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

Something I dont think was posted here before. Early on in the process the FTC came before a judge and told the judge and Microsoft that they were willing to negotiate. Then they spent the rest of the time not negotiating. Does anyone remember which judge the FTC told that to? Was it their ALJ during scheduling?

If so, Microsoft should cite that in refernce to how misleading and misrepresentative of their position to the courts.

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Old?

Itā€™s a opinion based on how MSFT lawyers responded to the P.I. situation so sortof old

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Yesterday ā€˜s news. They said this but who really knows. If we do go by this, then treat the upcoming event to be end all be all. Winner takes all. Endgame.

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Kinda. This is the stated reasoning for the extra time MS requested for the hearings

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Interesting

Recommend following, this guy is following the stock patterns of ATVI

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I donā€™t think that is uncommon before a long weekend for stocks to trade heavy, especially ones waiting on news. It doesnā€™t mean people know anything, just that news can come anytime.

If news was coming, wouldnā€™t that be insider trading?

I noticed that there was a huge buy volume in ATVI at close that pushed the stock above $83 for a very brief amount of time

Iā€™ve actually been thinking of buying some stock. It looks like itā€™s about to be jammed through to me.

Great timing too. Get it done so we can get Diablo on gamepass pronto. Blizzard is most likely gunna announce their next big game codename odyssey in a few months.

Diablo is making insane amount of money. No way ms put it on gamepass right away. They might do it during the fall.

Another thing is putting a game on gamepass a month after launch will piss a shit ton of people off who bought the game at launch.

Imagine buying a game and jts on gamepass after a month. That would be terrible. Ms will definitely wait to put dia lo on GP. If the merger went theough before diabloā€¦yeah they do it

I think theyll move all the legacy cod games onto it right away.

Its been going on since last Friday though before the FTC announcement came out. Theres definitely some insider trading going on right now

https://twitter.com/DMOptions/status/1667260038929604608?t=WsNnpFBx80UDXbjR9spoIw&s=19

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First of, please dont get investment advise on a video game forum. That said, if you buy it now for 82+, there is not a lot of up but it could take some time. But if the deal fails in the court with the FTC, ATVI will tank probably below 70. Thats a lot of short term risk for not a lot of gain.

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Ha! This is what Iā€™ve been saying! Microsoft would silo ABK to make it easier for regulators to force them to divest, that should be classed as a remedy imo. If Microsoft does become this huge giant in the cloud gaming, console gaming or whatever it would be easy for regulators to force them to sell up.

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Jim Ryanā€™s big mouth potentially causing issues for Sony and the FTC.

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