Bet: Will the Activision Deal close? - It has closed

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Started by the-pi-guy, Feb 01, 2023, 05:14 PM

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Potentially.

They threw out 5 options

1.) Spinning off CoD by itself, MS takes the rest of Activision Blizzard King.

2.) Spinning off Activision, Microsoft takes Blizzard King

3.) Spinning off Activision Blizzard, Microsoft takes just King.

4.) Cancelling the deal

5.) Convincing the CMA to take behavioral remedies. Which even the 10 year CoD deals aren't enough.

MS sounds like they're still aiming to make behavioral remedies.

How would #1 work? Every Activision studio works on COD nowadays. Splitting the two seems pointless from both Microsoft and the buyer's perspective. It's not like Activision has other IPs that Microsoft really wants to own.

2, 4, and 5 seem like the only realistic outcomes.

for a supposedly site of well educated people... some of these posts on era are just wildly dumb.
That makes sense, it's era  ::)