Those documents are old. Its from the investigation and findings phase. before the block. the deal will close. you're beating a dead horse.
Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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We will know about it this week. The only report we have is from CNBC. Did Bloomberg or MLEX reported on it or was it just CNBC? Either way we all will know tommrow or this week?
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CMA originally was going to block it on console concerns and did a complete 180 on their decision.
So even though it's in the documents, it's not unusual that they will do it again and accept a small concession.
So then the CMA wanted Activision divested to approve the deal, they don't so they block it, then accepts a presumably smaller divestment and approves it. What is the rationale for this alleged sequence of events? The prior documentation (which I should point out you stated did not exist and the CMA did not ever offer) highlights their thinking, which has a lot more weight towards how a $70 billion dollar acquisition is going to be approved than "the CMA is talking with Microsoft, so it is being approved."
Those old remedies might not even be enough then if the CMA has changed its rationale.
The same rationale for them to halt the CAT process and talk again. They had no reason in the world to do that. Nothing big will be divested. Bobby and Brad had already said that's not happening nor is it reasonable. They already said that to the CMA months ago. If that was the only way for the deal to get done, they wouldn't be talking again. it would be headed to the CAT.
All the regulators that have walked this through couldn't say a word against it without it becoming blatantly obvious they were in Microsofts pocket
EU can't say shit after allowing Microsoft to buy zenimax & now ABK with no conditions
The FTC is 100 percent guaranteed to appeal, because of politics.
Yeah it even sounds like they might still go ahead with the August trial, which would be...surprising, considering they wouldn't be able to block even if they did win.
If they appeal then they'll put the most incompetent lawyers on the team. I have 0 faith in the Biden admin to do the right thing.
Its not the Biden admin who choses lawyers, its the FTC head, who he appointed. And she can't do worse than the Trump guy who bungled the Disney case.
The FTC head is a Biden appointee. Like, how do you fumble this case so bad? They should have asked for a recusal as soon as the judge disclosed she had family working for Microsoft.
They were never offering 10 years for playstation we've already seen Phil's email to Jim he said through to December 31st 2027 , given the fact he also said he doesn't expect the next console generation till 2028 the writing is on the wall.. sell games on playstation 5 because it's outsold Xbox series consoles then as soon as next gen releases everything is Xbox exclusive so playstation sales tank
It's silly how bad of a job the ftc did in court, if they try to appeal they better get better lawyers. I dont know how the biggest software pub gets bought by a hardware developer that competes with other other hardware developers for the same games library and somehow it gets pass regulators and the judicial system. That's how bad of a job the ftc done.