Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard

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Few thoughts:
-This Stunt with nintendo signals microsft has no intention of abiding by the CMAs recommendations to divest cod.
-They already tried a 10 year stunt with nintendo and that didnt work before, and that was before google and nvidia were also against the deal.
 
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Puff said:


Lol That wasn't Sonys fault. Its Microsoft's fault they are in this position
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Xbox been in the game for 20 years and still dont know how to grow the customers that wants to willingly buy into your ecosystem. We're supposed to feel bad for them because of this? Nah last I check if you're not good at what you doing, graciously bow out and let real competitor enter the game.

Xbox is the Al bundy of the game industry. Always talking about the 4 touch downs they made in a single game years ago...But what have you done for your consumers lately?

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Doncortez77 said:
Xbox been in the game for 20 years and still dont know how to grow the customers that wants to willingly buy into your ecosystem. We're supposed to feel bad for them because of this? Nah last I check if you're not good at what you doing, graciously bow out and let real competitor enter the game.

Xbox is the Al bundy of the game industry. Always talking about the 4 touch downs they made in a single game years ago...But what have you done for your consumers lately?

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Except Xbox has done nothing but throw pick-6s for the last 22 years.
 
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That doesn’t really matter in the end, as they’ll have to abide by the strictest regulator at the end of the process.

If the EU are gullible twats again and accept this, but the CMA still wants structural remedies, they still have to go with the CMA’s remedies or the deal is dead.
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EU cannot be folled twice. Come on, I grew up on news upon news how EU was sanctioning MS over and over and calling them a monopoly.
Maybe that is why I do not trust Microsoft... quickly anyone here is a therapist? I wanna sue EU for
Puff said:


Lol That wasn't Sonys fault. Its Microsoft's fault they are in this position
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Lol twitter,

We Portuguese have a saying, It goes like this, “opinions are like a rectum, everyone has one!”

I think it’s self explanatory.
 
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I find your lack of faith disturbing
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Zeroing said:
EU cannot be folled twice. Come on, I grew up on news upon news how EU was sanctioning MS over and over and calling them a monopoly.
Maybe that is why I do not trust Microsoft... quickly anyone here is a therapist? I wanna sue EU for

Lol twitter,

We Portuguese have a saying, It goes like this, “opinions are like a rectum, everyone has one!”

I think it’s self explanatory.
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Boa tarde! Vamos tomar conta desta merda! Hahahaha
 
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Zeroing said:
EU cannot be folled twice. Come on, I grew up on news upon news how EU was sanctioning MS over and over and calling them a monopoly.
Maybe that is why I do not trust Microsoft... quickly anyone here is a therapist? I wanna sue EU for

Lol twitter,

We Portuguese have a saying, It goes like this, “opinions are like a rectum, everyone has one!”

I think it’s self explanatory.
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How ignorant do you have to be not to realize that’s also a common saying in English, and probably just about every other language?
 
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Take any of the paid MS "lawyers" and "pundits" saying this with a grain of salt. Jimbo and co. have been playing MS like a fiddle by not engaging in talks with them and it has worked masterfully so far, they have no reason and it's actually illogical that they would try to reach a deal with Microsoft when they are in the upper hand. Just more copium from the bloomberg corporate press.

The only thing MS lawyers have done well and I'm curious how they did it, is get all these labor unions around the world to cape for this agreement. MS is a trillion dollar company, unions have to be idiots to think that MS wouldn't be funding union busters in secret despite what ever lip service they're giving them.
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Funding? They've already kind of hired a union buster in Lulu Cheng Meservey. Granted she's an ABK lawyer, but she's been publicly arguing in favor of the deal and her anti-union antics with ABK have been known for a minute.

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No, a lot of the information we get about this deal comes from folks who really want it to go through.
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Apparently Poltz on GAF knows that one of the ResetERA staff own shares in ABK. I'm not even surprised.

They also thread-banned someone (probably others) in the ABK thread who was calling out certain negatives of MS/ABK's arguments. Reason was "trolling" 😂
 
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AshHunter216 said:
They're trying to reassure regulators that they will play nice with the IP if they're allowed to get it. Sketchy on whether it will work with the EU and doubtful it will convince the CMA.
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And it will fail, because it's a self-imposed behavioral remedy and if the CMA have already said this type of acquisition is beyond the scope of behavioral remedies, I strongly doubt the EC are going to go for those types of behavioral remedies, either.

I DO think both would maybe be good with behavioral remedies but ONLY if structural remedies are enacted, too; the structural remedies could possibly be more lenient though depending on how good the behavioral remedies are. But there's no path for this deal to get approved simply on behavioral remedies alone, IMHO.
 
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thicc_girls_are_teh_best said:
And it will fail, because it's a self-imposed behavioral remedy and if the CMA have already said this type of acquisition is beyond the scope of behavioral remedies, I strongly doubt the EC are going to go for those types of behavioral remedies, either.

I DO think both would maybe be good with behavioral remedies but ONLY if structural remedies are enacted, too; the structural remedies could possibly be more lenient though depending on how good the behavioral remedies are. But there's no path for this deal to get approved simply on behavioral remedies alone, IMHO.
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The CMA laid it out plainly, no behavioural remedies requiring ANY level of enforcement or monitoring would be considered acceptable, and that goes double for MS due to their ability to shrug off any penalty due to their wealth.

Structural remedies are the only thing that will make this deal pass, and all of those are too onerous for MS to keep the deal alive while accepting any of them.
 
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