't bother to see what happened later......
"A month later the EU blocked Illumina's $8bn acquisition of Grail, a cancer test developer that was initially founded by Illumina but spun off in 2017.
Since then, the company has downgraded its profit forecasts and announced it is cutting 5 per cent of its 10,000 workers. And within the next few weeks Brussels is expected to hit it with a fine of up to 10 per cent of revenues or about $450mn, for closing the Grail deal despite opposition from regulators."
www.ft.com
www.nsmedicaldevices.com
Advocating for MS to take a hardline tactic against the UK referencing this merger from two years ago.
Dumbass didn't bother to see what happened later......
"A month later the EU blocked Illumina's $8bn acquisition of Grail, a cancer test developer that was initially founded by Illumina but spun off in 2017.
Since then, the company has downgraded its profit forecasts and announced it is cutting 5 per cent of its 10,000 workers. And within the next few weeks Brussels is expected to hit it with a fine of up to 10 per cent of revenues or about $450mn, for closing the Grail deal despite opposition from regulators."
Has Illumina taken the wrong path in its Grail quest?
DNA sequencing expert’s investors question acquisition of cancer testing group that has also angered EU regulators
www.ft.com
European Commission blocks Illumina’s $8bn acquisition of GRAIL
European Commission has stopped the acquisition of GRAIL by US life sciences firm Illumina under the EU Merger Regulation.
www.nsmedicaldevices.com
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feynoob
Banned
Potential is there. But shooter live service isn't an easy task.
With Sony making multiple live service games, that could be a disaster for them, if they have a lot of shooter live service games in their belt.
They will be cannibalizing each other.
mansoor1980
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mansoor1980
Member
this one is a genius
feynoob
Banned
Ok.....which one of you is on twitter rubbing it in?
"Fk UK workers who work for MS, because of CMA. I want my shiny toys, fyk your jobs. MS get out of UK".
That is what I am getting from that post.
feynoob
Banned
jm89
Member
Ok.....which one of you is on twitter rubbing it in?
Ugh a news report from GB news aswell.
No surprise. I don't think any other news channels(or at least the major ones) in the UK would be parroting brad smiths lines and agreeing with it.
Bottom of the barrel news channel.
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Gone
Banned
Serious question
Couldn't the CMA tell Microsoft beforehand that if they need the deal to go through they'll have to do
A-
B-
C-
About the cloud market and see if Microsoft agree/do those said things, Wouldn't that be better for everyone involved instead of this cat and mouse game?
instead, we got Microsoft offering what they think is enough but it's actually not for the CMA and we ended up with the deal getting blocked.
Couldn't the CMA tell Microsoft beforehand that if they need the deal to go through they'll have to do
A-
B-
C-
About the cloud market and see if Microsoft agree/do those said things, Wouldn't that be better for everyone involved instead of this cat and mouse game?
instead, we got Microsoft offering what they think is enough but it's actually not for the CMA and we ended up with the deal getting blocked.
mansoor1980
Member
feynoob
Banned
https://www.allenovery.com/en-gb/gl...s/uk-revamps-competition-and-consumer-regimes
4. Tougher sanctions for non-compliance with investigations and remedies
The Bill dramatically increases the upper limits for penalties that apply across the mergers, competition and markets regimes, bringing the UK in line with the sanctioning powers of the EU and other international equivalents:- failure to comply with investigations: 1% annual turnover (plus 5% daily penalties) on companies and GBP30,000 (plus GBP15,000 daily penalty) on individuals – this is currently capped at GBP30,000 (plus GBP15,000 daily penalty) for companies
- failure to comply with remedies, including interim measures, commitments and orders: 5% annual turnover (plus 5% daily penalties) on companies and GBP30,000 (plus GBP15,000 daily penalty) on individuals
Tomeru
Member
xHunter
Member
Ok.....which one of you is on twitter rubbing it in?
This guy will be having a hard time once he realizes that the 70 billion is going straight into AI when the deal is officially over.
Topher
Identifies as young
The discussion of remedies was part of phase 2. What CMA proposed didn't work for MS as it would require divestiture.
