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It seems that the drama of the purchase of Activision Blizzard continues as usual, this time with the European Commission forming new doubts and walls that make it impossible to still give the general approval to the merger agreement. Microsoft offers solutions to the EU to obtain the go-ahead for the purchase of Activisionbut the EC seems to tighten the fence and show its concerns in the following way.
Although Microsoft has offered solutions in an attempt to obtain antitrust approval from the European Union, with the goal of certify at once the purchase of Activision for 69,000 million dollarsas shown on Friday in a European Commission dossier, appears to still not be enough.
The European Commission pronounces on the purchase of Activision Blizzard, this time eliminating conversations about the console sector
The EU competition defense body, let it all be said, He did not provide details related to his policy.will now focus on gathering the opinion of rivals and potential customers of the Microsoft agreement before May 22, 2023. As we have learned through Reuters, the talks between Microsoft and the EC are not related to the field of consoles.
In addition, and this is the most important thing, the proposal that Microsoft put on the table last night before the EC, it only covers cloud gaming services, leaving out the console sector. This is mainly due to the fact that the EC’s main concerns are cloud gaming, and the conflict that resides in this area with Sony itself.
Despite the fact that Microsoft was offering its rivals agreements to alleviate in a certain way the problems with the competition, it seems that for the moment, these measures do not serve to satisfy certain regulatory bodies. From Microsoft they defend themselves, arguing that their promise is to bring Call of Duty to more devices, hence the agreements signed with well-known companies in the sector such as Nvidia and Nintendo.
We would already have a date for the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft, if it receives the go-ahead from the regulators
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In the same way, agreements have been made with Boosteroid and Ubitus KK for games in the cloud, closely linked to the purchase of Activision Blizzard and to bring their games to the more people the better. Despite Microsoft is likely to eventually get EU clearancethe jury is still out on whether the CMA will end up doing the same.