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Microsoft / Activision Deal Approval Watch |OT| (MS/ABK close)

Do you believe the deal will be approved?


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Topher

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Mate, british people arent bright (no offense guys). They are like mini americans.

Dude....
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Riky

$MSFT
Mate, british people arent bright (no offense guys). They are like mini americans.

CMA wont get pressured by that, because they are seperate entity. The goverment cant intervene their decision other than CAT. And EU decision means nothing to them, as Xbox is big in UK, compared to EU.

It will all come down to how good that Arsenal fan lawyer is. (I still cant believe he is representing Mancity, even though he is an arsenal fan).

Start with a bit of discrimination eh?

The vast majority of the British public know very little if anything about this deal or probably care. But for The Times to be talking about it then its a political issue with its own circle of discussion.

The EU decision in particular does matter as its now tied up with the brexit debate here and how we seem to have more red tape than the EU we left because of red tape.

If the CAT send this back to the CMA then this will have some impact when looked at again.
 

GHG

Member
I wouldn't say "mini-Americans", but there are certainly plenty of wannabe Americans.

Jez Corden and Jim Sterling are amongst our finest exports, our Riky Riky here is looking to follow in their footsteps.
 

feynoob

Member
The EU decision in particular does matter as its now tied up with the brexit debate here and how we seem to have more red tape than the EU we left because of red tape.
It doesnt, as EU expressed cloud concern on their report. They agree with the CMA. But because of Xbox position in their territory, they couldnt make the same decision as the cma.
If the CAT send this back to the CMA then this will have some impact when looked at again.
CMA will reach the same conclusion. MS needs to change their remedy, and that is to overcome the divesment requirement.
 

Riky

$MSFT
It doesnt, as EU expressed cloud concern on their report. They agree with the CMA. But because of Xbox position in their territory, they couldnt make the same decision as the cma.

I went through this earlier in a longer post, the console part of the deal is irrelevant now, the block is on cloud gaming, which doesn't need a console.
 

feynoob

Member
I went through this earlier in a longer post, the console part of the deal is irrelevant now, the block is on cloud gaming, which doesn't need a console.
Which MS has major market share.
As long as Xcloud is tied to gamepass ultimate, they are the market leader because of that.

Which is why CMA blocked this deal. MS would control the cloud market if they acquire activision.
 
Mate, british people arent bright (no offense guys). They are like mini americans.

CMA wont get pressured by that, because they are seperate entity. The goverment cant intervene their decision other than CAT. And EU decision means nothing to them, as Xbox is big in UK, compared to EU.

It will all come down to how good that Arsenal fan lawyer is. (I still cant believe he is representing Mancity, even though he is an arsenal fan).

Mini Americans?

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Riky

$MSFT
Which MS has major market share.
As long as Xcloud is tied to gamepass ultimate, they are the market leader because of that.

Which is why CMA blocked this deal. MS would control the cloud market if they acquire activision.

Market share of consoles is irrelevant, if Xbox didn't have cloud gaming then this would now be passed by the CMA.
The figures on the percentage of Gamepass owners who have Ultimate, then those of them that use Xcloud over installing on console and PC are more relevant as I went through earlier.
 

feynoob

Member
It wasn’t a dream. Look at us now! Sticking our fingers up at American corporations and the EU bodies, this is what Britain is all about.
Still, that guy fleeced you guys so hard, like how a certain person fleeced us too in 2016.
At least, you guys have the power to stick MF to us and EU.
Market share of consoles is irrelevant, if Xbox didn't have cloud gaming then this would now be passed by the CMA.
The figures on the percentage of Gamepass owners who have Ultimate, then those of them that use Xcloud over installing on console and PC are more relevant as I went through earlier.
If you have GP ultimate, you are an xcloud user period. There is no this or that.

American Girls >>>> British girls imho.

In terms of looks that is.

But European girls >>> everything.
Internet doesnt lie.
 

Riky

$MSFT
If you have GP ultimate, you are an xcloud user period. There is no this or that.
Factually incorrect, some countries like Chile you can have GPU but they don't support Xcloud.
In this country I think MS can prove that the actual number of cloud gaming users is not comparable to actual Gamepass Ultimate subscribers, as people subscribe to that for Gold as well as downloads sales and perks.
 

BlueLyria

Member
Guys I was thinking for a bit, what happened to Lulu? She was on the forefront of the deal, having tweets posted every week or so, but since the block it seems she just vanished from the public eye
 

feynoob

Member
Factually incorrect, some countries like Chile you can have GPU but they don't support Xcloud.
In this country I think MS can prove that the actual number of cloud gaming users is not comparable to actual Gamepass Ultimate subscribers, as people subscribe to that for Gold as well as downloads sales and perks.
We are talking about UK here. No one cares about outside UK.
 

Banjo64

cumsessed
Factually incorrect, some countries like Chile you can have GPU but they don't support Xcloud.
In this country I think MS can prove that the actual number of cloud gaming users is not comparable to actual Gamepass Ultimate subscribers, as people subscribe to that for Gold as well as downloads sales and perks.
The CMA used MAU figures alongside additional internal information and insight from industry analysts. It’s in their published report.
 
Nvidia has spoken up in support of Microsoft following the recent news that the UK's Competition & Markets Authority is moving to block the sale of Activision Blizzard to the Xbox company.
Lol yes they did that *AFTER* they spoke against the deal along with Sony and Google, do your homework amigo. Here's another pro tip: Microsoft spoke against Nvidias acquisition of Arm despite Nvidia and Microsoft being business partners for ages. The world isn't as simple as you want to make it seem.
 

Bernoulli

M2 slut
I'm English, I understand it perfectly.

This was a podcast originally so the views on YouTube is pretty irrelevant, point is the rejection of the deal has got wrapped up with Brexit and is not just in the mind of "Xbox Famboys" at all and I've provided proof.
that's the actual original podcast
youtube has a new part called youtube Podcast and if you search it on youtube it looks like that, the views are the listeners

if you check the channel alot of these podcast/videos have 60K views in just 2 days some even have 150k + views in just 2 days

the ABK COD video is irrelevant because the public doesn't care about the subject nothing more
 

Edmund

Member
Guys. I know we're not allowed to talk about that big headed guy anymore, but he just quoted the bible in his latest tweet with regards to the ABK acquisition.

Ezekial 25:17 to be exact. Just go have a look at his twitter lmao. He's beyond mental.
 

feynoob

Member
Never type this word " Gone wild Country name" on reddit.
 
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GHG

Member
You ain't lying my man. We have excellent scenery down south. DeepEnigma DeepEnigma and HoofHearted HoofHearted can attest.

Praise the sun, literally.

When you live in or move to a warmer climate the first thing you notice is that everyone makes so much more effort to stay in shape and keep looking good.

To go to the beach every weekend looking like a whale (and make no effort to change it (!!!)) you have to have no shame.

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