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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Proelite said:
Yes, but Windows is a commodity, not the gaming platform. The platforms will be Steam, ABK store, Epic Games store and Windows store. Also ABK games move on to being in Windows to bring in Windows.
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Still does not matter. PC is not in the same competition space as game consoles are unto themselves, so there is no reason to bring them into the comparison for practicality's sake.

Microsoft does not see PC as a competitor platform to Xbox. They do, however, see PlayStation as a competitor platform. A sale of COD on PC (via any of the storefronts you mentioned) is still at the benefit of Microsoft to lock those users into Windows by fact that Windows is by far the dominant OS for gaming on the PC.
 
The fact that the FTC didn't ask what MS's intentions were should the injunction not be granted, with the CAT appeal outside the deadline, really shows me stunning incompetence or not any actual care about the deal. It was such an easy trap card to play.
 
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Playstation isn't losing the game though, why do they keep bringing that bullshit up lmaoooo
 
Not_A-Cop_Maybe said:
but the bulk of the PC games today have some form of DRM.

Regardless of the game being on game pass, you can go out and spend 70 bucks and buy the game and "own" it right?

Ite obvious to everyone that the GP route means you essentially rent the game, you arent buying the game. You get to play/try it out without owning the game. Should you feel like you want to buy the game, you can separately.
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Lol good luck with that when MS has market dominance. They are already removing the ability to buy licenses for their products and you need to suscribe to their cloud services. What happens when COD is only available thru GP? Oh, you need to sign up for their monthly subscription service.
 
BennyBlanco said:
Why would a lawyer in the private sector leave their job to go work for a public defender salary on incredibly boring cases?
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Well this is the exact problem that I outlined in one of my previous posts. The pay gap is too large so they will be unable to attract the people they need if the FTC is to become anything other than a joke.

This guy is astonishingly bad. Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
 
thicc_girls_are_teh_best said:
SonyToo™

Whattaboutism

#TheyBothDoIt



Yeah, it just shows how constrained regulatory bodies like the FTC are in this regard. I'm curious if the DOJ would've had a better shot if they were the ones who took to reviewing the acquisition process. I remember some early on saying the FTC had the advantage in getting this one but in hindsight maybe that wasn't true :/



Oh ok, my bad. And 100%; if this goes MS's way, we're going to see A LOT more consolidation of the 3P market.

Also Judge Cowley: "Maybe I'm biased <laughs>"

...uh, maybe not the best choice of words there, ma'am.
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Yeah, that's what I was saying. The old adage is "Perception is reality" and the reality is Microsoft will now perceive they can just trapse off and go for Sega, or whomever they want to next.

Sony will saunter off and I'll bet the fucking farm they retaliate with Square-Enix within a year's time. So on and so forth, it goes.
 
This a clown court for sure.

It is funny though, I took a squizz at the mentally deranged and mentally ill place.

And for a bunch of commie/socialist antifa democracy hating radical nazi punching liberals. They sure as hell are losing their shit and cheering on a multi billion dollar mega company to own and consolidate their favorite hobby/pastetime.

I don't know who is more of a hypocrit, MS execs or them 🤣
 
BoSkiiRed said:
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Playstation isn't losing the game though, why do they keep bringing that bullshit up lmaoooo
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It's not about PS losing access to COD. It's about (or should be about) Sony losing access to ABK as an independent 3P publisher/supplier of content. Sony values having free access to 3P publishers, same way Microsoft and Nintendo do. Microsoft buying one of the biggest 3P publishers on the market removes that backend & business access for MS's direct competitors.

MS gains the ability to control the supplier and the supply, and leverage their other divisions alongside that to then leverage assets under their ownership that can be used to pressure direct competitors to accept deals they otherwise would never have negotiated with. One of the emails showing MS leveraged their ownership of Zenimax (or considered leveraging it) shows that they wanted to remove Sony's ability to do ala carte selection of Zenimax games into PS+, in lieu of MS wanting them to accept the entire catalog of that content.

That directly affects the price Sony has to pay in order to get the specific content out of the catalog they want. It means Microsoft, basically, forces Sony to pay them more money for one specific thing they want. Very similar to what cable companies forced consumers to do for many years before streaming services ate away at their market, forcing them to change.
 
Ogbert said:
Much less workload and far fewer psychopaths to deal with.

I cannot begin to express to you how hideous private law firms can be.
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My wife works for one and it sounds pretty miserable. All they do is real estate. I bet the spicy stuff like criminal defense and divorce is a nightmare.
 
Lina Khan isn't going to be able to convince the US to reform the FTC when she's hiring lawyers who appear to have orders to be as incompetent as possible.
 
cebri.one said:
Lol good luck with that when MS has market dominance. They are already removing the ability to buy licenses for their products and you need to suscribe to their cloud services. What happens when COD is only available thru GP? Oh, you need to sign up for their monthly subscription service.
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They literally gave sony a guarantee for 10 years they wouldn't. Sony could have said yes- taken it and renegotiate it as they and everyone else does year or year(s) after year.
Microsoft like Sony is there to make money. They aint gonna keep out a min 800 million of the table year over year. Aint no way 2Million GP users year over year gonna help that- at least maybe not for 10 years.
What they will do is say after 10 years or whenever before Sony decides to renegotiate- is say either pay up or you dont have it. Exactly the way it is now when Sony or MS timegate a game or negotiate a game to release on the console.
 
The lawyer having to explain what to us is basic information to the judge concerning videogames is like me explaining why 60fps is better than 30fps to my 65yo mom.
 
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