Come on now. Who?
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Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine
probably Tencent
probably Tencent
That basically means nothing since MS doesn't own ABK yet.
Pretty shrewd/cynical political move. This way they can push the narrative that anyone who opposes the deal is anti-Ukraine and attempt to shame regulators.
What's next? MS is going to give a 10 year deal to The Sega Channel and the Ouya?Come on now. Who?
Microsoft announces a 10-year partnership to bring Xbox games to cloud service Boosteroid | VGC
The deal will include Activision games like Call of Duty should its acquisition be completed…
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But remember, they can't do a deal for Diablo 4 on gamepass because they don't own the IP yet.
Come on now. Who?
Microsoft announces a 10-year partnership to bring Xbox games to cloud service Boosteroid | VGC
The deal will include Activision games like Call of Duty should its acquisition be completed…
They really don't want to go above a 10 year deal lol.
They can announce a 10 year deal with pornhub for all I care. It’s not going to change anything when we have seen first hand how easily they wrangled themselves out of the Bethesda behavioural remedies. No regulator is going to want to police that shitshow again.Come on now. Who?
Microsoft announces a 10-year partnership to bring Xbox games to cloud service Boosteroid | VGC
The deal will include Activision games like Call of Duty should its acquisition be completed…
I'd like to see MS commit to making 'Call of Booty' for Pornhub though.
Don’t give them any ideas.. as we’ve seen everything microsoft touches turns to dust. Remember mixer..
Technically, you can run COD on boosteroid now. You're just not supposed to.
They are using the Ukraine war to manipulate and pressure the regulators. That is so gross 
Considering Microsoft's history with violating behavioral remedies (btw remedial discussions can infer both behavioral and structural) not even that far in the past, I doubt regulators are going to be convinced behavioral remedies are enough.
If they are, they might as well paint a target around their ass and let Microsoft land a bullseye. That's how much the regulators would be openly inviting MS to screw them.
Factually not true, because most people who mention 'remedial proceedings' are only thinking of behavioral remedial discussions because they are either ignorant or favor the deal anyway and want things to be as "easy" for Microsoft as possible.
But they forget that remedial proceedings include both behavioral and structural remedies, and the CMA specifically have already said they favor structural remedies for acquisitions such as this one. The fact Microsoft has shown they are willing to violate terms of behavioral remedies for previous deals, pay the fines, then skip wider enforcement of rulings by specific regulatory bodies because they only have jurisdiction in their territory, are all things being kept in mind today and also reinforces the sheer difficulty in enforcing behavioral remedies, which is a reason structural remedies are favored in the first place.
Come on now. Who?
Microsoft announces a 10-year partnership to bring Xbox games to cloud service Boosteroid | VGC
The deal will include Activision games like Call of Duty should its acquisition be completed…
There are inconsistencies even within the article. They say Boosteroid is the "largest cloud gaming service provider" but they recently just passed 4 million users? Doesn't GeForce NOW reach over 6x as many people? PS Now almost had 4 million users at its peak, and people called that a failure.
It's obvious Microsoft's strategy here; they're reaching out to no-name, effectively gimped non-competitors or in the case of Nintendo, companies that simply offer no competition to them in terms of services & shared 3P customer bases, to bolster the number of people they can "liberate" access for COD to. Look how economically progressive we are! Can we increase our ESG rating yet!?
You still didn't see them give a damn about Google or Stadia, they could've made an offer to them anytime last year. They're avoiding Amazon and Luna like the plague, and guesses as to why? Heck, if they can promise to make COD run on Switch, why couldn't they make it run on an Apple TV 4K? You see them making any offers to Apple?
Microsoft only made an offer to Sony because even though they see Sony as a competitor, that only goes as far as console gaming is concerned. If they feel they could get the deal approved without making offers to Sony, they would have done so. MS's "real" competitors are the other Big Tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple (so they weren't lying when they said that); the messed up part is that they have chosen gaming as the differentiator they can have over the other Big Tech companies and since MS were so inept building a presence in mobile, they're trying to consolidate a presence in console gaming.
There is no route where Sony isn't eventually screwed over by MS's consolidation strategy, because MS is using gaming consolidation to fight against the other Big Tech companies and their console brand has lost in competition with PlayStation for the better part of 20+ years again due to MS's ineptness. Due to the size of the other companies MS feels they have to compete against, if they've chosen gaming as their distinguishing factor, and can't rely on mobile (since Google & Apple rule that roost), then MS will keep consolidating console gaming companies to shore up what they need and that inevitably cuts Sony the deepest.
So this guy's a complete asshole after all.
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This is a new low score for Microsoft using a war ridden country for their political agenda. Just to convince the regulators. Shame on this company…
And reee is eating it up.. I’m not even surprised.. microsoft is scumThey are using the Ukraine war to manipulate and pressure the regulators. That is so gross
One minor correction, when they say largest cloud gaming service, they mean largest independent service, so not one that's part of a larger company like Nvidia.
Man, this is a cynical and scummy as hell tactic.