Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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Yeah saw that earlier.
MS appealed on the market definition as well.
Well we now have EC calling it a market and south korea as well.
I don't know if FTC have come out and said they consider it a separate market, but they seem aligned with the CMA and most likely call it separate as well.
That appeal on the market defintion ain't looking so good.
They would have to fall back on their other arguments, namely that owning ABK wouldn't give them an unfair advantage in the cloud market and that the 10 year deals should be good enough to solve everything.
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From the school of we are fucking cheapasses and Want everything top quality and free, a lot of the xbox fanbase its like that, leeches
What if Klobrille is Florian Mueller? Both are silly Microsoft fanboys and coming from Germany. Thoughts?
Watching the CAT conference
The judge called the MS lawyer a crystal ball gazer
The judge called the MS lawyer a crystal ball gazer
So, things aren't going well for MS?Watching the CAT conference
The judge called the MS lawyer a crystal ball gazer
To be seen yet. They're only after speeding up the appeal process atm which the Judge is against
Good. Era reporting is not good, too much distorted interpretations.
As far as I understand things, the CAT ruling doesn't happen today regardless, but I could be mistaken. Apparently the hearing is supposed to go on for a few hours as well.
It does not and it'll take a long time by the reportings. The judge seems to not want to speed up the process.
It seems that ABK might pull out if this isn't closed by July 18th.
So, it's safe to say that, unless this is a bluff, the deal is truly dead.
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If what @MrRevocs1256 is correct, it's actually unexpected for me: I always thought MS would get cold feet, not ABK.
Too bad.
It ain't nothing to Microsoft, lets hope ABK accepts an extension and raises the fee to 6 billion.3 billion hurry
ABK might lose the window to renew contracts with Sony for their games (which are pretty valuable, regardless of delulded xbots saying their relationship is sour, it's not). Also, the deal probably freezes reinvestment in the company.
They probably simply want to move on from this.
I know Bobby Kotick seemed to want the appeals process sped up. Good to see that he might not get his wish.