I think people should stop bringing Lina into the picture unless we have evidence that she influenced the CMA to take a different decision.
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Once upon a time the US was formed to get away from British government decisions. Yet here the US is now potentially colluding with the British government to harm US companies (note Im referring only to the claim from Bobby Kottick and do not consider Linaās origins any impact) 
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I am getting really fed up of all the xenophobia in this thread.
Just because the CMA said no and Khan also happens to have British parents it does not give anyone the right to discriminate the British people as a whole!
Admins please can you monitor this?! @Knottian
I assure you that if you speak to any average Brit they will have no love of our government either!
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People can say what they want about Bobby Kotick, fact is he built his ABK empire from the ground up and he is a great business man no matter what people think about him in regards to his other āissuesā.
Iām sorry, but the CMA being āindependentā and having no oversight by a judiciary body is not good thing. It gives them unprecedented power to block any deals they donāt like, plus the only way of appealing has a very high bar(CAT). This seems like its a system intentionally set up to put companies at the mercy of the CMA and there is literally no way they can overturn a decision(as people said here). This really contradicts the UKās message as a ābusiness friendlyā country. How can you claim that Britain is creating a business friendly environment, when you have a authoritarian independent body lurking in the corner ready to hamper your growth when they feel like it. This has to be addressed because long term, foreign governments will eventually notice and question why one nation in Europe is trying to play world police on antitrust.
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If Kotick said the head of the CMA met with Khan, itās because he suspects the CMA & FTC did collude. So that would beā¦ evidence enough for me.
I wonāt give these regulatory organisms an ounce of respect until they respect the duties of their own office & position.
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Down with the British! 
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I dont know if this was posted already but is something, still is just dissapointing how things ended this way, now I will focus on the event in june
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Destin is asking in a poll if people think MS will back out if EU blocks the merger as well. 57% thinks they will, 43% they wonāt
Based on 2.1k votes.
What do you think? Iām going with they wonāt.
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This is also true, met many great British folks and its not fair for them to get the blame, when their incompetent government is running things to the ground. Love the British folks I met, but not a fan of their government and how they work, especially post Brexit.
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I also want to add that itās within the FTCās powers to do so. Itās also within the CMAās powers to ācolludeā.
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Itās kinda bad on the other side of the coin of people who want it blocked, on that BBC radio call the lawyer on there said Brad Smith was just an angry American who is angry a small country like Britain stopped his deal, if the regulators and thinking that same thought then OOF. I know they probably arenāt and shouldnāt be but I could see it being a thing after half of the shit that has been said.
People should stop being extreme with it though.
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Who is discriminating against British people in here?
Their problems are with the UK government and their laws
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Really?
Thatās just one of plenty of examples if you scroll upā¦ perhaps you donāt see it as you have the same opinion?
To be fair most of them were initial reaction but itās still discrimination.
Heās an absolute scumbag POS and NOTHING he says should be taken at face valueā¦
What are we doing here?
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I canāt believe Michael Pachter is correct about the CMA offering Microsoft a way to get the deal done if they promise not to increase the price of Game Pass post-deal. Not when the stated reason for the block had very little to do with GP to begin with.
Ironically that would indeed be a consumer friendly order by the CMA, but itās extremely unlikely. Whilst theyāre at it they could do something about Sony increasing the cost of its PS5 in Britain as well (hell, what about every other firm abusing inflation right now to up the prices of their goods, across all market sectors).
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And the FTC are somehow better? I donāt think so.
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Another avenue MS can approach is that blocking a deal based on a submarket encompassing 1% of the revenue of the merging target is disproportionate. The SLC is within the cloud gaming market. A proportionate remedy should only apply to the cloud gaming sector.
So the proportionate remedies will be something like:
Divest Xcloud
No ABK games on GPU / Xcloud. etc.
I think this avenue is even stronger than my previous two, even though the remedies are not exactly palatable.
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Didnāt see his post, Iām not even sure what he trying to say here but overall I havnt seen an influx of Brit discrimination since this announcement happened, all Iāve really seen is people shitting on the CMA
Iām also from the UK btw
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I never said they wereā¦this isnāt a āwhoās betterāā¦
Sorry white knighting someone like Kotick because heās on the āright sideā or because it fits my narrative is just grossā¦