Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

Dr Bass

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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.
 

FatKaz

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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?
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.

You'd think the reasonable thing here to do would be to grant the injunction and essentially stop MS from starting a legal battle with the UK.
 
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Darth Vader

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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.



I only see freedom there. The correct decision will grant her son freedom to stay employed, perhaps with a lot of stock options and a promotion.

Pretty cool, right?
 

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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.
 
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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.

Maybe this specific judge actually has a moral backbo--

oh who the hell am I kidding :/

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.

I'm in the same boat. Cannot genuinely enable a company that openly weaponizes FUD and hyper-aggressive politicized attacks against competitors, closely associating with among the worst of toxic console warriors in their ecosystem, constantly pushing deceit and lies with the messaging around their games, platform initiatives, services, hardware etc. , and reward that with my money.

Thankfully, if I really want to play some of their games, I can get a PC, abuse the hell out of MS Reward points and redeem those to play those games through Game Pass for free, and without spending a cent of my own money. Maybe if MS clean up their messaging, optics and how they associate with/manipulate the worst parts of their fanbase, and they can keep some consistent quality & variety in their 1P games, I'll reconsider their ecosystem as a real option in 3 or so years.

But for now? No dice. I have to stand by my principles.

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.

Sadly true. But, that's okay: we can do the gaming media's job for them.

Keep reminding people about this stuff in unpredictable ways, at unpredictable times. Find clever ways to do it, to reference it. Don't be afraid to press games journalists on Twitter why they aren't talking about this type of stuff. Bring it up to Phil Spencer, Brad Smith, Sarah Bond, Matt Booty, Aaron Greenberg and other Xbox & Microsoft executives when they want to gloat about something else.

They'll be forced to acknowledge the truth directly or indirectly, and they'll never feel comfortable in online discussions as long as they keep pretending it's not real. Show some of the fake progressives at places like ResetERA what real progressivism looks like 😉
 
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Judge: My son works for Sony

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Xbots on era know FTC will fail because its how murica works

But to be honest its funny how People from a so called "leftist anticapitalism safe haven forum" are cheeeing for one of the biggest and rutless megacorps on planet earth to buy anything to destroy adversaries and ask for corruption on places like usa or the UK, its Pretty telling how mods are also doing this, this is how the world and human nature works
 

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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
 

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But now it is okay for them though. No conflict of interest whatsoever.

Kinda 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.
 
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Kinda 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.
I 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
 

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I 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
CMA blocked it, and double downed on it. and here, you are mumbling something about stalling :D

FTC also came in with fire arguments which destroys m$ nonsense.
yet, your outcome of that, FTC is stalling :D

stop using cheap drugs.