Gone
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That was about the console market and the CMA said it doesn't represent a future harm.
Then they finished their process by blocking the deal citing Cloud Gaming concerns.
Edmund
is waiting for Starfield 7
Guys. Why is Florian Mueller's head so big? I swear I did not photoshop the picture. I got it from here. Someone tell me what's inside his head and why'd it get so big? I'm supposed to go to bed now but I can't after seeing this. I'm scared. Does thinking of Xbox and Microsoft all day cause your head to swell like that?
www.theverge.com
Oracle tells court patent blogger Florian Mueller is a ‘consultant,’ Google says it doesn’t pay to influence media
Oracle has admitted to the court that it retains the frequently-cited Florian Mueller of the popular FOSS Patents blog as a consultant. The official disclosure comes a week after the judge in Oracle’s lawsuit against Google took the extraordinary step of ordering both parties to reveal any paid...
www.theverge.com
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Topher
Identifies as young
Incorrect. The provisional findings included the console market and cloud gaming concurrently. The console market aspect was thrown out but cloud gaming was not.
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jm89
Member
They still asked for divestiture for the cloud gaming concerns.
feynoob
Banned
Dude is making $$$ the bread if that is the case.Guys. Why is Florian Mueller's head so big? I swear I did not photoshop the picture. I got it from here. Someone tell me what's inside his head and why'd it get so big? I'm supposed to go to bed now but I can't after seeing this. I'm scared. Does thinking of Xbox and Microsoft all day cause your head to swell like that?
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I don't blame him. Get that bread while it's fresh.
Topher
Identifies as young
Guys. Why is Florian Mueller's head so big? I swear I did not photoshop the picture. I got it from here. Someone tell me what's inside his head and why'd it get so big? I'm supposed to go to bed now but I can't after seeing this. I'm scared. Does thinking of Xbox and Microsoft all day cause your head to swell like that?
Oracle tells court patent blogger Florian Mueller is a ‘consultant,’ Google says it doesn’t pay to influence media
Oracle has admitted to the court that it retains the frequently-cited Florian Mueller of the popular FOSS Patents blog as a consultant. The official disclosure comes a week after the judge in Oracle’s lawsuit against Google took the extraordinary step of ordering both parties to reveal any paid...
Ah....shill confirmed.
But bro.....resize that image. You've got that dude taking up every inch of my monitor.
Gone
Banned
Well, they should've found another solution then.
bender
What time is it?
Guys. Why is Florian Mueller's head so big? I swear I did not photoshop the picture. I got it from here. Someone tell me what's inside his head and why'd it get so big? I'm supposed to go to bed now but I can't after seeing this. I'm scared. Does thinking of Xbox and Microsoft all day cause your head to swell like that?
Oracle tells court patent blogger Florian Mueller is a ‘consultant,’ Google says it doesn’t pay to influence media
Oracle has admitted to the court that it retains the frequently-cited Florian Mueller of the popular FOSS Patents blog as a consultant. The official disclosure comes a week after the judge in Oracle’s lawsuit against Google took the extraordinary step of ordering both parties to reveal any paid...
Mr. Burns brain and nerve tonic strikes again.
Topher
Identifies as young
They did
Varteras
Member
This is where I feel what Sony is doing now is different from what they tried during PS3. This feels less like throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks. This feels like much more careful consideration and a lot more money is being spent to achieve their multiplayer and live service ambitions.
Of course, they could still totally fall flat on their face, but this just feels like they're super serious about making this work somehow.
Nydius
Member
I'm still catching up on the last ten pages but this is what has me laughing most right now. During the Diablo 4 beta, I had a bunch of Xbox only friends who were saying things like, "I'm not gonna buy this at launch because as soon as the Activision deal closes it'll be on Game Pass."
Guess they're either never going to play Diablo 4 or they'll have to suck it up and actually spend money on a game. *gasp*
Varteras
Member
PaintTinJr
Gold Member
it isn't hearsay when it is part of an essential document for the SEC filing,
It comes from a recognized non-partisan civil service function of a foreign market that both merging parties already do business in and submit to the authority of the foreign government over their globalized business in that country.
