We will still have to wait for the final decisions on these cases.
The purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft is probably the most important business movement of the past year 2022, even if we put aside the video game industry itself. When this was announced to us, we were able to know that at the beginning of the following year, that is, in 2023, if everything went according to plan, this purchase would be completed, and therefore some of the best games in history, now owned by Activision. Blizzard, they would become Microsoft, and therefore they would come to Xbox Game Pass predictably. Unfortunately, this has not been achieved, especially due to problems encountered by two government organizations: US FTC and UK CMA.
Many of you will probably wonder how and when we will know the official resolution of this purchase, and now that the judge in charge of the case in the United Kingdom has ruled, we finally know what are the key dates of this casewhich we will show you below, so that you are attentive to the subject if you wish.
These are the most important dates
As reported by Video Games Chronicles, Judge Marcus Smith, who will take the case against the FTC for blocking the purchase of Activision Blizzard, has set July 24 as the day on which the hearings for this trial begin which is expected to be highly mediated. This is probably a setback for Microsoft, which had asked that it be held as soon as possible, but the judge seems to have chosen to agree with the CMA in this sense, since it wanted to extend it as long as possible, in order to be able to prepare well for the event. judgment.
For its part, the trial for the decision of the FTC, the competent agency in the United States, will start from August 2so we can say that the dates of both trials overlap each other, causing Microsoft to have a busy summer, and probably with many new features.
Now, with these dates in mind, we can only wait until all these procedures run their course, and we know, once and for all, if the purchase goes through or results in failure.