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Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

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Re: Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

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Post by jxramos »

lesuorac wrote: post #4
darknavi wrote: post #2

Microsoft employee here, opinions my own. I work in gaming at Microsoft and I really enjoy it. I think Microsoft gives us a ton of space to explore and make our own impact and I am a huge fan* of Phil Spencer. > Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision has been described as the largest in tech history. It deserves scrutiny. That scrutiny has paid off: Microsoft has committed in writing, in public, and in court to keep C…

> How does this make anyone feel any better? What happens after 10 years? What happens in less than 10 years if they don't abide by it? Does Activision get split back out? I doubt it. We're long past the point where you can just set rules/laws and companies will abide by it. We need to be at the point where we also list the punishment ahead of time.

that's not a bad idea, laws without punishments are kind of ambiguous I suppose. I wonder the utility of leaving this open, is it tantamount to mandatory sentencing and takes freedom away from the judge or something like that.

Re: Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

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Post by re-thc »

lesuorac wrote: post #4
darknavi wrote: post #2

Microsoft employee here, opinions my own. I work in gaming at Microsoft and I really enjoy it. I think Microsoft gives us a ton of space to explore and make our own impact and I am a huge fan* of Phil Spencer. > Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision has been described as the largest in tech history. It deserves scrutiny. That scrutiny has paid off: Microsoft has committed in writing, in public, and in court to keep C…

> How does this make anyone feel any better? What happens after 10 years? What happens in less than 10 years if they don't abide by it? Does Activision get split back out? I doubt it. We're long past the point where you can just set rules/laws and companies will abide by it. We need to be at the point where we also list the punishment ahead of time.

> What happens in less than 10 years if they don't abide by it?

Likely nothing. I don't understand why people believe in these things.

> We're long past the point where you can just set rules/laws and companies will abide by it.

What's the rule / law here anyhow? There are always workarounds, e.g. it says it will keep it in parity with xbox... well what if they called a new console something else?

Re: Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

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Post by zamalek »

MikusR wrote: post #8

A snippet from the case "FTC: We've heard about the harms to Sony... Judge: This is about the harms to the consumer not to Sony. Let's take a break until 4:05."

Qualitatively, there are also more harms to the consumer by leaving Actiblizz in the incompetent hands of the current leadership.

I still wonder what all of this is worth given that the merger was blocked in the UK.

Re: Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

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Post by darknavi »

LocalH wrote: post #9
darknavi wrote: post #2

Microsoft employee here, opinions my own. I work in gaming at Microsoft and I really enjoy it. I think Microsoft gives us a ton of space to explore and make our own impact and I am a huge fan* of Phil Spencer. > Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision has been described as the largest in tech history. It deserves scrutiny. That scrutiny has paid off: Microsoft has committed in writing, in public, and in court to keep C…

> I am a huge can of Phil Spencer I'm sure Phil Spencer will be interested to know that he can fit into a can :)

I AM a HUGE can of Phil Spencer lmao. Fixed.

Re: Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

MikusR wrote: post #8

A snippet from the case "FTC: We've heard about the harms to Sony... Judge: This is about the harms to the consumer not to Sony. Let's take a break until 4:05."

FTC: Wait what?! We're supposed to be concerned about the rabble first?

Re: Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

darknavi wrote: post #2

Microsoft employee here, opinions my own. I work in gaming at Microsoft and I really enjoy it. I think Microsoft gives us a ton of space to explore and make our own impact and I am a huge fan* of Phil Spencer. > Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision has been described as the largest in tech history. It deserves scrutiny. That scrutiny has paid off: Microsoft has committed in writing, in public, and in court to keep C…

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Re: Microsoft wins FTC fight to buy Activision Blizzard

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Post by toblbg »

ansible wrote: post #13
vinyl7 wrote: post #3

The monopolization of every industry continues

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I don‘t think this will work for gaming. Competition from both new Indie titles and older games will always be there. If prices for newer games in big franchises increase without reason, at some point customers will leave and buy other games.
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