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Ryuu96 on 22 August 2023
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  • Microsoft has transferred the Cloud Streaming rights to all current and future Activision-Blizzard Console & PC titles releasing over the next 15 years to Ubisoft.
  • The rights to those titles over those 15 years will be in perpetuity.
  • Microsoft will not be able to release any Activision-Blizzard titles exclusively on xCloud.
  • The games will be on Ubisoft+ and allow Ubisoft to license them to anyone.
  • Ubisoft compensates Microsoft for the rights through a one-off payment and market-based wholesale pricing mechanism, including an option to support pricing based on usage.
  • The agreement with Ubisoft has been structured so that Microsoft will still acquire the rights needed to honor fully its legal obligations under its commitments to the European Commission as well as its existing contractual obligations to other cloud game streaming providers, including Nvidia, Boosteroid, Ubitus, and Nware.
  • Microsoft is engaging closely with the European Commission to support the EC’s assessment of the agreement and confirmation that the commitments remain undisturbed.

Offering more than 10 years is crazy, I think it's unheard of, Lmao. I don't believe a single behavioural remedy to the CMA or EC was longer than 10 years.

Idas was right, this isn't closing until late September - Early October.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 22 August 2023