"would allow Microsoft to set the terms and conditions for this market for the next ten years."
Those terrible, awful terms being that Microsoft will allow a free license to stream ABK titles to every Cloud Service Provider as opposed to the alternative where only the richest companies can have access to Activision-Blizzard titles or the richest company will get an exclusive license to all ABK titles and cut out all the competition.
CMA is baffling...
Digging their heels in, it's clear that the EC's decision won't affect them at all, CAT will (maybe) send it back to CMA and CMA will block it again, they've made that clear in that tweet response, they won't accept this deal no matter what.
Our response to the European Commission's announcement today on Microsoft/Activision ⬇
— Competition & Markets Authority (@CMAgovUK) May 15, 2023
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Microsoft’s proposals, accepted by the European Commission today, would allow Microsoft to set the terms and conditions for this market for the next 10 years.
— Competition & Markets Authority (@CMAgovUK) May 15, 2023
[3/5]
This is one of the reasons the CMA’s independent panel group rejected Microsoft’s proposals and prevented this deal.
— Competition & Markets Authority (@CMAgovUK) May 15, 2023
While we recognise and respect that the European Commission is entitled to take a different view, the CMA stands by its decision.
[5/5]
Does CMA usually respond when one regulator made a different decision to them? Feels kind of...insecure, Lol.
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 15 May 2023
