Once abk goes through I’ll be interested i starcraft and other rts games get an xbox port. Another cool one would be a mashup of halo and starcraft
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It would be a dream to see blizzard exploring more ideas like the cancelled starcraft ghost or the starcraft battlefield
I don’t think any of those games get ports unless they make a new one, which hopefully they will.
Agreed. It’s sad that when you compare the FTC, CMA and the rest of the western world come out looking like dummies. As for the COD argument they use it cos it’s what Sony has provided as their counter argument. Blizzard games are mainly PC and the ones that have hit consoles are spaced by long years that they end up not mattering. Activision pretty much has become a COD factory focusing all their studios on COD and King is just mobile. So the only thing they can consider for Sony is COD. Without COD there is no Sony argument the scrutiny would be more focused on Cloud and the model not content.
I think it was Jason Schrier who first talked about the new survival game blizzard are working on. The rumor is a lot of staff have now moved onto it and the game is looking promising based on internal testing
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Good article on the Axon Supreme Court hearing that could impact the case. The article offers up opinions from 3 lawyers on their thoughts on the outcome of the case. The third opinion would be the best case scenario, but I think all three cases leave the door available for Microsoft to use:
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Looks like that lawsuit against the ABK acquisition from those ten gamers didn’t succeed! Ill share Destin’s video on it!
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These “gamers” take fanboyism to new heights. In the documentation I believe that most of them said they don’t own an Xbox or use the Xbox ecosystem. Paying 10K to go to bat for a money-hungry corporation that doesn’t care about you with frivolous arguments only to inevitably lose to multi-million dollar lawyers is just wasting everybody’s time, which is probably the point.
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This likely isn’t a situation where gamers found some lawyers to sue MS, this is more like a situation where lawyers looking for a payout found some gamers to put their names down for a lawsuit. So like “Have you been wronged by the potential loss of ATVI games? Call Dewey, Chetum, and Howe today! You may be entitled to a substantial payout!”
Basically some lawyers looking for a settlement for a quick payout and some random people put their names on it will get a small check for doing nothing if it works, if not nothing lost.
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Not sure if this is the same as the statement of objective that we already knew was coming?
Edit, it probably goes with this:
This is the expected part, the objections which will be answered with the remedies.
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I don’t think MS has formally offered concessions for them yet so I think this is basically just them saying it’s not going through without them which is what everyone expected
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This isn’t really anything new. Per Idas:
More or less what we knew:
- Statement of Objections coming in late January or even early February
- There are informal talks about concessions
- But no formal talks until the SO is ready
So, provisional findings from the CMA and the SO from the EC will arrive almost at the same time.
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It seems the case of we knew it was coming and now, it’s here.
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Yeah and the media wants to make it a bigger deal than it is.
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At this point it doesn’t matter how the deal is perceived in the eye of media
All that matters is that the deal goes through at the end
After that, whatever articles are written about this deal are simply free marketing
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Wait wait wait so your telling me Microsoft will wait until someone finds and describes an area of concern before giving formal written concessions. I’m shocked I tell ya, well not really it makes perfect sense.
I wouldn’t give someone my car until they paid me for it……or would I 
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Microsoft earnings is next week on 24th. It should be interesting now that it will be the 1st anniversary since the announcement of acquisition.
Good thing is the EC is still open to a court system unlike the CMA. I honestly think the CMA’s decision is the most crucial cos it’s really hard to fight.
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