Dude had the wrong time zone lol, he needs to go to bed
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nah, I feel theyâll make live service games multiplats .If thereâs an OW 3, then I can easily see it being on Playstation. However, I could see DIablo 5 being xbox only since microtransactions arenât that big in that game tbh.
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https://twitter.com/shpeshal_nick/status/1680008991131435010?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ
Time for reverse. Bethesda already telling you that. Get ready for A-B-K! YEAH!!!
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I used to think the same thing but then I look at Sea of Thieves, State of Decay 2, Grounded and Forza Horizon 5 and im like, yeah, they donât need to release co-op/multi-player games on PlayStation because if the game is good and gets a lot of content, they will get a pretty big player base plus theyâll also have PC.
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sp glad the deal is closing. finally time to put this behind us. what a ride. lots of ups and downs
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The Reverse Undertaker.
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I kind of stopped paying attention but canât it not go thru still cause of the CMA?
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Yeah i think a lot of people confuse Xboxs release policy with Sonys where GAAS launch on PC and PS5âŚbut apparently Xbox games must launch on Xbox, PC and PS5 for some reason.
Theres no need to launch Xbox games of any kinf on PS5.
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Microsoft will have Xbox Series, PC via Steam, Epic and Windows Store. Plus potentially Battle.net depending on what they do with it.
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Dammit the Financial times released this article a couple of minutes ago but sadly ist paywalled.
âUk regulators open door to quick Microsoft-Activision dealâ
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Dont know if its the same article or if they updated something because the one I posted was uploaded 45 minutes ago. Hope someone with a sub lend us a hand.
Insane that some months ago the market was sure the deal died but now thinks it has more than 80% chances of going throughâŚjust wow.
UK regulators open door to quick Microsoft-Activision deal | Financial Times
UK regulators have opened the door for Microsoft and Activision Blizzard to close their $75bn video games deal within as little as six weeks, as the companies scramble to restructure their agreement to satisfy competition concerns. Meanwhile, the US Federal Trade Commission failed late on Friday in its last-ditch attempts to prevent the deal from closing in the US. Its request for a preliminary injunction to block the deal pending a separate action was denied by the Ninth Circuit Court of appeals, the day after a similar injunction request was denied by a federal court in San Francisco. The actions left approval in the UK as the only hurdle left for the companies in their efforts to seal the deal. The UKâs Competition and Markets Authority on Friday said it would push back a July 18 deadline for it to block the deal until August 29, after receiving a âdetailed and complex submission from Microsoftâ. The company argued that the agency should re-examine its conclusions due to âmaterial changes in circumstance and special reasonsâ. That timetable could allow Microsoft to complete the merger more quickly than the CMA had suggested earlier this week, when the agency said a restructured deal would trigger a new investigation, likely taking several months. The CMAâs move to reopen deliberations about its final decision, which is unusual so late in the regulatory process, revives the potential for Microsoft to resolve the watchdogâs concerns about competition in the cloud gaming market. The CMA did not provide details of Microsoftâs submission, which was made more than a month ago. The extension comes as Microsoft explores ways of restructuring its cloud gaming business in the UK to appease the CMA, which ruled in April that combining the maker of Xbox consoles with the creator of hit games including Call of Duty and Diablo would give it âthe ability to undermine new and innovative competitorsâ. The UK competition regulatorâs objections are seen as the last big legal hurdle facing the worldâs largest video games deal, after US courts earlier this week sided with Microsoft to reject an initial attempt by the Federal Trade Commission to block the merger. The merger agreement between Microsoft and Activision Blizzard is due to expire on July 18, which would allow either company to walk away from the deal and triggering a $3bn break fee. However, after this weekâs legal victory in the US courts and a potential lifeline in the UK, people close to the companies say they are likely to agree an extension to the deal early next week. âThings are moving quite quickly,â said one person close to the negotiations.
One potential concession to the CMA under consideration by Microsoft is a move to sell cloud streaming rights to its catalogue of games to another provider in the UK, according to people familiar with the discussions. The arrangement might see Microsoft in effect exit the cloud gaming market in the UK or hand over operations of a games streaming platform for its Xbox console to a third party. Microsoft has sounded out potential investors and operators about such a deal, which might assuage the CMAâs concerns that the Xbox maker would have too much control over the nascent market for cloud gaming. Bloomberg earlier reported details of the cloud discussions. Microsoft and Activision Blizzard declined to comment. Gareth Sutcliffe, analyst at Enders Analysis, said that such a deal would be âreally clunkyâ for consumers but âmight be a way around the CMAâ. âMicrosoft will be running the numbers for a UK carve-out that will please the CMA,â he said. âThey would be looking at least-worst options.â
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A Bloomberg article that is several hours old but it has an interesting tidbit:
But there are options available, according to Tom Smith, a competition lawyer at Geradin Partners and ex-CMA legal director.
âItâs all quite debatable, but I believe the most likely route to allowing the deal to close by Tuesday is for the CMA to issue a derogation from its interim order,â said Smith, a competition lawyer at Geradin Partners and ex-CMA legal director, referring to the formal notice the deals watchdog issued in May ordering the companies to remain separate pending a final decision.
âThey could allow the deal to close but require the Activision Blizzard business to be held separate pending the final order,â he said. âThe CMA would look reasonable while preserving their position.â
Spokespeople for Microsoft and Activision declined to comment. The CMA didnât immediately respond to a request for comment on the process.
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Thanks!! If MS manages to pull this off before the deadline that would be mounstrous.
EDit: oh so they have been in talks with the CMA for over a month? Interesting. I wonder if the that theory of the FTC rushing for the PI because they saw MS and the CMA working for apprival might end being true lol
I think that even if the details arenât formalized in time, the CMA will agree to the deal closing pending those agreements being finalized in the UK. This actuality maintains at least some credibility for the CMA compared to the FTC clown show. And I donât think Microsoft will be willing to wait around after the 18th for some other crazy shoe to drop.