๐ Microsoft's $68.7 billion Activision buy has been killed by UK regulators
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๐ Quelle: appleinsider.com
Demonstrating a complete lack of understanding of the entire gaming market, UK's Competition and Markets Authority has officially declared that Microsoft buying Activision/Blizzard will result in reduced competition, and won't be allowed.
In a ruling issued early on Wednesday morning, UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has blocked Microsoft's buy of Activision. The CMA still believes that Microsoft would find it "commercially beneficial to make Activision games exclusive to its own cloud gaming service (or only available on other services under materially worse conditions)."Despite a lengthy comment period, the CMA said that Microsoft "failed to effectively address the concerns in the cloud gaming sector." Furthermore, it said that it was "not sufficiently open to providers who might wish to offer versions of games on PC operating systems other than Windows."Read more...