Because the UK branches also have to become one legal entity, and obey to the UK legal system. As strange at is might look like, US companies have to obey the law of countries they operate on. Which seems to be quite strange apparently, as I have to educate some of them on how German work law works.
Activision just needs to close its UK branch. It is gone anyway.
As it happens in Europe, one company cannot just close their branch willy-nilly.
Activision just needs to close its UK branch. It is gone anyway.
As it happens in Europe, one company cannot just close their branch willy-nilly.
Never heard of a non-local company unable to close their branch, this does not make any sense at all, it looks more fishy than anything else, more marketing to me to make people talk about them, since we all know they would have managed, UK agreement or not. Maybe UK is building "a case" to be able to fine msft/activision, since they are not part of EU anymore, they have to do that by themselves now. And I am on UK side (I quite dislike msft and activision), but anti-trust (mass default install), obvious planned obsolescence are plenty to fine them all the time at their scale, namely gigantic. That should be "fixed" by the US administration, but they have no clue how to do that, actually who has?