Waste of money for Sony imo, remember that the very same clauses that get were bought for was the reason why it was rumored why MS couldn’t come to a deal, Remain independent and no exclusivity plus over 2 billion.

This does nothing for me imo since CoD is way bigger and now has a better chance of staying exclusive outside of Warzone which makes much more revenue than Destiny.

My guess is that they wanted something that can get them guaranteed revenue year after year.

Yeah, I feel like the leadership over at Bungie greatly overvalue themselves (wanting independence and not wanting exclusivity). I would have thought Bungie was worth in the hundreds of millions at most since they only have 1 ip (although maybe that's silly of me considering 1ip devs seem to fetch large amounts of money). Insomniac for example was a well priced aquisition by Sony and didn't cost anywhere near a billion dollars (let alone nearly 4 billion). Insomniac has a proven track history of creating phenomenal games to boot (Ratchet, Resistance, Sunset Overdrive, Spiderman) same can't be said for Bungie. 

With all of that said, Jim Ryan said Sony isn't done so I do wonder if they're targeting any large publishers (particularly Japanese ones). I see Capcom and Square Enix being thrown around a lot by social media (both are certainly within Sony's price range). Another possibility is Sony continues to just go after individual devs, maybe Techland, maybe some smaller devs like Supergiant games, etc... Only time will tell who else they nab, interesting to speculate regardless. 

Yeah, I feel like the leadership over at Bungie greatly overvalue themselves (wanting independence and not wanting exclusivity). I would have thought Bungie was worth in the hundreds of millions at most since they only have 1 ip (although maybe that's silly of me considering 1ip devs seem to fetch large amounts of money). Insomniac for example was a well priced aquisition by Sony and didn't cost anywhere near a billion dollars (let alone nearly 4 billion). Insomniac has a proven track history of creating phenomenal games to boot (Ratchet, Resistance, Sunset Overdrive, Spiderman) same can't be said for Bungie. 

With all of that said, Jim Ryan said Sony isn't done so I do wonder if they're targeting any large publishers (particularly Japanese ones). I see Capcom and Square Enix being thrown around a lot by social media (both are certainly within Sony's price range). Another possibility is Sony continues to just go after individual devs, maybe Techland, maybe some smaller devs like Supergiant games, etc... Only time will tell who else they nab, interesting to speculate regardless. 

Listen to Hoeg Law: https://youtu.be/FAUp-4LN5gI?t=1330

He's a lawyer, better than any of us to comment on this.

Microsoft sends their documents to FTC and they have 30 days to respond, FTC can either respond with approval, let it lapse (if they say nothing, the deal is allowed) or ask Microsoft for a 2nd look (they ask for more information) and request a bunch more stuff, Hoeg believes it's reasonable to assume this will be a 2nd look acquisition which usually massively extends the timeline to close cause FTC can keep asking for information and the 2nd window doesn't start until then, which is again another 30 days where FTC will once again either decide to block, allow, lapse (which is basically allowing it) or ask for concessions.

Hoeg is at 80-90% chance of it being approved, says you could go as low as 70% but it incorporates the possibility of a concession (i.e. you can't buy this part), he says it is enormously unlikely they will ask Microsoft to make something multiplatform.

Microsoft has to pay Activision-Blizzard $3bn if the deal doesn't go through, I'm assuming they will pay it and move on, I strongly suspect that those who don't want the deal to go through won't like the alternative if it doesn't, that money will just be spent elsewhere, likely on studios they actually care about, Lol.