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Microsoft / Activision deal prevented to protect innovation and choice in cloud gaming
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DJ12
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Good idea, kill off your second biggest and only other market because of hurt feelings.Just stop game pass in the UK, and sell it to the rest of the world when approvedproblem solved. In the UK you than can resurrect GameStop and let the buy physical
Brad will be calling you later to offer you an exec post at MS
bluecowboys
Banned
Xbox series sales in UK pales in comparison to this deal.
The 360 took like two years just to sell a couple million in the UK lol.
MS will probably make more money from PlayStation COD sales in UK alone.
DJ12
Member
Trust me on this, they definitely won't.
Activision might though if they can repair the damage they've done.
dotnotbot
Member
The fact that I want to sell you my kid doesn't mean I should be able to.
I've got no kids, don't call cops
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Dick Jones
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Do you not have kids because you already sold them?
phaedrus
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Dick Jones
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Timdoggggxxxx420 not taking this well
Bernoulli
M2 slut
jm89
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Must be sweating bullets over the upcoming EC decision.
Poltz
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Timdoggggxxxx420 not taking this well
Delicious.
Snake29
Banned
This is some desperation shit and is only getting worse for the Xbox platform. Focus on your own platform instead giving away all these meaningless deals to Cloudplatforms no one ever would use. I have a feeling these regulators don't give a fuck about all these giveaways atm.
P.S. Can i have some 10 year deal so i can run it on my Synology NAS?
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Dick Jones
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baphomet
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Good spot. Fixed
Instant CMA approval
drganon
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Good spot. Fixed
Rebootizing
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Zheph
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Timdoggggxxxx420 not taking this well
The tweets under Timdog's are another level braindead, no one did read the CMA's report in that camp
Dick Jones
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The loudest ones are the ones getting fucked in the end. Bobby will say anything for the free 3bn. His support for the merger will crumple in July when he finishes up those obligations.
This sideshow gave Bobby free reign at ABK, gave COD the public awareness of the most important game franchise of all time to non gamers, getting 3 billion and removed all the public heat looking for his removal at ABK for his gross mishandling of sexual assault cases in ABK.
The deal is dead. The only way this can get worse for Xbox is if they fight ABK on paying the 3 billion. Game over, ball burst...that disgusting pig Bobby won.
Dick Jones
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If they could read, do you think they would be following Timdog?
Zheph
Member
I believe both actors of the deal know it's over but one is having a tantrum and the other one is desperate to get 3bn, sad show
Rac3r
Member
Microsoft are really embarrassing themselves. I hope the EC comes to the same conclusion as the CMA so these people just stfu.
Dick Jones
Gold Member
One is getting a P45 and he fucking knows it. Forget about the current deal, the media and regulators has noticed the old Microsoft arrogance never left. The outbursts will haunt MS in future non gaming acquisitions.
Zheph
Member
Its insane tweets one after the other, reality is often disappointing...
FunkMiller
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Very much enjoying people thinking that the EU will be more likely to approve a monopolistic deal involving an American company than Britain.
bitbydeath
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CMA already outright said they won’t be influenced by the EU’s decision.Very much enjoying people thinking that the EU will be more likely to approve a monopolistic deal involving an American company than Britain.
Daneel Elijah
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And then said that they have been working with them just before revealing their decision. The advantage that Microsoft have in this case is that they know that what they have proposed was not enough to the CMA. They have the occasion to offer more to the EU. But i seems that they are doing just more "deals" with obscure cloud service providers for easy PR at the moment. The EU will maybe accept as their situation is not the same as the UK but they have a good chance of following the CMA too. I hope they do.
Rebootizing
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insane
IlGialloMondadori
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That's my impression as well. The panic is setting in, and there's probably a lot of finger pointing going on behind the scenes atm, as well as despair at loss of big payouts.
Dick Jones
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Thankfully his account was suspended for a week. Disgusting comment and to be fair not a common trait in most responses from those disappointed in the CMA decisioninsane
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StueyDuck
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The companies make billions for each other.
I don't think any relationships are being harmed here. When uncle Phil flops out his billion dollar check book and so does Jim, Kotick will literally turn into a cartoon character with dollar sign eyes and his tongue rolling out his mouth
Daneel Elijah
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This is a very optimistic take on the situation. If the merger end Microsoft will have to pay 3 billions to ABK. IF they do that, Phil will have to convince them to pay even more, for just a marketing deal. Not easy to do. Sony already has a deal, and will find themselves in a better bargaining position if Microsoft do not pay up the 3 billions( or 2.5?). They have been burned when the merger began and lost some of their capitalisation last year as a result. They may decide to try again to have the biggest FPS in house with the studios that they have just brought, like Bungie, Firesprite...
Depending of how the situation change Sony may decide not to talk with ABK unless Kotick is let go for example. Or demand a longer deal with strong anti gamepass clauses to protect themselves for the rest of the generation. Playing hard because they know that Microsoft ( if they refuse to pay the billions they will owe ABK) will never be able to match any offer that Sony can make. Or ABK may decide to wait until next year and see if the appeal to the CAT succeeds.
StueyDuck
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Don't get me wrong... there will be blood for certain.
But if next shareholder meeting kotick Says "we were offered 15 billion dollars by MS for gamepass but I turned them down" he's gonna be axed faster than you can say his name. Thats assuming kotick still leads the charge (I'm sure he will)
Basically my point was money talks... and if the price is right nothing will be lost.
And in today's modern era of connectivity and mega huge corporate structures I just don't see pettiness like we may have seen in the 80s or 90s when it came to big tech
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IlGialloMondadori
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The hole is just way deeper than I could have imagined.insane
Daneel Elijah
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Absolutely. But the problem is that to offer 15 billions Microsoft will have to pay up 18 billions. This is on top of the fact that the PS5 is more important to ABK in the first place. So Microsoft refused to do it before, and let Sony go away with it for so long. Regardless of what value you put on ABK marketing deals, or even a Gamepass one, Microsoft will have to pay their fee first. And then have to compete from a position of weakness against Sony. Who have all the reasons to go hard against ABK. And 1 year left to the present deal to see safely the situation go even more in their favor.
Great news. The deal was a threat to business models underpinning the viability of the sort of games I enjoy. Hopefully they fail in their appeals, and can focus their energies on actually making and releasing good games with the many many studios they already own (yet whose output is seemingly slow and lacking)
Mr.ODST
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Hate Colt he is the biggest grade A bellend, he thinks his content is actually good and the stuff he comes out with is absolute bullshit just like dreamcastguy
Banjo64
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Banjo64
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Agee with all of that but colteastwood is a million times worse than dreamcastguy. Colt just spouts non-stop lies and bullshit.
Dick Jones
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Captain Toad
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Microsoft making all these deals they never would have in the past to prove they've changed?
We're supposed to believe that once these deals expire and Microsoft owns Activision Blizzard that they're going to continue to go out of their way to keep their competitors "in the game"?
Drell
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Yes because they said they were the good guys.
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