Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard Discussion Thread |OT2| The NeverEnding Acquisition

[howlingmosquito (mosquito)]

@Haven

It would be nice if Microsoft could just spin off Activision and keep Blizzard and King, but I doubt Activision would agree to that.

Activision wouldnt mind. The whole sale goes through before this happens, ABK stock holders get their payout and wash their hands of the issue. Microsoft then has to divest Activision…which means they can be sold to another 3rd party or remain independant…MS could even buy 51% and assume voting control…they wouldnt own CoD at that point…just be a majority share holder in an independant set of studios.

[pg2g]

Rolling COD publishing into a different company would probably kill off the chances of COD Day 1 on Game Pass. They’d have to pay ‘market rate’

[Thebaconlife]

my stance still hasnt changed from day one. 100% this go though

[hexbacon]

Florian Mueller

[Dizzydan015 (Daany)]

If the deal doesn’t go through, I could see Microsoft acquiring a lot of other studios

[Ace_Maverick]

@Bob_Lawpel

Well, there still Hope. But looks like to me either sell CoD or the deal get blocked Either Way Sony wins. Sony wins more if Microsoft sells CoD because I bet it be Sony that either buys them or lock up exclusive deal with the company that does. Microsoft should of fired there lawyers and Hired the one Sony Hired.

This post is a joke…right? If not…LMAO!

[Hix]

As an aside, you’ve got to hand it to Jim Ryan and Sony.

They’ve managed to convince the CMA that, somehow, Call of Duty being available on Game Pass and cloud gaming (instead of just £70 retail) is damaging to both poor gamers and cloud only gamers. They’ve also somehow twisted their own market position to hinging almost entirely on this one shooter. Amazing! Genius!

Meanwhile, Sony recently increased the prices of the PS5 and PS5 games in the UK. To ensure that you have to buy a PS5 and PS5 games at said inflated prices, they’ve moneyhatted third party developers specifically requiring them not to release their games on other platforms.

Competition alive and well! Cheers CMA!

[Privat33r]

@Ace_Maverick

This post is a joke…right? If not…LMAO!

i think the stupidity of the cma is infectious

[Jorge_Alexander_Acos (Jorge Alexander Acosta Duarte)]

@hexbacon

Yeah this caught my attention. Were the deal all but dead to this point ABK’s shares would have collapsed already.

Seems the bet of this going throught or not (or MS abandoning it) still on…who will prevail!!!

We will hear anything when those 2 weeks are over or we will have to wait untio Aphril to know whats happening?

[hexbacon]

@Jorge_Alexander_Acos

Yeah this caught my attention. Were the deal all but dead to this point ABK’s shares would have collapsed already.

Seems the bet of this going throught or not (or MS abandoning it) still on…who will prevail!!!

We will hear anything when those 2 weeks are over or we will have to wait untio Aphril to know whats happening?

You’d think that the market would collapse after the news, but the news are more positive than expected. Seems MS has been working in remedies for a time.

[anon74828371]

CharlieIntel

[Solidevolution (Brandon B)]

Come on Satya, Phil, Bobby and Lulu! Keep up the great work!! Get the deal pass!!!

[hexbacon]

@anon74828371

They are already talking about integration

[Swanlee]

@anon74828371

Interesting

17. In most CMA merger investigations, the detailed assessment of remedies begins only after the Provisional Findings – where the CMA provisionally concludes that a Merger gives to an SLC (or SLCs). While the CMA’s guidance notes that merging parties have the option to engage in discussions about potential remedies before the Provisional Findings (‘without prejudice’ to the question of whether the Merger gives rise to an SLC),9 there is no requirement for merging parties to do so – and the Parties in this case have not yet proposed any potential remedies to the CMA.

Yea this tells me the deal will go through. The CMA has not officially considered things we know MS will do, 10 year deal for cod to remain multi platform, COD going to Nintendo consoles.

The current CMA findings have been done and do not consider these things we already know MS is going to offer.

It is very possible that will be enough for the CMA and the deal will go through as is after those details have been hashed out and signed into something legally enforceable .

[Infamy]

Activision and Microsofts response (boy, they’re fast) plus the fact that CMA are open to remedies are incredibly encouraging. The doom and gloom is rather weird, to be honest.

[Zappy5]

@AllianceOfficer

It is a structural remedy. Behavioral remedies change the way that the entity behave. Structural remedies fundamentally change the setup of the organization. Today, Activision is a publisher of Call of Duty, in that structural remedy they would no longer be able to publish Call of Duty. Someone else would have to do it.

But you are talking about a publishing deal. Rather than divesting publishing control rights.

A publishing deal is a contract only. So it’s not structural. There is a contract that is only good so long as good faith is observed.

Structural remedies are such that they are permanent and irreversible.

Letting a third party publish games that Microsoft control and own the IP is merely a behavioural remedy.

[DixieDean82]

@Swanlee

Ya this tell me the deal will go through. The CMA has not officially considered things we know MS will do, 10 year deal for cod to remain multi platform, COD going to Nintendo consoles.

The current CMA findings have be done and do not consider these things we already know MS is going to offer.

It is very possible that will be enough for the CMA and the deal will go through as is after those details have been hashed out and signed into something legally enforceable .

People in the know on era say remedies are very rarely if ever accepted. It’s a token gesture on the part of the cma.

[Cyclonesweep]

@Swanlee

Ya this tell me the deal will go through. The CMA has not officially considered things we know MS will do, 10 year deal for cod to remain multi platform, COD going to Nintendo consoles.

The current CMA findings have be done and do not consider these things we already know MS is going to offer.

It is very possible that will be enough for the CMA and the deal will go through as is after those details have been hashed out and signed into something legally enforceable .

I don’t think the CMA has EVER agreed to behavioural remedies like that.

It seems pretty clear cut. Microsoft cannot own Call of Duty and it needs to be sold to a third party publisher.

I’d say there is a 10% chance this deal goes thru. Without CoD I can’t see Microsoft going thru with this deal at all cause they will not get fair value and the rest isn’t worth all that money. That and what, all of Activision itself is pretty much JUST Call of Duty?

Again I stand firm on my opinion, this is going to end up a massive failure from Xbox and set the brand back a few years. So much wasted time.

[Privat33r]

@DixieDean82

People in the know on era say remedies are very rarely if ever accepted. It’s a token gesture on the part of the cma.

no one in the era forum is in the know. Except idas. So take their opinions with a grain of salt.

[Privat33r]

@Cyclonesweep

I don’t think the CMA has EVER agreed to behavioural remedies like that.

It seems pretty clear cut. Microsoft cannot own Call of Duty and it needs to be sold to a third party publisher.

I’d say there is a 10% chance this deal goes thru. Without CoD I can’t see Microsoft going thru with this deal at all cause they will not get fair value and the rest isn’t worth all that money. That and what, all of Activision itself is pretty much JUST Call of Duty?

Again I stand firm on my opinion, this is going to end up a massive failure from Xbox and set the brand back a few years. So much wasted time.

set back why exactly? lol MS has over 25 studios and buying ABK wasnt in their plans. IF it wont go through they will keep heading along as they planned before all this deal.