This is so ridiculous on Microsoft's part lol. The hits just keep on coming from that company.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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This is so ridiculous on Microsoft's part lol. The hits just keep on coming from that company.
A few more details on what the FTC is requesting.
5 weeks without sending the documents requested.
Both Microsoft and Activision? What a coincidence. Yeah they definitely have nothing to hide…
Both Microsoft and Activision? What a coincidence. Yeah they definitely have nothing to hide…
5 weeks without sending the documents requested.
Both Microsoft and Activision? What a coincidence. Yeah they definitely have nothing to hide…
But everyone is saying they are the good guys on Twitter!
If you even say one word against the deal 100 Xbox shills jump out of Timdog & Jez Cordens pockets and keep messaging you till you get sleepy and have had enough....
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Why have all the money in the world if you can't even buy plants and social media accounts... "contracting" through many shells/layers of plausible deniability of course but still... the point. It should be expected. When it's a "fair" fight, that is when you should start asking questions as to whether MS is doing enough, is committed enough or whether there is a leadership problem - of a dumb nature at that. The system revolves around money. As the saying goes, it takes money to make money. In this case, money to manufacture perception, social or otherwise to get a deal passed to make even more money by "hoping" to gain leverage/control of a market of "strategic" importance to a "natural" monopoly. True for Sony as well, the motive being the opposite, to stop the deal. There's a lot of money on the line, $Billions yearly. Investments are more than justified in all ammo classes, traditional and non-traditional. It's a zero sum game play.
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I haven't messaged you about it at all, thank you very much!
The narrative that the FTC doesn’t have a case still stands? They’re all in into this.
You know you've something to hide when you don't comply with the government. And MS had the gall to complain about the FTC being unconstitutional.
If it was only on twitter I think anyone could manage it.
People on the purple site went from "eat the rich" and "think of the employees first" to "my favorite company can do whatever it wants"
People on the old site went from "gamepass, gamepass, have you heard of gamepass" to "gamepass is going to be more awesome, trust me bro"
At this point I am so saturated that I say, let MS buy Activision and destroy it, both companies deserve each other and most of us do deserve to be screwed up - again!!! Maybe people will learn this time, the hard way.
If it's any consolation, most on N4G don't seem to like it either.If it was only on twitter I think anyone could manage it.
People on the purple site went from "eat the rich" and "think of the employees first" to "my favorite company can do whatever it wants"
People on the old site went from "gamepass, gamepass, have you heard of gamepass" to "gamepass is going to be more awesome, trust me bro"
At this point I am so saturated that I say, let MS buy Activision and destroy it, both companies deserve each other and most of us do deserve to be screwed up - again!!! Maybe people will learn this time, the hard way.
If it was only on twitter I think anyone could manage it.
People on the purple site went from "eat the rich" and "think of the employees first" to "my favorite company can do whatever it wants"
People on the old site went from "gamepass, gamepass, have you heard of gamepass" to "gamepass is going to be more awesome, trust me bro"
At this point I am so saturated that I say, let MS buy Activision and destroy it, both companies deserve each other and most of us do deserve to be screwed up - again!!! Maybe people will learn this time, the hard way.
Yup, I would absolutely love to see Apple, Google and Sony ban them from all their platforms...
Imagine!
Frankly, I am done with their games anyway. So I would really love to see Sony just stick it to them.
People on Gaf and on Ree are being manipulated, not the first time it happened, it will not be the last time either. Also we gamers make it easy to be vulnerable to deceitful intentions.
Do you remember when Epic used teenagers to take down Apple. Then Microsoft joined the lawsuit with Epic? 3 shitty companies trying to destroy each other.
Apple will not allow Microsoft ( who failed to have their own mobile ecosystem ) to simply leech on Apple’s ecosystem. Neither will Google.
I am more inclined to think MS will be to busy fighting with Apple and Google and will shift their focus away from gaming, thus continuing to mismanaging their studios.
So I guess we're on step 2 right now. Wonder if anything will be made public aside from the final report.
The Ree thread has devolved into a bunch of disingenuous shit-eating with a grin. Winfonda is racking up W after W over there, and some of them have the temerity to question his entirely accurate reading of CMA's stance that 10 year commitments are not going to be accepted. You even have some of the idiots confessing they know MS is going to pull the rug after the 10 years, while others pretend Microsoft will renew (or has incentive to) "who's to say they won't?"
If it were just about MS collecting COD checks they would have a ton of options.
Structure the company as an independent subsidiary like Bungie. Maintain ownership but give up voting rights on ABK company issues.
They could also be talking about licensing where the licensee is given the right to renew in perpetuity - eg like Sony and Spiderman movies
None of this is being offered because it's about removing COD from competitors if not now then in 10 years
Structure the company as an independent subsidiary like Bungie. Maintain ownership but give up voting rights on ABK company issues.
They could also be talking about licensing where the licensee is given the right to renew in perpetuity - eg like Sony and Spiderman movies
None of this is being offered because it's about removing COD from competitors if not now then in 10 years
So we will find out way before the April decision date where this deal goes, it could be dead at step 3 if CMA hold firm on structural remedies. MS pr is what will be are sign the next few weeks as it always has been.