Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard Discussion Thread |OT3| - Sony bends the knee!

After he’s stopped in the pub for a few shots of Vodka to calm his nerves from the roasting he’s getting.

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Oh my

I think you have to wait until your dotage until you can have time to play these

Slight editing for clarity and misremebering exact words but implying the judge likely won’t be familiar with specific games because he won’t have time until he retires.

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Judge went through 400 pages on the weekend and the CMA are arguing for less than 50 pages.

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No wonder that vertigo games dev is shilling so hard for sony. Its a psvr dev that made arizona sunshine or whatever that trash is called. I knew something was up with that dude but its the first time i took the time to google them.

did i miss something? had to step away for a moment

Same here. Please elaborate.

No not really but he s always going against the deal and sayong ms has no chance and all that. He s active on other era but noone dares calling him out it seems.

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I guess he is thinking the same as that zombie head in the trailer.

ATVI stock is back up to 80. Looks like Diablo 4 will be a big success which normally would impact stock. Will be interesting to see how or if MS and ABK renegotiate the 69 billion $ pricetag.

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I’m not a lawyer, but proclaiming ABK would do something despite zero evidence to support such a claim while being presented with actual evidence to the contrary, seems pretty irrational to me.

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It will be funny if Phil phone the lawyer there now and tell them the case of Diablo IV not being in Game Pass is a crime against the world.

Activision Counsel just said Mr Williams (CMA Counsel) may simply accede now that he’s heard the argument. I think referring to allowing Activision to join as an intervener, but I took it to mean they might just agree to the whole thing for a moment.

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Question now, is will Sony intervene?

Well they apparently have to make that decision within days not weeks.

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Unlikely because their entire argument was based on the console market, not cloud.

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They probably shouldn’t. They currently don’t have much skin in the cloud streaming game, and MS and ABK counsel would just point to the worldwide cloud licensing agreements to counter any argument they might have.

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i think you are confusing 2 devs here. That dude from era is the dev behind the Cook, Serve, Delicious game series (which is also on Xbox btw).

Gee wonder what tone his posts will take? I’m sure it won’t be a negative view off todays activities.

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You guys are weirdly critical of Zappy just because he’s level headed about the whole thing.

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I think people are critical of Zappy because he seems to respond to every post with the usual “No one understands how the CMA and CAT works”, etc. :smile:

To clarify, I’m not saying he’s right or wrong. I also don’t think it helps that he’s telling people what they don’t want to hear.

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