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

[CryOn]

@Frost

I think this could end with Microsoft killing xCloud and thus the cloud market having no hope if they aren’t allowed to make any acquisitions anymore…great job CMA and also screw unions too

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@Frost

I think this could end with Microsoft killing xCloud and thus the cloud market having no hope if they aren’t allowed to make any acquisitions anymore…great job CMA and also screw unions too

I don’t think its that dire

[Arthur_Garton]

@Frost

I think this could end with Microsoft killing xCloud and thus the cloud market having no hope if they aren’t allowed to make any acquisitions anymore…great job CMA and also screw unions too

@Frost

I think this could end with Microsoft killing xCloud and thus the cloud market having no hope if they aren’t allowed to make any acquisitions anymore…great job CMA and also screw unions too

Tbf the CMA union hating is not exactly news considering they are a Gov org

[Jeans]

It feels like they wanted to delay this thing as long as they could. They could have been blocking this thing a long time ago but they chose to drag their feet. That decision feels so damn stupid, like something coming from their magic hat at the last minute.

MS could win the appeal but they still would have delayed the deal a year further.

[RagiBaal]

@euV2

Even though MS will appeal, the process is going to take some time

Not necessarily…apparently bigger mergers get priority with CAT.

[Zappy5]

@RagiBaal

Meta and Giphy was appealed off procedural errors which is why the deal still got blockrd

MS ABK appeal would be based off irrationality on this case blocking off a non existent market that has a million different variables , this is the type of argument that CAT would throw in the trash

The threshold required to prove irrationality is very high. Maybe listen to those lawyers who have been through this before and they all say the same thing. Judicial review standard makes this really really hard.

[RagiBaal]

Paul Tassi

Yeah CAT is absolutely tossing this in the trash

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@Arthur_Garton

Tbf the CMA union hating is not exactly news considering they are a Gov org

They’re an independent body from the government I think

[Daniel]

@RagiBaal

Yeah CAT is absolutely tossing this in the trash

They think it’ll be a 11bn dollar industry in just 3 years lol they’re on acid I think.

[MJ_INC]

@RagiBaal

As much as it pains me to say this, Xbox and consoles are at the bottom of the list of priorities

PC, Cloud and mobile are all taking priority over consoles

We are absolutely 4th class citizens and i dont blame MS, console market has peaked and is never going above 200M

I’ve heard the argument lately but how does it make sense? Cloud runs off series X blades, if the game isn’t running great on console it by definition won’t play well on cloud. As for mobile, Microsoft have nearly no foothold in the market this deal would have helped it tremendously. The biggest players in the mobile market are Chinese companies so almost no chance Microsoft buys one of those

[TheLegendaryGamer]

@Daniel

I don’t think they need to hide anymore even if they appeal it’s just cloud stuff they’ll need to worry about, them announcing a new partnership with X company isn’t going to bring on any concern with cloud

OK, still gone to take atleast another year. CMA gonna take their sweet time and milk it.

[euV2]

@RagiBaal

Not necessarily…apparently bigger mergers get priority with CAT.

The gamebiz article said up to 9 months, probably done in less. Still it’s much longer than anticipated.

[Sparda3g]

Jez 💀

They weren’t kidding when they said CMA is random.

[Zappy5]

@euV2

The gamebiz article said up to 9 months, probably done in less. Still it’s much longer than anticipated.

Some have taken a year. Will depend partly on the complexity of evidence.

But I think 6 months minimum.

[Friday]

Disaster

[Thebaconlife]

Im still confident this is going though at the end of the day but damn this is getting old. over cloud gaming no less. now we may have to deal with this though 2024 ugggh

[CryOn]

@Sparda3g

They weren’t kidding when they said CMA is random.

You mean incompetent.

[anon85340516]

Welcome to the uk bois. This country has been going down the drain for a while.

[JD_URAMESHI (Jordan)]

I know some of you are mad at this because maybe we miss out on acquisitions but what if and hear me out Microsoft has already put in place possibly if acquiring the studios after this deal with activation goes through like let’s say the studios they partnered with they’re going to keep funding them and working with them until the deal goes through so that they can be acquired that could be a possibility

[fort96]

@RagiBaal

As much as it pains me to say this, Xbox and consoles are at the bottom of the list of priorities

PC, Cloud and mobile are all taking priority over consoles

We are absolutely 4th class citizens and i dont blame MS, console market has peaked and is never going above 200M

I’m sorry, but I don’t agree. Do you want to enter the PC market? Fine. In the mobile market? Okay. In the cloud market? Good for you. There will be users interested in each of the three selected markets, but the same goes for the console one. You can’t treat your console users like second class customers just because you want to expand into other markets. As a console user, I always expect the best from Microsoft, what they do elsewhere shouldn’t matter to me. Let me be clear: it’s okay for Microsoft to expand into other markets, but not at the cost of ignoring another part of the user base.