The grounds for appeal are “Sony rulez, Xbots drool” and “Micro$$$oft has no organic gamez”.
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Yeah, they cant just appeal because they feel like it.
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Late to the party here, i’m on discord server mostly.
HOW ARE WE TODAY FELLAS?
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0%.
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Nope. They’re not. You can take this to the bank.
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Thank the heavens this is ending, i want to play Diablo 4!
I think they will. But then they just seem like they have to make a lot of noise to no effect.
I don’t think so. The UK folding shows no confidence in FTC also Lina Khan has to appear before congress on Thursday. Iina has a lot on her plate right now and she is running out of money. Lina Khan goes to Congress (washingtonexaminer.com)
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Jez is right. The real takeaway from this win is that Xbox is staying. I know it’s exaggerated to say no ABK means Xbox is doom, but the idea is, Xbox is not going away when they have cash flowing from CoD, exclusives from others, and many more. They won’t disappear. They will grow.
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If FTC isn’t appealing then what would “announcing their next step” entail???
There shouldn’t be a pause, but Microsoft should sit down with them to try and negotiate something. Because this could be the CMA trying to delay once more, so not giving them a pause will force them to negotiate in good faith.
Continuing their in house trial. Or other cases.
microsoft and ABK also agreed to the pause
they also said they are working with them, that tweet doesnt really have the details
Okay I got it. I was reading their response as it’s connected to the merger.
https://twitter.com/charlieintel/status/1678822342649081860?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
What a world.
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I can’t see this happening
Losing xcloud in the UK is one thing, losing GP is another
It’s coming home
When I think of CoD’s glory days, despite being completely multiplat I, always associate those days with the 360 and I’m sure many others do too
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if cma is doing for delay, they are doing in bad faith, then CAT will not like that
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Even if the FTC wants to try and stick to their guns and appeal there isn’t any reason to think they are going to find a sympathetic legal system.
Not only that but the FTC can still pursue a case to block the merger if they want. They just don’t get to force Microsoft to not close in the next week or two.
I think I was seeing online that the injunctions are granted something like 70% of the time? If they failed here that’s a pretty big signal they’ve got a bad case. So why would any judge grant an appeal to the FTC when they can still litigate later if they want and it’s very likely the case is poor.
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That includes non-merger cases, and horizontal merger cases. Easy to get a PI when your case is that some company is currently fucking over customers by making it hard to cancel subs or something.