From what Ive researched MS wanted to put Word on Mac, no one forced them to.
Hell no forced MS to bail Apple out in the 90s either but they did so because they wanted to
Just like Id put money on the idea that MS made a 3 year offer with Sony as a good faith gesture and to appease regulators.
But didnāt the put the first version of Word on Mac in 1985? Windows was not out until 1990.
If theres a concession regarding CoD ā¦well Microsoft has already offered one. 3/5 years of further support ā¦that way no governing body will dictate longer.
Yep. This is like a guy telling the policeā¦āI wont assassinate my mortal enemy for 3 weeks, and heres the contract to prove itā
After those 3 weeks thoā¦
One thing is for sure, MS will put COD on Playstation after 2027ā¦if it makes financial sense for them and if the market favors COD being multiplat
If it doesnt tho
Thats the issue with some of these arguments, theyre framed as if Sony is entitled to something when they arent, they arent entitled to COD or Azure or anything MS owns
I actually saw a take that EU might ask Microsot to spin off Azure 
Idas has a good breakdown of why the EU is looking at cloud and also points out arguments MS can make if its a concern.
Definitely worth a read.
"Arguments that could be used in the case:
I saw that, it was worse since they were asking if people thought MS would spin off Azure to get the deal over the lineā¦
The only 2 that have issues with the deal are
Sony - The market leader in games
Google - The market leader in cloud
Funny that
Google is 3rd place in cloud, behind MS.
Also, Amazon is comfortably ahead of MS as well.
If it falls through time to buy wbd and own dc 
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But it wonāt fall through.
Thatās why no deal should spell anything out to go to Playstation or Sony. If there is a concession it should be to put COD on competitors that make up some X percent of the market. Shouldnāt matter if itās Sony, Nintendo, Luna (if it catches on), steam deck or whatever.
Funnily enough they implied something like this in their response to Jimbo, that it made no sense to remove COD from Playstation given its market position.
Is it possible as a concession MS needs to put Starfield onto Playstation, as a show of good faith for ABK deal?
Iām feeling like this deal might not go throughā¦
I agree, but they should get dc anyway 
Oh are they? Could have sworn I saw someone post something that said they were ahead in Cloud, maybe it was amazon then
lol no
Thatās not how these things work
and im not sure why youāre so worried, itās a 70b deal, itās going to be heavily scrutinised, it always was going to be but MS are
Very used to knowing how to play the game
Not a monopoly before or after this purchase and have many arguments they can make that objectively shows why the deal should go through
MS might have to make some concessions related to CoD or their cloud service at the most imo, otherwise I think it will go through no issue
No, and thereās no monopoly either, if CMA and others regulators block the deal, Microsoft will go to the court and win. If concessions are made, it will be around Azure cloud business. imo!
Absolutely not. They arenāt even offering any other ABK games. All thats on offer is Call of Duty for a very short period of time.
And theyāre only offering that because they know it will dominate on Gamepass.
The deal is going through. There wonāt be a concession to give an advantage to the current market leader. If anything, the regulators would want more competition for both Playstation and Xbox so if anything like that popped up I would expect it for newer entrants.
Something that I think people completely glossed over in thia news that the EU met with Jim Ryan is the fact that in the EUs atatement of the main focus areas, they left off the concerns that Sony has been repeating. To me that says that they heard Jim out and werent convinced those are the concern ateas of the deal.