Brexit blocks Microsoft’s $67 Billion Activision Blizzard merger
UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is stopping a deal worth almost $70 billion by Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard. blocked in Britain, This deal would power Azure and Xbox dominance in cloud gaming. Sony had concerns trusting the competition with suspicions that Windows would tamper and sabotage games like Call Of Duty on other consoles. Fans had started work on filing lawsuits to stop the merger.
The effect of publishers merging proves affects different age groups and the intervention of business authorities proves a reminder that digital games are not just children’s toys. Last year November 2022 the world’s attention to US Court case filing Penguin Books getting blocked from the $2 billion deal to merge with rival publisher Simon & Schuster. By then $2.2 billion too little as Penguin Publishers had already taken the largest chunk of the literature industry including bookstores and associations. Microsoft president Brad Smith will try to overturn this ruling outside Brexit but isn’t it surprising how US Courts busted Penguin without noticing Windows, despite public outcry.
Microsoft’s $67 billion merger to acquire Activision Blizzard has been blocked
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While UK Courts saw nothing wrong with Penguin doing these mergers on paperbacks, only to notice Windows Blizzard problems.The CMA blocks almost 70% everyone successfully when there’s cause of concern. Brad Smith spoke to the BBC saying the UK regulator’s decision the “darkest day” for Microsoft in its four decades of working in Britain. He said “the European Union is a more attractive place to start a business” than the UK. Interesting to see how Microsoft can keep this deal alive. And the company keeps Activision users decreasing, not sure if it’s because of tough competition or rumours of the Windows trade licence.
Dungeons & Dragons fans logged off to call out; Hasbro, D&D Beyond, and WoTC for what they called a few changes with restrictions. Changes that would affect third-party intellectual property. A boycott to D&D compared to the boycott from Windows who lately laying off thousands of staff, or Activision Blizzard recently forced to settle on paying $35 million for sexual misconduct harassment work complaint cases.
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With almost 50 famous games, private cloud stores for accounting, the users being abused in this case, a number which Microsoft called miscalculated to argue this deal, statistics or facts concern for users, an error by the CMA. CMA sort of agreed to overlook those competing with Window stores, Azure, if third-party data is at stake and upon overlooking users of Call Of Duty, Windows services being limited to rival users still the biggest concern to winds up this failure to merge. The impact this deal would have on competition gaming consoles like Sony, Nintendo or Google and Open Source devices. So the subscribers of competing services for now rest protected by the CMA decision.It will take more to change the ruling.
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