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The Federal Trade Commission May File Antitrust Lawsuit to Block the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard D
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The Federal Trade Commission May File Antitrust Lawsuit to Block the Microsoft-Activision Blizzard Deal | MMORPG.com
Microsoft's nearly $69 billion dollar proposed acquisition of Activision Blizzard might be hitting a new snag. A federal antitrust lawsuit may be incoming, seeking to block the deal.
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That's why Tencent is allowed to freely buy game companies, but Microsoft is not.
Because Tencent falls below the umbrella of the CCP, CCP can pump unlimited money into TenCent to buy everything around the world. Especially government politicians that oversee such big company takeovers like the CCP money and are willing to look the other way to pass the deal. Actually you could even say it falls under national security such takeovers by Tencent because if the CCP calls for user information from western company's that TenCent owns, Tencent must obey to the CCP even if it means breaking the western laws.
Perhaps a little too much conspiracy there but one thing is clear, China has ensured their own companies have less hassle expanding into new markets and firming their position in their current holdings than the West does.
What is even more hilarious is, that even if Microsoft gets hold of ActiVision Blizzard, companies like EA and Ubisoft are still a way bigger player in the game market, with many more big franchises under their belt.
I mean, lets be honest here. What has ActiVision Blizzard to offer lately? Their only real big worthwhile franchise they have at the moment is Call of Duty. That's pretty much it.
Blizzard themselves aren't that much of a big deal anymore, now World of Warcraft's is long past it's prime.
btw tencent biggest owner is naspers, which is a south african company. it owns 30% of tencent where as the ceo of tencent only owns 7% of the shares. and also the south african government owns majority of naspers, basically they can control how tencent makes acquisition. and of course tencent also owns the majority of epic, which make ue 5. it's really a headache if you looks on how the corporate structure works lol.
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You need to understand that they didn't sell games. More than 60% of their revenue comes from micro-transaction and not the games itself lol.
And someone said that ea and Ubi are bigger player but IMO the 3 of them released shitty games for years. They still sells because people are dumb AF, but they are still shit.
On the subject of blocking the deal... I don't see it doing anything to benefit consumers one way or the other. Then again I guess the articlee never mentioned us... it only mentioned othber companies ability to soak money out of us being hindered. Monopolies were supposedly bad for consumers and now it's only about other companies in the market.
I guess that's a bit off the rails. I don't honestly care one way or the other. It will be interesting to see what happens after the deal or no dea... one way or the other.
That alone is reason for an antitrust lawsuit.
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In terms of consoles MS is far in the back of the pack.
Now obviously MS has an advantage in cloud gaming and game pass, but it's not like Sony and Nintendo are incapable of making offerings. And there is NO way that Call of Duty possibly going exclusive at some point is justification to kill the deal. Maybe Sony should make concessions to MS if they want CoD to not go exclusive.
I guess I'll have to search for a nice, concise explanation on the actual justification. Because I just don't see it.
Newest numbers are 26 million for PS5 and 18.2 million for XBox Series X/S. So Sony is ahead in sales, but not by that much.
Buy companies no one blinks an eye at or cares about but with a AAA budget can do some wonderous and amazing things (potentially of course). Even though Xbox didn't create Obsidian and Inexile because of there size I would bet in 10 years people will just refer to them as a true Xbox first party studio even if that's wrong.
Thats the studios they should get behind. My money has always been on the fact that Obsidian and Inexile are going to become the Insomniac of the Xbox studios. People are sleeping on them.
Just to name a few companies:
11 bit studios
Frogwares
Larian Studios
Spiderweb Software (This one is out there but they make some great RPGS if the small team behind these games are up for a bigger budget and a bigger team. Give it to him. They use the world of Avernum in a Skyrim like sytle or even do a Wasteland 3 style.
Supergiant Games
Red Hook Studios
They could buy all these studious and still have enough left over, if the deal falls through, to greenlight various games from them
Competition is supposed to be about who makes their console/OS/store/gamepass/cloud services better, not about buying up major game devs so that you can make those devs drop support to your competitors.
EDIT: For example buying Call of Duty so that they can make it XBox exclusive would not make XBox better. It would make Playstation worse.
If I was Blizzard and Microsoft, that is the investigation I would be doing right now to create a character analysis of what FTC involement with FTX who was dumping millions into campaigns and then vanish after 2022 elections along with billions of dollars. Why does the FTC even exist ? would be the real question at such a trial.
The other option for Miocrosft and activision, move all business to a non governed country and do the deal there, worked for FTX...
Do you work for FTX ?