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Angelus said:

Ryuu96 said:

Now if Canada could approve it that'd be nice. If only Microsoft could force FTC to court...If they could do that before the CAT tribunal and win then that would put CMA in an even worse position but it looks unlikely. FTC is so shitty with these delay tactics, Lol. Know they won't beat Microsoft in court so just drag it out as long as possible until CMA wins then say "we did it!" even though they did nothing.

Should have put a big X over Russia, nobody cares about their approval.

I mean, couldn't MS still just close over them in the US within the next month or so and force the FTC's hand?

Based on what I've gathered from conversations with those who know more, they can't close the deal without CMA's approval, it's a written requirement in the contract, they can't close the deal on certain countries and not on others, it's all or nothing. They can remove CMA's approval requirement but would face massive fines from the UK. They can't spinoff Activision-Blizzard as an independent entity without CMA's say so and they can't get CMA's say so until it goes through CAT and back to CMA again where they once again negotiate concessions (behavioural or structural).

They can't force FTC's hand without first getting through CMA basically.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 19 May 2023