Judge mentioned during the pre-trial hearing that her son works for Microsoft. She might also prevent Sony and FTC from redacting things.
Tweet thread summing up hearing today.
This is absurd, how can that even be legal. Geez.
Judge mentioned during the pre-trial hearing that her son works for Microsoft. She might also prevent Sony and FTC from redacting things.
Tweet thread summing up hearing today.
Even though I think that's a bluff. The judge needs to consider that if she doesn't grant the injunction and if she believes MS will close over other regulators, then she is basically enabling MS here.We might need to consider what could happen if the injunction isn't granted. Will they close everywhere except the UK for example? What about New Zealand and Australia?
Judge mentioned during the pre-trial hearing that her son works for Microsoft. She might also prevent Sony and FTC from redacting things.
Tweet thread summing up hearing today.
If the FTC saw an issue with Judge they could have requested another judge correct?
If not , I hate to say it this thing is going through at least past PI. CMA is another story, feel like MS is going to take the hit on fines closing without CMA.
I'm being completely honest here. This gen has been putting me off of the Xbox brand more and more.
Not because of lack of games or some obscure feature they don't have. Certainly not because of the power narrative.
When I had an Xbox One S, I was enjoying some games and discussing with a few people. Now it's all this corporate boot licking and quite disgusting behavior from MS themselves.
Why would I care, right? Just play the games and don't mind anything else. Gaming is my main hobby. MS' actions affect the entirety of it. I simply can't enjoy a brand with some of the most toxic corporate suits in the industry. We've always had back and forth with companies and fanboys always existed. But it was never this bad.
You have Xbox executives weaponizing their entire Twitter fanbase, before deleting the tweets when things get too hot. We've got disgusting comments from their executives just now coming into the light. Their entire company culture reeks of teenage tantrums and dudebro toxicity.
The fanbase is even worse. It's the most radicalized fanbase in the industry now. They employ the most shills/astroturfers and influencers that further perpetuate that toxic fanbase. You simply can't criticize anything and discussions all revolve around money this and corporate boot licking that. They venerate executives more than they like games.
I know it's a strange thing but each time I go to turn on my Series X (with a GPU sub no less), I feel put off because of the state of the company.
P.S.
Sorry for the rant. Needed to get that off my chest.
Microsoft calling Exibhit K a business strategy "thought experiment" only adds credence to the accusation. They really did strategise to acquire multiplatform publishers to force PlayStation out of the market.
Zero media outlets are interested in pursuing the story. Imagine if one of Jim Ryan's internal emails proposed buying long-time publishers to kill Xbox. It would be front page news.
We truly are witnessing the corruption of gaming journalism.
YeahThat means the deal is far from dead. Sigh.
In the era thread shitstains like sullivan still have the deshonesty to argue that ms havent pull any content from bethesda because they patch fallout76 to ps5
But now it is okay for them though. No conflict of interest whatsoever.
I think the ftc and the cma are working togetherKinda funny how the ones who blew a gasket over someone at the CMA having an extremely vague/indirect association with Sony are perfectly fine with this judge and her son's direct connection to Microsoft. I'm sure they have a million bad and condescending explanations as to why this is different though.
I'm still holding out hope that the CMA's decision to block and their considerably higher amount of authority compared to the FTC means that it doesn't matter so much if the FTC can win this.
CMA blocked it, and double downed on it. and here, you are mumbling something about stallingI think the ftc and the cma are working together
They're just stalling time now until the July 18 deadline
That's the strategy imo
It's dead. The deal requires CMA approval and that's not happening.That means the deal is far from dead. Sigh.