MasterCornholio
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You can still buy the games. Plus this isn't the UK government's doing.
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Microsoft / Activision deal prevented to protect innovation and choice in cloud gaming
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You can still buy the games. Plus this isn't the UK government's doing.
MarkMe2525
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It's an excerpt from a much longer document. There is no context, so we are not sure in what situation this particular cloud remedy would come into play.
GHG
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Is this even English for fucks sake?
MasterCornholio
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You'll definitely see some from Microsoft as a result of this. It could be a very good thing for the brand. We have to wait and see what happens.
DeepEnigma
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GHG
Member
Dude, our phones and web browsers have autocorrect, including for punctuation. At this point it has to be intentional.
well it was bull shit reason for it to get trashed cloud gaming is a fad now.
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DeepEnigma
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MS has only themselves to blame for the Power of the Cloud™ and pushing it in the forefront of reaching over 150m gamers via xCloud with this deal.
Those pesky learning dictionaries.
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MasterCornholio
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Banjo64
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MS has only themselves to blame for the Power of the Cloud™ and pushing it in the forefront of reaching over 150m gamers via xCloud with this deal.
The lack of foresight has been hilarious.
MasterCornholio
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NickFire
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She might want to try scrubbing that one from the internets. Tirades against the UK won't matter much once the circus ends. Tirades against the company that makes her company lots of money might matter a great deal.
Dick Jones
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Americans need to realise that what works in the US does not automatically work elsewhere. Insulting and threatening a country will never bode well when you want something from them. The shit meme culture does not work with public sectors in Europe.
James Sawyer Ford
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Skifi28
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I thought in the end it wasn't about COD and Sony but the cloud? She might want to take another look.
Setsuna Mudou
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That bitch is supposed to be a lawyer for Activision?
Was she learning her trade from Giulliani by any chance? Keeping an eye for a reaction press conference from the 4 seasons landscape entrance
mejin
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devilNprada
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Of course she's pissed, she stood to make A SHIT TON of money on this deal..
We would all throw a shit fit in her shoes...
Imagine missing the lottery by 1 number....
Dick Jones
Gold Member
Her behaviour never changed. She was the same before the CMA decision. It's abrasive and unhelpful to her cause.
NickFire
Member
I get that. I'd be pissed too. But if I found out the money wasn't coming in, I would definitely delete any evidence that might make me lose more money.
GHG
Member
It's worse than missing the lottery by one number.
It's like being given all the fucking numbers and then selecting different ones for no reason other than your own arrogance.
The CMA clearly outlined all of their concerns and what needed to be addressed in order for the deal to pass. And instead of sitting down with the CMA to get absolute clarification on what needed to be done in order to move forward they were all too busy making memes, attacking the competition, weaponising the media/twitter/forums/etc and in general behaving like a bunch of jumped up frat boys. They all thought that as soon as the console concerns were out of the picture that they had it in the bag and failed to read the room.
So, ultimately, it is what it is.
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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She probably deleted this tweet...among others.
Dunno I just heard she was deleting tweets. Must've dawned on her how dumb & unprofessional they were.
devilNprada
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I would go home and beat my dog...
DenchDeckard
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Well, cloud gaming is obviously a big deal and is going to take over within the next 10 years I guess.
Cya consoles.....
I feel like ive heard that before.
Cya consoles.....
I feel like ive heard that before.
Solidus_T
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The Worst Deal in Gaming!
Shadowstar39
Member
You obviously weren't around for the Xbone launch with "the power of the cloud".. Some pushed it as some secret special sauce, waiting to be unlocked, along with extra cpu and memory. When the bone unleashed it's ultimate form.... That of course never happened it was spouted by fanboys for years though. Talk went away when the pspro and xb1x launched.
Shadowstar39
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Who is this Colt Eastwood dousch? Seems like a giant fanboys shill, is a Microsoft employee?
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bitbydeath
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FTFY
Banjo64
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Facism
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dotnotbot
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Microsoft:
2018: Compulsion Games
2018: inXile Entertainment
2018: Ninja Theory
2018: Obsidian Entertainment
2018: Playground Games
2018: Undead Labs
2019: Double Fine Productions
2020: Zenimax & Bethesda - 10 studios included
2022: Attempt to buy Activision with 15 studios
Sony:
2019: Insomniac Games
2021: Housemarque
2021: Firesprite
2021: Bluepoint Games
2022: Haven Studios
2022: Bungie - independent, still multiplatform
2023: Firewalk
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Crayon
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There's megafans that they like to boost but keep at arm's length. Have cake/eat too.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
She's there to drum up the regressive twittard warriors and low IQ ignorance.
It's edgy "how do you do kids" marketing, just like AOC.
The perfect snapshot of Activision's internal culture.
X-Wing
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Wat the fuck is wrong with you?
Eotheod
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Edit: oh god this turned into a tldr woops. Essentially cloud gaming ain't happening because country infrastructure is shit house and you can't control that so it ain't moving needles.
