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

[TheAshCohen09 (Ash Cohen)]

@Zappy5

So frustrating that they are dragging this out though. I guess it won’t close now till 18th October.

Looking at the documents they were originally going to refer it to Phase 2

[Deus (Encyclopaedia Ludica)]

https://twitter.com/BradSmi/status/1705107310073512252?t=1xLkwEoh_xa2SO1rpleC_A&s=19

[Jorge_Alexander_Acos (Jorge Alexander Acosta Duarte)]

It would have been far better, though, if Microsoft had put forward this restructure during our original investigation. This case illustrates the costs, uncertainty and delay that parties can incur if a credible and effective remedy option exists but is not put on the table at the right time

Pfffft…fucking idiots.

[Jorge_Alexander_Acos (Jorge Alexander Acosta Duarte)]

From past cases of then I’ve seen this past week, this is the wording the use to basically approve a deal.

[j0nny5]

[BRiT]

@Jorge_Alexander_Acos

It would have been far better, though, if Microsoft had put forward this restructure during our original investigation. This case illustrates the costs, uncertainty and delay that parties can incur if a credible and effective remedy option exists but is not put on the table at the right time

Pfffft…fucking idiots.

Indeed. This is all on CMA. They were the ones who stopped communicating with MS and ABK.

[LeeLayfield (Lee)]

It’s almost over!!! What an ending to a week.

"Xbox Has No Games" After Buying ActiBliz & Bethesda

[Jorge_Alexander_Acos (Jorge Alexander Acosta Duarte)]

@BRiT

Indeed. This is all on CMA. They were the ones who stopped communicating with MS and ABK.

They killed the cloud gaming “market” just to save face, what a bunch of morons.

Hope they get torn apart when the UK government inevitable finds that it is not possible to become “a sillicon valley” when you have an overzealous (and dishonest) regulator.

Seriously, what a circus

[Lil_Bai]

Like I said before, there is nothing to worry about ever since the announcement of the ubisoft deal. It is clear that CMA agreed with this solution, so why do ppl think they’ll reject it lol.

[AtticusFincher]

If the CMA had made that one of their behavioral remedies I’m sure Microsoft would have taken it. Instead they proposed 3 nonstarter options that would have broken up ABK in ways that no longer made them desirable…which was their intention. CMA remains a clown shoes organization.

[Deus (Encyclopaedia Ludica)]

https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1705116234994290704?t=-NLKqtye1wLMB7bC0StgBw&s=19

[leburn98]

I thought the CMA doesn’t accept remedies

[strawman]

@leburn98

I thought the CMA doesn’t accept remedies

It was a structural remedy of sorts. Microsoft had to give up on the cloud rights to over 50 years worth of ABK’s catalogue during the formative period of the streaming market.

[MJ_INC]

@strawman

It was a structural remedy of sorts. Microsoft had to give up on the cloud rights to over 50 years worth of ABK’s catalogue during the formative period of the streaming market.

I think it’s just for games that come out after the deal is signed and for 15 years

[leburn98]

@strawman

It was a structural remedy of sorts. Microsoft had to give up on the cloud rights to over 50 years worth of ABK’s catalogue during the formative period of the streaming market.

Sure. However, after the 15 year contract expires, Microsoft can do whatever they want with future ABK output.

[Sparda3g]

Never doubted Tom Warren. Wow. We’re officially in the endgame.

[strawman]

@strawman

It was a structural remedy of sorts. Microsoft had to give up on the cloud rights to over 50 years worth of ABK’s catalogue during the formative period of the streaming market.

Activision was founded in the 1980s and Microsoft will only have the rights to games developed in 2039 and onwards. If cloud gaming doesn’t take off by then, it probably never will… Meaning MS cannot leverage the ABK catalogue during the early years, which is supposedly why the deal was blocked back in April.

[Voodoopeople]

Well, this is done now.

Thank God.

I sincerely hope this deal goes through , specifically in time so MS can save Crystal Dynamics and Eidos from Embracer. I am hopeful that by teh end of October, MS will also announce the acquisition of both of these studios.

[leburn98]

So apparently Microsoft cannot any % or all of Ubisoft for 10 years as part of this remedy. So theoretically, if Microsoft wanted to reacquire the streaming rights, they could buy Ubisoft in year 11😜.

As per reksveks from OtherEra :

• Delivery of Activision Games - sublicensing the cloud streaming rights and tech material/documentation for those rights

• Licences to MS - purchaser can’t sell the rights back to MS exclusively

• No Interference with Purchaser’s Cloud Streaming Rights - MS can’t impact Ubisoft rights

• Trademark License - purchaser gets a royalty and non-exclusive sublicensable trademark rights

• Game Technical Support, Game Ports and Technical Work, and Platform Work - purchaser can request ports and ms can charge purchaser

• Development and Release Date Parity - purchaser needs to have the ports/streaming versions ahead of commercial launch including dlc

• Sale of Purchaser’s Cloud Streaming Rights for Activision Games and Related DLC by Purchaser - Need to read this more

• Audit Rights- purchaser can audit MS once a year to verify compliance

• Marketing - parties should make commercially reasonable efforts to ensure license or rights cover the use of marketing materials from the purchaser

• Terms and Termination - the party can’t terminate the deal due to any breach by the purchaser

• 5 days to propose a trustee on closes and MS will pay for it (seems normal)

• MS can’t buy % or all of Ubisoft for 10 years

• CMA can extend the time periods in the undertakings ??? " The CMA may, in response to a written request from the Parties, or otherwise at its own discretion, grant an extension to any time period referred to in these undertakings."

[Resist]

Warren sources were right, ha.