The Activision Blizzard deal will still go through.

04-29-2023, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted By akferd⏩

It was already mentioned above, but Microcel creating these monopolies is not good for anyone. They can't do anything right even with all the financial resources and advantages. All they will do is destroy those developers and their massive franchises.

You XBots should be glad they arent being allowed to destroy modern vidya games by being petty. The largest software company on planet Earth can't compete with a Video Game company that has no prior history with software. Microcel sucks, that's why their losing. Now they want to buy a spot at the top, even if it destroys the future of video games. Sore losers like so many of their followers. SAD!

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04-30-2023, 03:24 AM

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Originally Posted By Kraken⏩

Blizzard has turned in to a chit company. Surrounded in scandals and extremist content on their games, they will destroy the company. Their major money grabs recently are making people turn away.

This merge was for survival for the tech market crash.

Dragonflight is actually good after the two horrible schitshows.
Diablo 4 is shaping up to be great.
Diablo Immortal is a shameless cash grab but it's still printing money for them.
And I have no idea what's going on with Overwatch 2.

Bobby and Actiblizz are terrible but they won't be going down anytime soon.

04-30-2023, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted By havoc00⏩

I just wanted the deal to go through so we would have all the classic cods on GP with anti cheat and maybe better handling of the franchise, other than that wouldn't matter blizzard would put another game out for like 4-5 years

I could see the older Call of duty games being added to Game Pass/Steam, but beyond that they're not going to handle the franchise much differently because the status quo makes them money.

Current Call of Duty does everything Microsoft wanted Halo Infinite to do:

- Live Service
- Microtransactions out the ass
- Battle passes
- Battle Royale
= Constant engagement and money printer

The most MS would do is add a little lube, but they're still going to let COD continue to bend people over in perpetuity.

Originally Posted By BraneyGumble⏩

Dragonflight is actually good after the two horrible schitshows.
Diablo 4 is shaping up to be great.
Diablo Immortal is a shameless cash grab but it's still printing money for them.
And I have no idea what's going on with Overwatch 2.

Bobby and Actiblizz are terrible but they won't be going down anytime soon.

Yeah, they're still the 6th largest in market share in the video games industry.

There are a far more smaller companies that are orders of magnitude more vulnerable.

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04-30-2023, 05:46 AM

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Originally Posted By akferd⏩

It was already mentioned above, but Microcel creating these monopolies is not good for anyone. They can't do anything right even with all the financial resources and advantages. All they will do is destroy those developers and their massive franchises.

You XBots should be glad they arent being allowed to destroy modern vidya games by being petty. The largest software company on planet Earth can't compete with a Video Game company that has no prior history with software. Microcel sucks, that's why their losing. Now they want to buy a spot at the top, even if it destroys the future of video games. Sore losers like so many of their followers. SAD!

What monopoly does blocking this prevent?

05-01-2023, 02:53 AM

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Just dropped.

The CMA's final report exhaustively spells out the authority's reasoning for unexpectedly blocking Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard and is over 400 pages in length. Under section 11.26, the document reveals that the CMA's normal practice would be to block the merger for a period of ten years unless the circumstances changed somehow.

While it is unknown exactly how the circumstances around the deal would need to change for the CMA to reconsider its decision, this detail could mean that the Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard is now dead in the water. It is possible for Microsoft to appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in an effort to get the matter revisited, but this process can take months, and the matter would fall back into the hands of the CMA in the event that the appeal is successful.

https://gamerant.com/microsoft-acqui...ocked-10-years

It's over.

05-01-2023, 03:23 AM

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Originally Posted By bongowongo⏩

Imagine being retarded enough to think that MS will go to war with Great Britain over fukking xbox and activision blizzard lmfao.

Please stop posting, you're an utter embarrassment.

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05-10-2023, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted By Coal

Still in the denial stage huh?

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Fking retarded dipchits

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