To understand the problem of over-regulation just look at Europe.
Which part of EuropeâŚor should we just look at all of it?
Nice, working as QA tester is shit, I hate my job 
Now just imagine working as a QA tester in the gaming industryâŚ
Anyway, hope we get all COD games on Game Pass soon hehe gonna beat CoD 2, 3 & MW3 (already beaten: MW, MW2, BLOPS 1, 2 and 3, COD 5, AW, Ghosts)
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Bunch of games will require BC support I think.
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Fucking union busting bastards! I hope this gets Ravens QA Testers to push even harder!
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Ane theres the catch there is always one in this industry
Based on the supposed approach to fighting the merger, I expect this will not be a round that the FTC actually attempts to really fight. I forsee them using this as a test run in the preperation to try and fight tech mergers in the future. Currently the ground theyâre talking about are very easily disputed and disproven for this case.
You say this as if it were up for debate. Itâs not. We arenât guessing whether the FTC cares about where CoD ships. Brad Smith explicitly told us the FTC cares about that specific question. Donât try to argue that the guy didnât say what he very clearly said.
Most ABK games being multiplat, sticking to existing contracts with Sony and being open to re-up those agreements, GP baseline price not going up for maybe 5 yrs or something. Maybe something about not unfairly leveraging Azure for xCloud compared to Sonyâs service assuming Sony/MS are still doing something with Azure. Nearly all of this stuff are things MS has committed to doing already, btw.
Donât see any way King would get split off since MS doesnât hardly exist in the mobile market atm. Donât think anyone would get split off here. MS has signaled they are happy to concede in various areas where there could be concerns, which tells me they are committed to making sure this goes through. I donât see the FTC pushing this into court.
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I think what he wants to say with those % is that theres 70% probability for the deal as it is (ABK now under MS, no problems with other susbcriptionsâŚetc) and 30% of probabilities for the deal to have some kind of heavy conditions (get rid of something, for example)
Not 70% deal going through/ 30% falling apart. He does seems to believe the deal will go through.
Yeah, pretty much what I expect. MS just make sure the deal goes through to get rid of Boby and bring those game to steam and pc gamepass!!
Except he never explicitly stated regarding their commitments to multiplatfrom releases. Jim Ryan explicitely stated about the commitment to multiplatform releases, but the very fact that rather than saying âwe will continue to releaseâ MS said that âthey will keep games availableâ and the fact that while answering about exclusivity Brad Smith went on a long monologue about community, Minecraft and so on tells you that they did not do any commitments there that would make FTC trying to do something that would not be laughed in the court. Because just by keeping Warzone 2 on Playstation literally have COD available and with subscriptions and various skins Warzone 2 becomes Minecraft (it is a stretch though).
But we already went through these debates and we both know that we do not agree with each other on this particular topic 
And all in all until 2024/2025 nothing will change much. Especially with COD potentially becoming biennial.
Oh wow, so its like they want to demoralize ravenâs union? Wouldnt this have the contrary effect?
"We also recognize that regulators may well have other important questions as they review our acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Weâre committed to addressing every potential question, and we want to address publicly at the outset two such questions here.
First, some commentators have asked whether we will continue to make popular content like Activisionâs Call of Duty available on competing platforms like Sonyâs PlayStation. The obvious concern is that Microsoft could make this title available exclusively on the Xbox console, undermining opportunities for Sony PlayStation users.
To be clear, Microsoft will continue to make Call of Duty and other popular Activision Blizzard titles available on PlayStation through the term of any existing agreement with Activision. And we have committed to Sony that we will also make them available on PlayStation beyond the existing agreement and into the future so that Sony fans can continue to enjoy the games they love. We are also interested in taking similar steps to support Nintendoâs successful platform. We believe this is the right thing for the industry, for gamers and for our business."
-Brad Smith, President of Microsoft (and formerly their lead lobbyist on antitrust matters)
Stop gaslighting.
LMAO
The sheer fact that they used the word âavailableâ (not release) tells everything you need to know. I do wonder how many lawyers proofread that document though 
Man this imageâŚthis imageâŚ
Imagine how casuasl would react looking at this.
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You are not reading what is being put in front of you. You repeatedly claim that the FTC doesnât care about CoD. And yet, Brad Smith literally says the FTC does care about CoD and what platforms it lands on and they know the FTC will be asking them about that.
I do wonder how active online will be in some of those games though. I also recall that none of those games has enhancements in BC now right? (I am not even sure if ATVI even has BC games available on Xbox though)
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Good question, my bet is they will put the backwards team to work on them (maybe)