Nice to see Xbox have marketing for a game as big as Diablo IV and it actually pans out as a dub. Here's hoping MS can still close that ABK deal somehow.

The deal is dead. 

I propose that everyone who says "deal is dead" or some variation of it gets a thread ban for a week

I'm only parroting the thread owner. I did nothing wrong and everything correct.  

Also the deal is dead angie. 

yep like: The deal is dead, long live the deal! 😉

CMA CEO Sarah Cardell Wrote a Letter to the Editor.

The Times View on Competition: Closed for Business

OPEN FOR BUSINESS

Sir, Further to your leading article ("Closed for Business", Jun 5), prohibiting anti-competitive mergers helps to protect people and businesses from higher prices, worse choices and less innovation. But it is a tool we rarely use. Thousands of mergers and acquisitions affect the UK each year, yet fewer than 1 per cent are prohibited. Nearly all go ahead, including Microsoft's recent $20 billion purchase of the software company Nuance, which we cleared within a few months. Our view remains that maintaining a free competitive market is better than accepting Microsoft's plan for continuing regulation.

Sarah Cardell
Chief executive, Competition and Markets Authority

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Safe to say that CMA's not changing their minds and today's meeting didn't mean shit, Lol.

Smith met with Hunt but it wasn't together with CMA, Hunt is meeting CMA separately, so this meeting likely didn't mean a thing to begin with.

Is Smith planning on meeting with Janet Yellen as well, or are they just going to assume any Trump appointed judges is going to side with Microsoft over the ftc?

Deal is still dead. More dead than most of Rares older IP.

They'll assume any judge will side with the law, doesn't really matter, Trump appointed or Biden appointed, the law is the law for America and nothing in this deal breaks the law, the FTC will lose no matter what judge they go up against.

The Gamers Lawsuit has been dismissed by Jacqueline Scott Corley who is a Biden appointed judge and the Gamers Lawsuit shares a lot of arguments as the planned FTC lawsuit to block the deal but Jacqueline basically dismissed everything, Lol.

USA judges are very biased, if they weren't there would be no reason to appeal things to the 5th circuit, have it fail there and have to appeal it to the supreme court.