To argue that the document isn't automatically credible in a US court is inconsistent with their own SEC filing, so they'd need to prove the accepted analysis and decision in the document were incorrect, and challenge them with alternative analysis
PaintTinJr
Gold Member
Those twitter types should know that is never going to happen, or work
After they stupidly embroiled the PM's spokesperson in this nonsense they are totally on the government's radar, and If they try to go around the CMA and CAT our collective government will likely table emergency legislation to stop such blatant disrespect for the rule of law in the UK,
Possibly even further measures would be taken, like forcing them to divest their interests in UK cloud services or internet search/advertising to discourage any others from such attempts in future,
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demigod
Member
What a lunatic, thank god we don't have users like that on GAF.
Varteras
Member
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Cre8
You want a shot at the champ? [NG gif winner July 23]
M1987
Member
It's like this on the Xbox reddit sub,it's fucking embarrassing
bitbydeath
Member
Microsoft didn't take them seriously, it's MS's fault at the end of the day.
Thirty7ven
Banned
Really? Doesn't seem hard at all. As if determining the size of companies in any given market is some Herculean effort.
Topher
Identifies as young
That's your opinion and that's fine, but the "solution" they were trying to reach was one that didn't result in SLC as a result of this merger. None of the remedies did that and so prohibiting the merger was the solution. That's what they are supposed to do.
And I'm glad. Massive corporations becoming more massive isn't good for anyone. That's my opinion
ArcaneNLSC
Member
jm89
Member
I mean you wrote "CMA tell Microsoft beforehand that if they need the deal to go through they'll have to do"
That's exactly what they did.
Varteras
Member
Aaron in a bath
ArcaneNLSC
Member
where his shilling job will be replaced by AI twitter xbots
reinking
Gold Member
El Pistolero
Banned
Guys. Why is Florian Mueller's head so big? I swear I did not photoshop the picture. I got it from here. Someone tell me what's inside his head and why'd it get so big? I'm supposed to go to bed now but I can't after seeing this. I'm scared. Does thinking of Xbox and Microsoft all day cause your head to swell like that?
Oracle tells court patent blogger Florian Mueller is a ‘consultant,’ Google says it doesn’t pay to influence media
Oracle has admitted to the court that it retains the frequently-cited Florian Mueller of the popular FOSS Patents blog as a consultant. The official disclosure comes a week after the judge in Oracle’s lawsuit against Google took the extraordinary step of ordering both parties to reveal any paid...
Filled with tons of stupid air...
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Bernoulli
M2 slut
Here's another one for the "florian mueller is an idiot" portfolio.
Advocating for MS to take a hardline tactic against the UK referencing this merger from two years ago.
Dumbass didn't bother to see what happened later......
"A month later the EU blocked Illumina's $8bn acquisition of Grail, a cancer test developer that was initially founded by Illumina but spun off in 2017.
Since then, the company has downgraded its profit forecasts and announced it is cutting 5 per cent of its 10,000 workers. And within the next few weeks Brussels is expected to hit it with a fine of up to 10 per cent of revenues or about $450mn, for closing the Grail deal despite opposition from regulators."
Has Illumina taken the wrong path in its Grail quest?
DNA sequencing expert’s investors question acquisition of cancer testing group that has also angered EU regulators
European Commission blocks Illumina’s $8bn acquisition of GRAIL
European Commission has stopped the acquisition of GRAIL by US life sciences firm Illumina under the EU Merger Regulation.
how they are getting so much likes? it seems that anything that says the deal will go through gets massive likes
can it be bots?
reinking
Gold Member
...and Microsoft chose to go on a PR tour signing streaming services instead of doing what the CMA told them needed to be done. MS was being arrogant and thought they could bully the CMA into accepting behavioral remedies even though the CMA had told the point blank they were not going to be acceptable. I would say MS wasn't being arrogant and was just pushing through but they really were blindsided when it was blocked. They really thought their tactics were going to work.
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Iced Arcade
Member
What's the max amount of pages a thread can go? Even though she's dead, can still see this dragged out for a long time.
Decision made for a few days off
Decision made for a few days off
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