Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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I never understood the idea that things couldn't be fixed over there without being bought by Microsoft. The work environment needs to be massively improved without a doubt, but imo that can be done without lining Kotick and Lu Lu's pockets and giving Xbox an unfair advantage.You heard it on Era
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Exactly, and it makes the nauseating gloating going on in here particularly sad. No empathy for the actual human beings here as long as their favourite box continues to be in the lead.www.resetera.com
Basically what this dipshit is arguing is that workers cannot organise themselves for better rights without being under Microsoft, a company known for never been against unions.
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So why are morons still blaming Sony on this? Sony was found not to be in danger if this goes through. This was blocked based on the cloud concerns, something Sony doesn't even actively pursue yet.
Wait.. I thought the CMA was in the bag? Did the checks not clear or what??
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Of course. People can unionise regardless of who the owner is, so this bullshit argument never held any water.
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He works for Axios. I'm very curious to what he has to say.
Didn’t the CMA block the nvidia/arm merger too? Like.. are they the only antitrust institution that actually do their job?
I'm not salty at all. I don't care if they are acquired or not, as I don't care about their games (as I remember I never bought any MS game, and the last Activision game I bought was for a 8 bit computer).
Now MS will fight the CMA in the court, which I assume will take years and won't change anything unless MS in some way signs that they'll publish CoD (and maybe more ABK IPs) their games forever in Sony's console and cloud gaming forever without asking Sony anything in exchange.
And now this summer MS will have to pay again some billions to ABK stakeholders (making Kotick richer) as penalty for not having completed the acquisition before July.
I'm happy because pretty likely means that ABK games will continue in PS at least for longer. I don't care about these games, but I know many do.
I also think the CMA is wrong because the potential ABK exclusivity on cloud gaming wouldn't have affected the market meaningfully, and also because the cloud gaming market will continue being a tiny portion of the gaming market for at least a decade or two and that if someone has a better position to dominate it in the future it's Sony, not MS.
A Microsoft ambassador / PR tool.
Nah, he will explain them that MS will pay billions this summer as penalty for not having completed the acquisition on time, making them (mostly Kotick) richer.
He has to continue as CEO, because the acquisition deal mentioned that if acquired he'll continue in charge (even if will report to who would acquire them, the MS gaming division/Phil).
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