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Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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Now that every pundit, influencer, and internet poster thought the CMA was going to approve this and got a wrong. I'm more confident in my stance that the FTC has a better shot fighting this in court than most people want to admit. The Meta Within case that people like to trot out was so much smaller than this and much harder to prove a future monopoly. But on this one FTC will have all of the data from CMA's block and the deal is MUCH larger.
If the FTC takes the next step forward with their lawsuit within the next couple of weeks, it'll make things a lot harder for MS since they'll then have to fight them and the CMA. It'll also put pressure on the EU; Would they really want to be the odd ones out and decide to wave the deal through? The plan might be to make things so inconvenient, expensive and time-consuming for MS and ABK to continue this fight that their investors decide to abandon the merger.
They really believes CMA is one person?
Until 2021 they had 851 employees.
The doc was done by a team and revised by several others.
One side safe space? And for people that agree with CMA docs? Are there a thread for these?
A clear example of what Jez do.
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Turns out Sony was actually being pretty classy and MS proposed deal was in fact offensively inadequate. MS is fucking pathetic, all the theater and talk about them walking around with the deal...
Of course that Nvidia and all those cloud services without store fronts would sign while Sony, Amazon and Google would take offense.
If I was the Sony guys I would mock MS relentlessly going forward, drive them our of the console business and then blacklist them.
Jim Ryan is looking better than ever and this whole thing was not being covered fairly at all. Shame on Phil Spencer and that Brad guy.
Of course that Nvidia and all those cloud services without store fronts would sign while Sony, Amazon and Google would take offense.
If I was the Sony guys I would mock MS relentlessly going forward, drive them our of the console business and then blacklist them.
Jim Ryan is looking better than ever and this whole thing was not being covered fairly at all. Shame on Phil Spencer and that Brad guy.
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Yep.
This will be the week that killed Xbox. Those disgusting offers are an example of what a Microsoft would do if they owned the industry. It's not enough that Xbox goes third party, they need to be driven out of business and Microsoft needs to be broken up.
3 more hours til Sony earnings drop.
'Regulators don't understand our business' 'Irrational' 'flawed' 'creates a lessening of competition' .... guy is so angry.
Underneath here, we have Michael Pachter who is actually wearing some of his clown makeup;
It doesn’t even matter if they do, the CMA put the bullet in the head of the deal by blocking it.
One out of four saying no was all it took.
The fact that the cma came out first and blocked it means all the other regulators can see all the public, un redacted documents to add their complaints. Im sure the ftc has all the goods but just the fact we learned how bad the cloud deals actually were supposed to be where MS would keep 100 percent of all transactions might make the EC feel like they were lied to if they didn’t know.
Another factor is China too. Netease said they had the regulators ears and seem to be on the warpath. Not to mention US and China tensions are high now. I can’t predict what they do but I wouldn’t be surprised to seen them block it, especially now that the cma has.
One final thing, ALL the experts, ALL the analysts, ALL the influencers were wrong. We had like the wal street journal telling us the cma was about to approve the deal just a few days ago. I now think all positive media about this deal has been fake and astroturfed and in reality it never really had a chance as we’re seeing.
My question is WHY is Microsoft going this hard for the Xbox division? They’re burning their reputation and money on failing division. Is it because they think they will control gaming with this or are they just that arrogant?
Another factor is China too. Netease said they had the regulators ears and seem to be on the warpath. Not to mention US and China tensions are high now. I can’t predict what they do but I wouldn’t be surprised to seen them block it, especially now that the cma has.
One final thing, ALL the experts, ALL the analysts, ALL the influencers were wrong. We had like the wal street journal telling us the cma was about to approve the deal just a few days ago. I now think all positive media about this deal has been fake and astroturfed and in reality it never really had a chance as we’re seeing.
My question is WHY is Microsoft going this hard for the Xbox division? They’re burning their reputation and money on failing division. Is it because they think they will control gaming with this or are they just that arrogant?
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It’s not even a feeling, it’s a fact. MS was stupid and went hard throwing money and lobbying on media in hopes this would get there somewhere, turns out UK isn’t USA where money solves everything.
Because they want to dominate gaming. MS dont stand not being leader in a segment it’s part of. They tried the same with phones until they got out. I wish they got out of gaming too because they’re cancer.
This isn’t us grasping straws, this is you having to contend with the harsh unrelenting reality that the deal is dead & now you have to keep looking for what Microsoft will do to Xbox as a brand because this is a serious jeopardy & a damning situation to their (potentially) decade-long plan for Xbox as ABK was the most important component for this to work in their view and it got fucked.
Be careful, Xbox is dying a miserable death and I wouldn’t grasp at straws if I were you.
Anyone knows how our friends Riky and @adamsapple are doing? Are they ok?
Every acquisition, at least in gaming, will now be looked at through this lense, if that makes sense.