Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard Discussion Thread |OT4| - Dawn of the Final Day, Deal is done!

[TLLDOB]

@bcatwilly

…red deal from Microsoft. I think that they are taking the right approach to start with trying to address things with the CMA, but they absolutely will not and should not permit the UK government to block a deal of this importance between two U.S. companies when the facts are that consumers including in the UK will benefit. I get the thought that you don’t want to be on the bad side of regulators in the future which is why they are going with this current approach, but it cuts both ways of course too. You cannot allow the UK to establish a precedent where they can torpedo your business now and in the future as some self-appointed gatekeeper of the world or something, and they will close the deal and fight in the courts and through government level if the CMA doesn’t play ball reasonably here.

Microsoft does not get to decide the CMA’s decision.

[bcatwilly]

@TLLDOB

Microsoft does not get to decide the CMA’s decision.

LOL, that is not what I said. I said that I believe they would ultimately close over the CMA if somehow they continue to act unreasonable with proposed solutions. They cannot allow the UK to be a stop on their business worldwide with idiotic regulation, and I believe they would be okay in the UK due to either appeals tribunal or just government level interventions and other things IF that path had to be taken. I still think the CMA will likely accept a reasonable restructure because they will want to avoid additional trouble beyond that too.

[Sparda3g]

https://twitter.com/stallion83/status/1683149091990061056?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ

Oh I can’t wait for Game Pass!

[ForwardPushing]

Starting to have my doubts that the CMA are going to take up Microsoft’s proposal. I don’t like the rhetoric I’m hearing for the CMA in public.

[Hue]

@ForwardPushing

Starting to have my doubts that the CMA are going to take up Microsoft’s proposal. I don’t like the rhetoric I’m hearing for the CMA in public.

If you were the CMA would you say we messed up in public or would you try save face?

[KakkaKarrotKake]

@ForwardPushing

Starting to have my doubts that the CMA are going to take up Microsoft’s proposal. I don’t like the rhetoric I’m hearing for the CMA in public.

What exactly do you expect them to say?

[ForwardPushing]

@Hue

If you were the CMA would you say we messed up in public or would you try save face?

The rhetoric doesn’t come off as constructive. I’m not expecting them to say we messed up, but the rhetoric comes off as needlessly aggressive.

[Infamy]

@ForwardPushing

The rhetoric doesn’t come off as constructive. I’m not expecting them to say we messed up, but the rhetoric comes off as needlessly aggressive.

What are you talking about?

[Rsebi]

ForwardPushing is XboxEra version of Stibbs

[ForwardPushing]

@Rsebi

ForwardPushing is XboxEra version of Stibbs

Lol, just don’t have a good feel about it.

[strawman]

@ForwardPushing

The rhetoric doesn’t come off as constructive. I’m not expecting them to say we messed up, but the rhetoric comes off as needlessly aggressive.

This is literally the saving face part of the process. The FTC got destroyed in court by MS and the CMA’s final report is a similarly laughable document full of bad faith arguments that would get picked apart by the Microsoft lawyers. No guarantee MS would win, but it would still be an awful look for the CMA given how grotesque their final report is.

So now they can pose how strict they are and are only considering Microsoft’s proposal out of grace, while they’re likely fairly compliant behind the scenes.

[ForwardPushing]

@strawman

This is literally the saving face part of the process. The FTC got destroyed in court by MS and the CMA’s final report is a similarly laughable document full of bad faith arguments that would get picked apart by the Microsoft lawyers. No guarantee MS would win, but it would still be an awful look for the CMA given how grotesque their final report is.

So now they can pose how strict they are and are only considering Microsoft’s proposal out of grace, while they’re likely fairly compliant behind the scenes.

I hope you’re right, but just have a feeling they are going to block no matter what.

[lunanto]

@DixieDean82

That stibbs poster on other era is a tedious troll.

I love how he says “unfortunately I dont have a good feeling about this”.

Unfortunately my ass.

Lowest quality concern trolling.

[ForwardPushing]

@lunanto

I love how he says “unfortunately I dont have a good feeling about this”.

Unfortunately my ass.

Lowest quality concern trolling.

I never said “unfortunately”. I’m not concern trolling, I just have reservations about whether CMA is bringing a good faith effort toward their negotiations.

[TheAshCohen09 (Ash Cohen)]

@ForwardPushing

I never said “unfortunately”. I’m not concern trolling, I just have reservations about whether CMA is bringing a good faith effort toward their negotiations.

I don’t think the Tribunal will take very kindly to the CMA messing parties around. The whole idea of delaying the litigation was to work something out.

[EPC]

i am pretty sure CMA does not want to close the deal. I feel they will have to.

[Red_Jinno]

@ForwardPushing

Lol, just don’t have a good feel about it.

Keep those feelings in a box

[ForwardPushing]

@TheAshCohen09

I don’t think the Tribunal will take very kindly to the CMA messing parties around. The whole idea of delaying the litigation was to work something out.

That’s what I thought until I heard Sarah Cardell talk. She basically stating that the proposal from Microsoft has to be perfect or they won’t budge.

[commanderbuck]

@ForwardPushing

That’s what I thought until I heard Sarah Cardell talk. She basically stating that the proposal from Microsoft has to be perfect or they won’t budge.

She’s just putting on for the public. The CAT meeting told us everything we need to know.

[QuietGamer90 (Tawsif (Rafee))]

@ForwardPushing

That’s what I thought until I heard Sarah Cardell talk. She basically stating that the proposal from Microsoft has to be perfect or they won’t budge.

She did not say those words. She said that MS’s proposals will have to properly address their competition concerns, nothing about it being perfect.

For the original decision, they reportedly stopped communicating with MS in the last few weeks leading up to their block. And now, CMA will have to make sure they are communicating in good faith as CAT is also watching too.