Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard King for $69 Billion on 2023-10-13
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No they are going to sue anyway. The FTC can't really do anything but sue. Then it will go to court and the FTC will have to prove that MS made promises that it didn't keep or aren't in the process of keeping. LIke others have said in this thread there are no public statments that MS will keep all Zenimax/bethesda games on other platforms. Just like there is no promise here to keep any activision game on the platform. Ms has only said they intend to. At the end of the day MS doesn't own Playstation and can't release any game they want on playstation. They have to enter contract negotiations with sony and come to an agreement and then release the game. So MS would never promise to do something that relies on another party
How do you block mergers after the deal closes?
You try and make MS sell some or all of the company they bought like the UK or EU did to Meta with regards to gify
LIkely they will want MS to spin off the Call of duty studios or sell them off.
How do you block mergers after the deal closes?
Rather painfully, especially since several election cycles and employee personnel will likely change several times over. It probably involves a lawsuit.
It really depends on who gets voted in. if we get another 4 years of Joe and the feels over the law folk then we will have to hope the courts stay sane. If the republicans come into the power they will likely be upset that microsoft donated more to the democrats than to them and MS will either pony up to political campaigns or the republicans will saber rattle. But since this is a biden admin thing I am sure they will quickly drop it cause it was started by the other guys
The FTC wont win so it doesn't really matter to MS
It's not just the FTC and the US court that they have to worry about ...
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The deal will probably still go through as the FTC have in recent memory been a paper tiger.
But I will continue to say that I don't support major corporate consolidation of any kind. So I still don't support this kind of deal anywhere, gaming industry included.
If you wanna make exclusive games with different pubs that's fine. If you wanna make timed exclusives that's fine, every company does that, it's the status quo. If you wanna buy studios, that's also fine.
But buying entire publishers and locking down their content and studios to your ecosystem simply on the grounds of having the money, it doesn't lead to anything good for the industry.
The fact this has become a silly political football to done on the grounds of gaming wars is ridiculous quite frankly
But I will continue to say that I don't support major corporate consolidation of any kind. So I still don't support this kind of deal anywhere, gaming industry included.
If you wanna make exclusive games with different pubs that's fine. If you wanna make timed exclusives that's fine, every company does that, it's the status quo. If you wanna buy studios, that's also fine.
But buying entire publishers and locking down their content and studios to your ecosystem simply on the grounds of having the money, it doesn't lead to anything good for the industry.
The fact this has become a silly political football to done on the grounds of gaming wars is ridiculous quite frankly
From my understanding based on quick listen of hoeglaw this actually makes it more awkward for MS.
If FTC actually tried to out right block would go to court and would make it easier for MS to put it to judge.
This way it basically ties it up in red tape.
(my interpretation of what he's said)
So who knows how this pans out and how long it will take etc at mo.
Inuhanyou
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Unfortunately unions don't really mean much as there is barely a union force in the US. Tons of companies just fired tens of thousands of workers at once, hell Elon just laid off majority of Twitter workforce and it doesn't really mean a thing as far as company wide consequences. The more powerful an entity you are the less accountability you need to have.
So as far as MS is concerned, what they say right now absolutely doesn't matter to what they do when the ink is dry.
I don't think they really have to worry about anything. The CMA was public about their thoughts and are getting shown to be clowns every step of the way. Sony is getting shown as being clowns also. The EU is being silent but t
People have limited memories or purposely forget things. The democrats dusted off one of the most racist members of congress of the mid to late 1900s and reimagined him as a beacon of diversity dispite him voting against gay marraige , voting for redlining and writing the 96 crime bill that decimated minority families. he also campaigned with former klan members to boot in previous elections. Then they are trying to act like congress and him forcing rail workers to take a package with zero sick days.... zero sick days as some huge moment for unions.
it's laughable how bad the messaging is but hey their base is eating it up and as long as they keep getting reelected is all that matters to them
No. See previous post. Nothing they did today blocks the deal in the US.
Not to get political, but I really don't get why some think it's great to keep shooting themselves in the foot when it comes with actually improving US companies. They're so dead set in ideology that they would rather have far worse practical realities.
It's too late to make amends, they should've known better than to dismantle the last administration so even the courts might get political too now ...
If you get paid to hit nails with a hammer what do you do when there are no more nails to hit ? That is why you always have to insure the issue exists so that you can claim you will come in and fix it.
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