Microsoft's acquisition of Activison Blizzard
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It is a huge risk to fund a brand new studio with no IP. It will be hard to attract talent to it as well. But if PS can bet on Deviation, Firewalk and Haven. then they should bet on him as well
It's not a huge risk, they just funded Haven and Firewalk. Dan Houser might not be as pretty but he founded created R* and wrote RDR2.
Yeah, Microsoft's arguments in favour of the cloud deals being a remedy are sophomoric.
"See? Even our (non-competitor, BYOG vs B2P) competitors accepted them. They have to be good for the market!"
I wonder if they actually stack up in some jurisdictions from a legal standpoint, because they don't pass any common sense checks and the CMA didn't fall for them at all.
Explain what Jimbo screwed about this deal. Mind you that regulators are fighting against this merge and Microsoft, not Jimbo. Mind you that regulators or judges are up to decide will this deal go through or not, not Jimbo himself. He can just sit an watch.
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I really don't know how anyone can say "jimbo's bet on regulators was wrong". What, he should bet on some seer who said "deal will fail!" ?
Btw. Merge still can fail
It can fail but it's pretty much a 99% chance it won't now. With Playstation signing to continue having CoD on their system the CMA can't fight this anymore even if they threw out the console situation first.
Enough already. Explain what's changed from the point at which this was 100% blocked in April to now to make it 99% in favour of the deal. Remember that it all comes down to the CMA. A win in any other jurisdiction means nothing for MS' chances in the UK.
You should know by now that it’ll never be enough until they buy everything and is the only player in the market. I’ve been saying this for years. It’s what MS wants.
if it's a Square Enix acquisition, does it really benefit Sony? I don't see anything other than they just fully own them now.
I dont know what it is!
All im saying is this person is as reliable as a u.s dollar and the fact that they put “x” in the tweet means its some sort of merger cause Sony use the same “x” for their merger announcement.
we will see, dont get too excited tho.
It does benefit them of course. They will now have japanese publisher something they actually lack.... Japanese devs / talent
It'd be something if it's true, we should be able to find out sometime within the next 24 hours because an announcement would have to be made officially.
Do you know if it's possible the CMA issues a derogation and MS can close the deal if they keep Activision separate until they get the CMA final decision?
I believe they could, yes. It would go against what they said last week, which was that the block stood until they could review the new submission from Microsoft on why the proposed order to block shouldn't stand because of "material changes or special circumstances". That has a deadline of 29th August, unrelated to the self imposed MS ABK deadline. It looks more like MS flailing about and flinging shit at the wall in the hopes something sticks.
What I take issue with is the insinuation that this is to speed along the deal for Microsoft's sake. July 18th is the deadline for the CMA's final order, so the case management meeting happening after the FTC failed in court and before the CMA deadline makes sense if the CMA is to consider Microsoft's submission and allow MS to withdraw from the CAT appeal they were sure to lose had MS not weaseled in a new deal structure or whatever their submission has proposed. They legally have to consider the submission, but wouldn't have needed to if the FTC won and MS/ABK stuck to their word and withdrew.
Outlets are still spreading lies that the CMA considering this new deal structure is a response to the FTC verdict. The possibility has been in their timelines since the notice and the proposed order was released, and they revealed MS submitted a response before the June 19th deadline. First we're hearing of this afaik and it's from the CMA.
Well, the meltdowns would be enough for me.