Another L to Brexit. 
Take us back, Europe! *Unless Europe rejects it as well.
I shouldn't have been surprised that yet another Government agency would do something stupid, since absolutely nothing works in UK at the moment.
I'm not surprised Microsoft is taking this to CAT but the bar is extremely high and they're unlikely to succeed, CMA has too little oversight and too much power, even if they succeed it ultimately goes back to CMA to make another decision and it can be another block, although maybe Microsoft can be given more time to offer more remedies, however, this feels more like a case of CMA wanting to block it from the very start and looking for anything to justify it, it looks like CMA won't accept Behavioural Remedies no matter what because that hate monitoring Behavioural Remedies.
Wonder if this will backfire on the CMA in the long-term though, pissing off a few multi-billion dollar companies could make them lobby the UK Government to decrease CMA's overall power, which honestly needs to happen, the CMA baffles lawyers from around the world with how much power they have and how little you can do against them.
This decision from CMA could have negative affects on investment into new things as well...If they can be sectioned off into an incredibly small and narrow market and then used to justify blocking you from buying anything to grow it. Ah man, I'd have had less issue with them blocking it on the Console market as a whole than the frigging Cloud market, Lol.
Imo, it isn't even a sure thing that the Cloud market will ever take off, big corporations are already exiting or barely trying, Microsoft have said that xCloud doesn't make money, Cloud Gaming is heavily dependent on ISPs actually improving their shit which they move at a snails pace for and native hardware will always be superior.
I'd propose an extreme suggestion that Microsoft should consider killing off xCloud to get this deal through, which would be absolute insanity and damaging to the tiny market but I really think Cloud Gaming is a uncertain gamble and Activision-Blizzard-King will bring in more money to Xbox, Game Pass and PC than xCloud ever will.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 26 April 2023
