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FTC says it will appeal to block Microsoft-Activision deal (www.cnbc.com)

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[-] 0U714W@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago

Remember when the government gave a shit about busting monopolies? That'd be cool to see happen again.

[-] MisterMoo@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Good. A Microsoft victory here will severely damage prospects for other antitrust actions and have a chilling effect on government oversight of mergers, which is already pretty thin.

[-] BarterClub@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

How many do you think are being paid?

[-] Vaggumon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

good luck.

[+] redditcunts@lemmy.world -19 points 1 year ago

Fuck the FTC. I'm tired of this shit. Just let this shit be done so I can get wow included in gamepass. Christ this is the dumbest shit ever.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Monopolies are not good for the consumer

[-] victron@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Right? I don't care that much, but I hate Sony's saltiness about the whole thing. Mfs want to be the only guest at the party.

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

After seeing how MS is handling Starfield I don't think they need to acquire more big studios. First they took away Playstation support, now they are taking a big payout from AMD to be the official GPU of Starfield, even though AMD has a ~15% market share: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Software-Survey-Welcome-to-Steam

And will Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 be any different?

IMO MS has one guy Phil Spencer that talks a good game, but the actions of MS are usually way different.

[-] KuroJ@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

I agree. This is going on way too long.

From what I understand of the merger it seems like it would benefit gamers as a whole. It seems initially the main reason to stop this was to block Microsoft from exclusive rights over Call of Duty, which doesn't seem what Microsoft is intending to do.

Microsoft has even agreed to bring call of duty to Sony's Playstation for 10 years, and also to bring call of duty to the Nintendo switch.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but I really don't see how this would hurt the gaming market, which is what is being argued here.

[-] QHC@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Microsoft could be lying, or could change their mind in the future.

[-] KuroJ@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/12/microsoft-activision-blizzard-deal-ftc-regulators

According to this article, Microsoft has agreed to sign a legally binding agreement with the FTC.

"Microsoft has said the deal would benefit gamers and gaming companies alike, and offered to sign a legally binding consent decree with the FTC to provide Call of Duty games to rivals including Sony for a decade."

Now for the future, that I couldn't tell you what Microsoft would do, but I believe the Microsoft of today is all about bringing these types of services and games to all. I think if they were to end support and only keep call of duty exclusive to Xbox it would actually do more harm to them than good.

[-] QHC@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That is good news. Thanks for clarifying (and for deservedly shaming me for not reading the article, haha).

[-] KuroJ@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Haha no worries! To be fair, my quote is from a different article.

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