Of course Firewalk and Haven are AAA. Fact that they are making live service game does not mean they are AA.
And who with a brain want Microsoft monopolizing game industry? That is the real question.
Fantards, shills and MS themselves.
By this logic, Microsoft is going to exit the Cloud market as well, as Azure is not the market leader nor does it have any hope to monopolize the market. Which is of course nonsense.
Nope. Just Tom Warren recycling June news to damage control other unrelated (to this current situation) emails leaking today.
CMA isn’t planning on finishing phase one of their review until the same day MS’s current agreement with Activision expires. October 18.
So are they gonna have to agree to extend again? More money etc?? Does this kill it etc?
Depends if the CMA pass in phase one without deferring to a phase two investigation.
Yea im totally out of the loop, so this could pass in phase one? And then its done? or does it go froward but with confidence? if it goes to phase two are we back to waiting for months again and a possible bad outcome for MS?
That is from way back in 2021. They've changed this time. Scouts honour.
At that point if the CMA say they've blocked the deal, I think ATVI are free to cut and run $4.5b , even if Microsoft wanted to continue with an appeal, I think they can refuse, whereas a phase 2 places obligations on ATVI to make good on them helping the deal pass with regulators, and I believe that was why Microsoft had to cancel the JR appeal in the UK because ATVI would have been allowed to walk without consideration of Microsoft's position, and would have.
I guess MS and Activision will need to plan ahead this time.
We can only speculate.
Yeah, just my opinion though.
I dont see why ABK would, they are in a way better spot than they were when this deal first started, Bobby seems to be safe etc....
I honestly feel like Bobby legit wants to retire and enjoy his golden years and this MS acquisition was going to be his swan song and golden parachute. He wants it to close for this reason alone, he doesn't give the tiniest shit about MS or ABK.
The deal is the reason ABK's buck is up like it is. If it falls through their share price will almost certainly fall as folks rush to be first to sell what they thought was going to be a guaranteed return so they can retain as much value of their investment as possible. The breakup fee isn't going to be enough to protect the share price.
??? Those documents were already in the hands of both... There is NOTHING in them that the FTC-CMA could use as an argument to convince a court that MS's acquisition of ABK irreparably harms the consumer or other industry participants.
Naaah, Probably we won't have news before october
Was just thinking the same thing. It's not like the public haven't already voted with their wallets two gens in a row now.
The docs were uploaded on 8/14.
Those documents are the same ones that MS provided to the FTC in lower courts. Now the process would move to a higher one after the IP.
LOL. good luck trying to convince a judge deciding on ABK adquisition being a irreparable harm to consumers and other market participants that an impossible wish (buying NUN) of P. Spencer, that has not been given, can be a valid argument.
Microsoft has more money than God, they have never needed to regret anything ever. Even the legendary antitrust trial of the 1990's was just a bump in the road for them. When you are the 2nd largest company on Earth by market cap, the only regrets that can be had are from MS competitors who have been crushed or acquired over the years.
If the purchase is finally closed, they will celebrate it with great enthusiasm and as a success. But I have no doubt that if before the proposed ABK acquisition MS Knew all the obstacles, deadlines, leaks, cost and the exposure to which their leaders have been subjected... I think P. Spencer would have thought 100 times to take the step and propose to Nadella the purchase of ABK.
Given the lead-time required for console hardware releases, I doubt much of the big-ticket items have changed, frankly. Specific dates might shift, but they're not whipping up brand new hardware plans eighteen months out. Running damage control right now is pointless; the breadth of information that just got dumped in going to take days to read through. Today, Microsoft should just hold the L and take it on the chin. I imagine there's a paralegal somewhere in a meeting room in the bowls of some Microsoft building about to be disappeared for uploading the wrong files.
I do want healthy competition, that’s why I want Microsoft out of the industry.
Thats a fantasy, just like Microsoft buying Nintendo