Everyone is aware we are all armchair analysts right, and literally everything said so far is speculative and has much weight as the stupid twitter threads. Right? People aren't seriously believing what they are typing is a plausible scenario when there are actual specialists arguing on all sides that know their shit way more then we do. At least I hope the sane ones know we are just purely having speculative discussions.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy these breakdowns and commentary, it's what makes me come to GAF if not for the hilarious multi-faced turnabouts on all sides. Can definitely say some people have too thin of a moral compass that they literally spin the opposite way if the discussion isn't working out for their take. But at the end of the day we literally are people on an internet forum who probably all thought CoD wasn't actually that big of a deal.
Heck, I never thought cloud gaming was that significant of a market and still don't despite this decision. I personally, as I've said before, believe that market is deader then dead because it's reliance on country infrastructure to expand is what will stop it from doing just that. Standard console usage is far easier to sell then a cloud-based gaming service that relies on infrastructure that you have no control over, and is dependant on how much the country cares about said infrastructure.
Take Australia for example, as it's my home country and easiest to comment on. We have shit Internet infrastructure thanks to Liberals fucking with the NBN (National Broadband Network), and as such it's rollout was botched with poor performing services that can barely get to 100mbps. That's in built-up city coastal areas, go any further inland and you have a mishap of old technology such as ADSL or potentially 4G LTE if you are lucky. Starlink has helped slightly (we are third in the world for uptake), but nothing guaranteed.
S o with a country like Australia, you try to build up your cloud gaming inticements and the gamer userbase will laugh. It's impossible of a market to crack, and even if you get some it's barely enough to balance costs of developing titles and maintaining servers. I believe the CMA has put far too much fair in that market without realising the integral part to such a market; that infrastructure needs to be there and it currently is not and probably never will be.
Everyone is aware we are all armchair analysts right, and literally everything said so far is speculative and has much weight as the stupid twitter threads. Right? People aren't seriously believing what they are typing is a plausible scenario when there are actual specialists arguing on all sides that know their shit way more then we do. At least I hope the sane ones know we are just purely having speculative discussions.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoy these breakdowns and commentary, it's what makes me come to GAF if not for the hilarious multi-faced turnabouts on all sides. Can definitely say some people have too thin of a moral compass that they literally spin the opposite way if the discussion isn't working out for their take. But at the end of the day we literally are people on an internet forum who probably all thought CoD wasn't actually that big of a deal.
Heck, I never thought cloud gaming was that significant of a market and still don't despite this decision. I personally, as I've said before, believe that market is deader then dead because it's reliance on country infrastructure to expand is what will stop it from doing just that. Standard console usage is far easier to sell then a cloud-based gaming service that relies on infrastructure that you have no control over, and is dependant on how much the country cares about said infrastructure.
Take Australia for example, as it's my home country and easiest to comment on. We have shit Internet infrastructure thanks to Liberals fucking with the NBN (National Broadband Network), and as such it's rollout was botched with poor performing services that can barely get to 100mbps. That's in built-up city coastal areas, go any further inland and you have a mishap of old technology such as ADSL or potentially 4G LTE if you are lucky. Starlink has helped slightly (we are third in the world for uptake), but nothing guaranteed.
S o with a country like Australia, you try to build up your cloud gaming inticements and the gamer userbase will laugh. It's impossible of a market to crack, and even if you get some it's barely enough to balance costs of developing titles and maintaining servers. I believe the CMA has put far too much fair in that market without realising the integral part to such a market; that infrastructure needs to be there and it currently is not and probably never will be.
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Nydius
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It might be deader than dead now but that doesn't mean it always will be. As has been pointed out in the other thread with a link to an article on the topic, the decision is about preventing issues from cropping up in the future. It's a proactive block now rather than a reactive anti-trust lawsuit later.
But I feel ya about infrastructure. I live in rural Oklahoma and I'm lucky to have one high speed internet provider, which works about 85% of the time. Far too many outages and slowdowns for cloud to be effective right now. But if they just look at the here and now and give Microsoft all these resources, it's not farfetched to see a future where Microsoft has absolute dominance in cloud, server side hosting, and software to leverage people to only their cloud services.
Besides, Microsoft themselves have been banging about how the cloud is their "#1 priority" for years now. They can't turn around and complain when that very priority turns out to be the reason their acquisitions are blocked.
The Pleasure
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It is for a Phil Spender fan. What's a good game plus a good game equal? BUYOUT.
Bernardougf
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Sorry, wrong post
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MasterCornholio
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I'm curious about something.
Which ones were spreading rumours about the CMA approving the deal?
Seems to me that might have been done to influence the stock price.
Which ones were spreading rumours about the CMA approving the deal?
Seems to me that might have been done to influence the stock price.
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3liteDragon
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Pretty sure it originated from the Financial Times which claimed the CMA was leaning towards approving the deal.
Varteras
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The same Financial Times that posted this little piece after the deal was blocked...
UK tech scene raises alarm over block to Microsoft-Activision deal
Investors and entrepreneurs assess potential damage to British tech industry following blow to $75bn gaming takeover
www.ft.com
Meanwhile...
UK tech sector unfazed by regulator blocking Microsoft’s takeover of Activision
Founders and investors think the move could be a “net positive” for UK startups — as the country tries to hold onto its reputation as a good place to start a business
MasterCornholio
Member
Doesn't seem like they had any inside sources for that. It appears to just be speculation on their part.
I'm pretty sure someone said some insider said the CMA was going to approve this. But maybe I'm not remembering it correctly.
Portugeezer
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