SvennoJ said:
How are these concessions? People still buy the games from MS, MS gets the money. People can stream the games on different streaming services, doesn't cost MS any money. The streaming services will get more traffic. Yet any savvy gamer will eventually move over to xCloud with gamepass ultimate instead of essentially paying twice to play the games. It's exactly why the CMA is blocking the deal. The 'concessions' are nothing but a Trojan horse. |
Oh, don't get me wrong. I think the CMA sees through the ruse. But also, Sunak's recent (LinkedIn lol) statements can't be ignored, he made them while MS is literally filing for the appeal. The CMA is now under right-wing imposed political pressure to stop regulating. The only way Sunak's statements could've been made clearer was for him to explicitly say "allow the merger".