Good point. I think they will though as the Activision name still carries a lot of weight similar to Bethesda.
True, but they could publish anything they want to make multiplatform (such as all new CoD games) with the Activision tag; but lets say they make a new single player Crash Bandicoot game and publish it under xbox games studios they could make that xbox/pc exclusive, IP rights don’t have to stick to a specific publishing arm unless that was part of the merger agreement.
Edit: also to add it didn’t say anything about blizzard and king in that statement either, they are currently owned by activision but I believe still publish their own games in their own name.
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Nope. They are being non-committal to prevent a future situation where their next acquisition could be hampered. “Case by case” basis. Case by case = Xbox exclusive
I don’t think it’s likely Microsoft will be deceptive and play on technicalities here, these things would only make future acquisitions more difficult.
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Jesus christ, how more pathetic can they sound? Just when you think you’ve heard it all, lmao. Pot calling the kettle…Sony with their practices basically making several multiplatform releases inferior on Xbox. Not necessarily tech wise, but content wise. Gtfoh man.
It’s possible that Xbox versions of future CoD releases will have a tech advantage because of XSX being the superior hardware, and that would be fine too. But clearly that’s not what Sony means here.
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Didn’t mean to make it sound like I think they will do it, just that they could if they wanted to; also they would probably use less known IP I was just using Crash as an example since its the first non CoD activision IP that came to mind.
IDK more games to more players does not mean All games
Activision/Microsoft expect remedy working paper from UK agency next week -report
End game is upon us.
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I looked up and found the following:
A remedies working paper, containing a detailed assessment of the different remedies options and setting out the CMA’s provisional decision on remedies, will be sent to the merger parties for comment following the response hearings. This paper will also set out the CMA’s views on whether the merger gives rise to RCBs, and if so, whether the proposed remedy should be modified in order to preserve those benefits. The merger parties will typically have at least five working days to respond to the remedies working paper
Sounds like this will be their provisional decision on what remedies they will accept, but there is 5 additional working days for Microsoft to adjust if their proposed solution just falls short or if they need to accept a more aggressive solution.
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The fact that Sony’s official response to the CMA’s updated provisional findings seems to include some careful wording for some possible appeal due to the CMA “surprising” change of mind tells me that Sony knows this is going in a bad direction for them at this point.
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Can’t imagine they’d have a case on that, the CMA came to a conclusion based on a mistake and having been corrected on that mistake came to a different conclusion. It was how it should have been,
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Yeah, an appeal is laughable by them if they somehow decided to do that (doubt it honestly). But the fact that they even included any such language is a clear indicator of how they view things currently.
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Wonder if this is normal procedure for all acquisitions or just with the ones where the CMA is negotiating with the parties for approval.
They’re basically in the trouble phase. When you have to object something, you know you got to do something before it’s too late. It’s worse that they started off in a fair position or I’ll go as far as going in winning position. It’s basically “stop the count” phase.
I imagine it’s relatively normal, cause technically blocking the acquisition is still an option and was among the concessions they listed (though I don’t think that is exactly a likely outcome at this point) so presumably even if they were giving a hard no to an acquisition they’d still be going by the same process.
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Got it, thanks!
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I may have understood it wrongly, but you still think a block is a very likely outcome at this point?
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OH no i meant to say the exact opposite my bad!
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No worries. Technically, you are right in that we cannot be absolutely certain, but it seems more likely at this point for this deal to be approved with formal behavioral remedies for cloud gaming.