Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

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who is this Florian Müller guy? An utterly clueless Microsoft shill, judged by his Twitter Likes.

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haha, we joke about how its all fun and games, trolling, and just videogames and what not, but a lot of these guys have very real consequences if xbox fails. MS shill lawyers, windows central, all of them stand to lose a lot the smaller xbox gets.
 
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The only way for Gamepass to work for large devs is to release on PC, PS and Nintendo day 1. Wait about 2/3 years and wait for Spencer to fund the Xbox port and you might squeeze a few more sales. Anything else is Delusion 101.
That’s exactly what Square is doing. FF7 Remake is not going to Xbox unless ms pays square for it. And the same will happen to every single AAA Square enix game. After all why would they port for freeif MS will pay them for it?
 

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These people are basically quoting what the stupid ones in resetera are saying. ABK will NOT stop making deals with Sony if the sale doesn’t happen. That’s delusion.
And why would they go after Sony? Sony isn’t doing anything market threatening. They won their marketshare by competence, not by making power moves.
Even Lulu in her recent interview basically says she knows that Sony is trying to do what's best for their business here and that there's no hard feelings. (though there probably are hard feelings)
 
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The fact that MS is at the point of threatening retaliation from leaking Sony documents and deals should tell us how dead this deal is. Complaining about Sony not answering the phone and the last of us being successful? That foss guy is the sleazy “lawyer” (he’s probably not even a lawyer) Microsoft paid to shill for them so they can leak how pissed they are without it being tied to them.
 

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Where it’s at.
The fact that MS is at the point of threatening retaliation from leaking Sony documents and deals should tell us how dead this deal is. Complaining about Sony not answering the phone and the last of us being successful? That foss guy is the sleazy “lawyer” (he’s probably not even a lawyer) Microsoft paid to shill for them so they can leak how pissed they are without it being tied to them.
Mueller is a lawyer, but he’s a shitbag. MS hired him to fight in favour of protecting their software patents in the early 2000s.
 

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You guys think the out of the blue announcement of a full fledged cod this year, after having said they were taking a year off, is because activision thought the deal would’ve closed by now and are scrambling behind the scenes to keep profits coming in?
 

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Where it’s at.
You guys think the out of the blue announcement of a full fledged cod this year, after having said they were taking a year off, is because activision thought the deal would’ve closed by now and are scrambling behind the scenes to keep profits coming in?
I think it was already in the works to be a surprise “bonus” for Game Pass once the deal closed.
 

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Good to see the judge ruled in favour of Sony on this matter. MS was asking for way too much information that had nothing to do with the acquisition. It came across as petty and overreaching so I can see why the term "harassment" was used.

Edit: Just looked at the article again and the mention of the judge ruling in Sony's favour has been removed. The matter is still ongoing.
 
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In response, Sony said that they hadn’t supplied all the information Microsoft were requesting because they were being asked for way too much, including things like access to internal performance reviews, something Sony say “is obvious harassment”, and that “even in employment cases courts require a specific showing of relevance before requiring production of personnel files.”
I don't understand a lot of it but it seems MS is trying to find a gotcha in Sony's documents which shouldn't be entertained.
Why should I disclose my deals and secrets because you're trying to make a shitty power move?