Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

[Bryank75]

I'd like Apple to buy ABK and clear it out....in terms of management.

Then they could make the mobile version exclusive to IOS and the console / PC version exclusive to PS / MAC.

Fuck yeah!

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

Comcast is an Internet provider and probably the biggest around North America. If they do, every gamer would win. No fear of losing some critical franchise. But as I pointed out, I doubt it. Comcast can’t afford something big like ABK. Maybe a merger but that’s it.

FWIW, Disney was able to afford Fox (sans Fox News). They took out a lot of loans to do it, though.

In general I wouldn't go by market caps to say a company can or can't afford to acquire another; they can always use other means besides or in addition to cash.

 

[Deleted member 417]

Saudis? This thread has taken a turn into the realm of the mentally-hilarious.

Let MS buy ABK and EA and T2 and Ubisoft. They're all studios with great IP's that are either ignoring them or milking them to death with MTX, P2W, Lack of innovation or 'current year' trend chasing.

Let MS buy them all and crash the industry with no survivors. It's the only way to get the hobby back on track.

 

[VillaiN]

I just read Comcast s interested in EA. Interesting.

 

[Nhomnhom]

Let MS buy them all and crash the industry with no survivors. It's the only way to get the hobby back on track.

I'm all for this. I don't like a single active ABK IP at this point.

 

[Puff]

 

[gokuss4]

So ms will leave the uk market
Interesting

 

[Johnic]

Please brute force this and get shat on. Kill that brand once and for all.

 

[Nhomnhom]

The CMA is pretty much fighting for all of it's power, if they can't even block some gaming acquisition why would they be able to block anything else? MS would be pretty much taking a massive dump on the UK.

It's so weird how committed MS is to get this trough goes against all reason. This is clearly part of their plan to challenge the App Store and Play Store, it's the only thing that makes sense.

They seem to have no self awareness, I wish they had no involvement with games. What a disgraceful and cancerous company. They should be broke down into a million pieces.

 

[AshHunter216]

Interesting that for one option they would have to convince Activision to leave the UK in order to close the deal. There's not a lot of indication as to how much Activision are willing to sacrifice in order to ram this through.

They also have the unsurprisingly scummy idea of closing anyway and just daring the cma to do something about it in court.

 

[Puff]

 

[Swift_Star]

MS is, pardon the language, FUCKED.

 

[Swift_Star]

Interesting that for one option they would have to convince Activision to leave the UK in order to close the deal. There's not a lot of indication as to how much Activision are willing to sacrifice in order to ram this through.

They also have the unsurprisingly scummy idea of closing anyway and just daring the cma to do something about it in court.

ABK is already getting cold feet. The deal is dead. ABK is not jeopardizing its operations because MS, this is a no-go.
It's looking more and more dead by the day.

 

[Eternal_Wings]

They are coping hard lol

 

[Sircaw]

Turkeys voting for Xmax.

 

[Heisenberg007]

This looks very fake and reads more like a pressure tactic to pressurize CMA and CAT into thinking "Well, MS is going to bypass us anyway and probably exit the UK market in favor of EU, so how about we approve it and save face?"

But this is all bullshit and fanboy fiction. Microsoft will never leave the UK.

 

[Swift_Star]

This looks very fake and reads more like a pressure tactic to pressurize CMA and CAT into thinking "Well, MS is going to bypass us anyway and probably exit the UK market in favor of EU, so how about we approve it and save face?"

But this is all bullshit and fanboy fiction. Microsoft will never leave the UK.

If this is to put pressure on CMA, it makes for a really bad look, tbh, and will push CAT to simply not accept the appeal.

 

[FatKaz]

Yeah defintley feels like another last desperate attempt at pressuring the CMA and CAT. Everything is slowly pointing towards abk getting nervous about the deal.

I serously wonder how this goes down with the CAT when the court case kicks off in July. This isn't a good look.

 

[gokuss4]

Yeah defintley feels like another last despereate attempt at pressuring the CMA and CAT. Everything is slowly pointing towards abk getting nervous about the deal.

I serously wonder how this goes down with the CAT when the court case kicks off in July. This isn't a good look.

They need this deal to happen cuz if they failed
It will be hard for them or I should say impossible to acquire another publisher

 

[Eternal_Wings]

I thought Idas would be neutral…seems I was wrong