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

[johancruijff]

Onto the next one

[lunanto]

AREA21 - We Did It | @AREA21

[CallMeCraig]

@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.

Thats the same passive aggressive handwriting like after the EU approved the deal. Someone at the CMA is still super salty about all that, lol.

[Freed]

@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.

Well their original theory was console harm and that was addressed immediately. They got this cloud market out of their asses later, and MS had no idea they took it that seriously when it’s a nothing market. They really make no sense

[Zappy5]

@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.

I think she has a point. The FT having an analyst saying the same thing. All along people said the CMA weren’t going to take a behavioural remedy and so it proved. MS misread it as if they’d ditched the idea of behavioural remedies and come up with something like this earlier the deal would be long done. Their error was as I said at the time a misread of the CMA and thinking they would bend or change.

[Staffy]

@BRiT

That’s exactly how the ones you’d think of behaving, are behaving now. I don’t mean the lovely animals that are similar to a horse.

[Daniel]

@Zappy5

I think she has a point. The FT having an analyst saying the same thing. All along people said the CMA weren’t going to take a behavioural remedy and so it proved. MS misread it as if they’d ditched the idea of behavioural remedies and come up with something like this earlier the deal would be long done. Their error was as I said at the time a misread of the CMA and thinking they would bend or change.

They wanted MS to divest the entire A side of ABK which was an insane ask, I think this was always gonna land this way but of course the CMA is gonna try and say they were right all along and it was Microsoft that was in the wrong.

Look how quick they were to try save face, they made it as hard as possible to look tough, do you not remember their emoji filled tweets at the start and the weird ass statement after EU approved? The FTC and CMA weirdness.

[Staffy]

I’m seeing shit like “can’t wait for CoD at 30fps and having to fast travel to get to enemies.”

And people wonder why we don’t really like PlayStation fans.

[CallMeCraig]

@Zappy5

I think she has a point. The FT having an analyst saying the same thing. All along people said the CMA weren’t going to take a behavioural remedy and so it proved. MS misread it as if they’d ditched the idea of behavioural remedies and come up with something like this earlier the deal would be long done. Their error was as I said at the time a misread of the CMA and thinking they would bend or change.

Without the CAT stuff these remedies would not have done it for the CMA.

[strawman]

OtherEra’s dream of Microsoft being forced to port games to Playstation is dead in the water.

[Anecronomicon]

@Staffy

I’m seeing shit like “can’t wait for CoD at 30fps and having to fast travel to get to enemies.”

And people wonder why we don’t really like PlayStation fans.

I noticed that little gem on GAF. The worst part is they think they’re being clever.

IQ in that forum must be pretty low if that’s all they’ve got.

[strawman]

@Zappy5

I think she has a point. The FT having an analyst saying the same thing. All along people said the CMA weren’t going to take a behavioural remedy and so it proved. MS misread it as if they’d ditched the idea of behavioural remedies and come up with something like this earlier the deal would be long done. Their error was as I said at the time a misread of the CMA and thinking they would bend or change.

The provisional findings were 98% focused on the console SLC, with no analysis of the cloud market, no feedback from cloud market participants and so on. In the light of dropping the console SLC, it’s no surprise MS thought the generous and wide-spanning behavioral remedies would suffice.

[Freed]

@Anecronomicon

I noticed that little gem on GAF. The worst part is they think they’re being clever.

IQ in that forum must be pretty low if that’s all they’ve got.

I don’t understand why anyone sane would go to that place. On top of the fanboyism it’s unmoderated toxicity and hate.

[Staffy]

@Anecronomicon

I noticed that little gem on GAF. The worst part is they think they’re being clever.

IQ in that forum must be pretty low if that’s all they’ve got.

Yeah, but it’s good to see some level headed folks there too going against it. I wonder how long they can last with mods being so ridiculous there.

[Daniel]

@Anecronomicon

I noticed that little gem on GAF. The worst part is they think they’re being clever.

IQ in that forum must be pretty low if that’s all they’ve got.

Gonna use my fav diss,

Room temperature IQ

[binarymelon]

@Resist

Warren sources were right, ha.

He was saying next week. What a hack.

[/s]

[Sparda3g]

I forgot he’s in NYC, so he probably haven’t seen the news yet.

[Staffy]

@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.

This!!!

Embracer clearly needs saving.

[Zappy5]

@strawman

The provisional findings were 98% focused on the console SLC, with no analysis of the cloud market, no feedback from cloud market participants and so on. In the light of dropping the console SLC, it’s no surprise MS thought the generous and wide-spanning behavioral remedies would suffice.

Except well before that there was plenty of commentary that the cloud issue would be harder for ms to remedy. It was not like it wasn’t discussed. I think even I had posted on here that cloud was going to be a more difficult issue to solve given the CMA’s remit to look at future and emerging markets in the way they did. But pretty sure analysts also mentioned it as a problem in the run up.

[Sparda3g]

https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1705168519342465470?s=46&t=O_AGT9SEnlptKOF_2SxtqQ