akaFullmetal
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That's fine, the biggest 3rd party company, can stay 3rd party. No one has lost or gain anything.
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Microsoft / Activision deal prevented to protect innovation and choice in cloud gaming
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DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
What? lol
hepfom
Member
If Microsoft stuck to buying small studios, then they would've been ok.
GHG
Member
It never was.
lh032
I cry about Xbox and hate PlayStation.
Hitchyhero
Banned
Luigi Mario
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Banjo64
cumsessed
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
REE in shellshock right now 
The Ree mods that bought Act/Blizz shares are in bits.
1. They'll make a further dumb decision by not immediately abandoning this acquisition and try a doomed appeal (don't forget the EC and FTC each can kill it on their own too). This will drag this process out for several more months
2. Any attempts at large takeover's on the scale you mentioned would meet the exact same fate.
The Ree mods that bought Act/Blizz shares are in bits.1. They'll make a further dumb decision by not immediately abandoning this acquisition and try a doomed appeal (don't forget the EC and FTC each can kill it on their own too). This will drag this process out for several more months
2. Any attempts at large takeover's on the scale you mentioned would meet the exact same fate.
GHG
Member
Banjo64
cumsessed
Punished Miku
Gold Member
Baffling decision. I'm just floored at how ridiculous some of these agencies are.
Skifi28
Member
Can somebody kindly check on Colt in these trying times?
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diffusionx
Gold Member
I guess the CMA saw through their stupid deals about COD on switch, lol. MS would be foolish to waste one more second on this acquisition, just walk away. This shit happens, sometimes you win sometimes you lose.
Also: cloud gaming kills again LOL
Also: cloud gaming kills again LOL
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F0rneus
Tears in the rain
They will get CMA'ed again if they try lol. And as far as I know the CMA has never reversed a decision except for a couple cases.
Anyway, MS all you need to do now is work on making your games better and bring back classics from your catalogue. You have Viva Pinata right there. State of Decay, Killer Instinct (the last one was perfect IMO), Crackdown. Why did Halo and Crackdown fell on their faces? Cause they were terrible! Make. Good. Games. And make sure that Perfect Dark is on point!
zomboden
Banned
Yep. Definitely just pay the 2.5Bil and drop out of this deal. No sense in sucking up time, and resources for the next year or two. Would slow momentum of the brand down even more than it already is.
Just focus on something else. Buy somebody else(smaller), expand studios, do something else.
Buy exclusivity third party deals, etc, etc.
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Sanepar
Member
Yeah man small studios and biggest publisher, same thing... MS bought 15 studios last 7 years.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Time to actually pay for Diablo
TheAmazingSpiderMan
Member
But but.. the experts at Gaf said it will go through 
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FrankWza
Member
He's an influencer. No way he's up at 8 am
Unknown Soldier
Member
Pedro Motta
Member
Oh snap.
BaneIsPain
Member
laugh in jim ryan.gif
zomboden
Banned
Yeah unfortunately. And even if it did come to game pass I still probably would have bought the Ultimate Edition for the 4 days early access anyways. 4 days is a long time during a games launch.Time to actually pay for Diablo
Hitchyhero
Banned
Clearly a ton of fanboys here that didn't want it to go through because it wasn't their platform of choice.
The decision is quite baffling tbh, based on their ACTUAL written reasoning (cloud gaming). The deal not going ahead means the game is not available for cloud streaming at all, whereas if it did go through it would be available on all browsers, Xbox, playstation, mobile and just about every other.
So instead of it being on the most widely available platforms for cloud. It's now on none. It honestly seems like CMA don't really understand what they are regulating here.
The decision is quite baffling tbh, based on their ACTUAL written reasoning (cloud gaming). The deal not going ahead means the game is not available for cloud streaming at all, whereas if it did go through it would be available on all browsers, Xbox, playstation, mobile and just about every other.
So instead of it being on the most widely available platforms for cloud. It's now on none. It honestly seems like CMA don't really understand what they are regulating here.
TrebleShot
Member
It’s an intelligent move by the CMA If you read the reasoning.
They are essentially trying to protect the competition before the market explodes in cloud gaming.
It’s coming, of course people arent happy on here about cloud gaming but once it sets off and gets going we certainly do not want MS dictating how that will go the same for any large corporation.
This isn’t about the IP itself but the ability to set off a new industry where no one can provide a viable alt.
Impressive if it’s been thought through and it seemingly has.
Sony getting COD has nothing to do with this ruling.
They are essentially trying to protect the competition before the market explodes in cloud gaming.
It’s coming, of course people arent happy on here about cloud gaming but once it sets off and gets going we certainly do not want MS dictating how that will go the same for any large corporation.
This isn’t about the IP itself but the ability to set off a new industry where no one can provide a viable alt.
Impressive if it’s been thought through and it seemingly has.
Sony getting COD has nothing to do with this ruling.
MisterXDTV
Member
Funny like until yesterday CMA was an expert in the field...
Now that they blocked it, they are incompetent again...
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH
diffusionx
Gold Member
it's not about one game or another game. It's about control of the entire market. If MS is essentially allowed to hoard every popular game then nobody else ever has a chance of breaking in.
I personally think cloud gaming is stupid and will never be a thing, but you know, the Xbox fans keep claiming it's the future...
TrebleShot
Member
*Only available if you buy their subscription service - thats the issue.
zomboden
Banned
All ABK/Xbox games were going to be available on Geforce Now. CoD, maybe even World of Warcraft. Activision isn't interested in cloud gaming so now none of their games will be on cloud devices. Literally making decisions for the worst. Xbox wanted to push cloud gaming. Activision didn't. They were going to make Activision put their games on Xcloud and other cloud services. Now it's not happening. Good job guys!
digoutyoursoul
Member
Just waiting for this farce to end so they can actually focus on the fucking games
Punished Miku
Gold Member
They've always been ridiculous throughout this whole thing. They were slightly less ridiculous when they acknowledged their math errors. Now back to full ridiculous.
RoboFu
One of the green rats
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Snake29
RSI Employee of the Year
Hitchyhero
Banned
Where can you stream now it's not their subscription service? What future cloud gaming service is it going to appear on?
DForce
NaughtyDog Defense Force
The deal getting blocked benefits gamers in general.
Why do Xbox fans want this deal to go through? Because it's going to be on Game Pass? No, the fanboys simply wanted bragging rights.
I said from the beginning that I don't want either Sony or Microsoft going after major publishers. Keep the major publishers third party. Microsoft doesn't need Acitivison to compete, they need better management.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
I dunno abawt that dawg! Just messing with ya!
Anyway MS already got the Elder Scrolls on lock. And Starfield. That's good enough to carry them very far.
The experts everywhere said it would go through, hence all the shock. Like it was widely believed after the last CMA report that there’d be just concessions and that’s it.But but.. the experts at Gaf said it will go through
I can take the L on being wrong lol I’m an adult but most people genuinely believed this was going through.
GHG
Member
The only thing ridiculous was people thinking this deal would go through without any problems.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I agree with that and the tits on your avatar GOD BLESS THE JEWNITED STATE TONY MONTANA EDITION
BadBurger
Is 'That Pure Potato'
Especially since Xbox would partially find themselves in such a position merely because their parent company had the money to acquire the largest, most successful third party studios.
I've barely been following this entire story, but reading the CMA's decision I found it hard to disagree with them.
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