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

[kitler53]

Bloomberg

For MS this seems to be above Phil Spencer's pay grade.

is that a surpise?  with nadella talking about it several times it was pretty clear spencer wasn't "going it alone" on this one.  

like i said somewhere,.. i don't see spencer losing his job over this.   i could see him getting replaced but not specifically because of this.  

[the-pi-guy]

I know I said it earlier, but it's so bizarre to me how little faith MS fans have in Xbox.

is that a surpise?  with nadella talking about it several times it was pretty clear spencer wasn't "going it alone" on this one.  

like i said somewhere,.. i don't see spencer losing his job over this.   i could see him getting replaced but not specifically because of this.  

Not a surprise to me, just was surprised by Legend's questioning.  

I could see Spencer losing his job over the Xbox hardware or software management, but not the Activision stuff.

[Legend]

I know I said it earlier, but it's so bizarre to me how little faith MS fans have in Xbox.
Not a surprise to me, just was surprised by Legend's questioning. 

I could see Spencer losing his job over the Xbox hardware or software management, but not the Activision stuff.

To loosely quote national treasure, someone has to get fired.

Also I don't predict he'll get fired. I just wonder if he'll get fired.

[the-pi-guy]

To loosely quote national treasure, someone has to get fired.

Also I don't predict he'll get fired. I just wonder if he'll get fired.

I don't think Phil Spencer is stealing the declaration of independence.  

[BananaKing]

I don't think Phil Spencer is stealing the declaration of independence.  

Maybe he is and all this is just a distraction?

[Legend]

Maybe he is and all this is just a distraction?

Guess he got a bit confused though and went to the wrong Washington.

[kitler53]

wtf happened to this thread. 

[the-pi-guy]

"Basically, this is Microsoft and Brad Smith throwing their toys out of the pram after they didn't get the decision they wanted after all the lobbying they did," said Max von Thun, director of the Europe office of the Open Markets Institute, a proponent of stronger antitrust enforcement.

"They're struggling to maintain that 'good guy' reputation," von Thun said.

sauce

[Legend]

sauce

Oh good it wasn't just me that thought that about your Brad Smith quote.

[nnodley]

Oh lulu! Her tweets are just insane.  Now she's touting that Ukraine approved the merger and made the right call. Cause Ukraine doesn't have anything else to actually worry about than deliberate on this stupid deal. /s

The amount of replies to her are just as insane.  There's not a single world where this deal should go through.

[the-pi-guy]

The UK CMA report appears to reveal why Sony didn’t like the 10 year CoD deal — Microsoft’s 10 year deals with cloud providers made it so that Microsoft kept 100% of the game’s revenue (from purchase and in-game store purchases), where as currently, platform holders keep 30% pic.twitter.com/73hiYsUDan

— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) April 28, 2023

[nnodley]

Well good lord no wonder Sony doesn't want this deal. Like holy shame that's a terrible deal for one of PlayStations top selling games

[Legend]

The UK CMA report appears to reveal why Sony didn’t like the 10 year CoD deal — Microsoft’s 10 year deals with cloud providers made it so that Microsoft kept 100% of the game’s revenue (from purchase and in-game store purchases), where as currently, platform holders keep 30% pic.twitter.com/73hiYsUDan

— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) April 28, 2023

I can't believe someone didn't leak this detail. That's comically bad.

[nnodley]

There's a reason nintendo, nvidia, and others signed the deal.  They currently don't have those game on offer anyway and they don't stand to really lose out on revenue, so it wouldn't matter to them.

[kitler53]

The UK CMA report appears to reveal why Sony didn’t like the 10 year CoD deal — Microsoft’s 10 year deals with cloud providers made it so that Microsoft kept 100% of the game’s revenue (from purchase and in-game store purchases), where as currently, platform holders keep 30% pic.twitter.com/73hiYsUDan

— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) April 28, 2023

lulz,.. good guy MS abusing their power even before they buy ABK.   dear god that's messed up.