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Ryuu96 on 28 March 2023

“I firmly believe that we can't reach the billions of gamers that we hope to reach, without empowering more developers who have access to other communities,” explains James Lewis, senior creative partner programs lead at Xbox.

Damn straight!
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EpicRandy on 28 March 2023

Ryuu96 said:

ABK CEO Bobby Kotick sent a new internal email about the Microsoft deal. Says they are progressing on regulator approvals.

Also says that "Sony's behavior" in this process will "not effect" their partnership and they will continue to deliver "best possible" PlayStation games pic.twitter.com/4PtooSivTw
— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) March 28, 2023

Sony has even admitted that they aren't actually concerned about a Call of Duty agreement—they would just like to prevent our merger from happening. This is obviously disappointing behavior from a partner for almost thirty years, but we will not allow Sony's behavior to affect our long term relationship. PlayStation players know we will continue to deliver the best games possible on Sony platforms as we have since the launch of PlayStation.

Ho god not again... look at what you made me do Sony, after Lina Khan made me agree with Jim Jordan I have to agree with Kotick now.

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Ryuu96 on 28 March 2023

Funny people called Lulu a liar as well...

Unless Bobby is also lying!

Jk

Still. Fuck Bobby.

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aTokenYeti on 28 March 2023

My personal theory about Series X stock issues: the ABK acquisition has tied up an enormous amount of corporate resources for Microsoft and specifically the Xbox brand, to the point that money that would have gone to securing manufacturing orders is being held back until the purchase is completed and resources can be freed up again

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Spade on 28 March 2023

gtotheunit91 said:

Ryuu96 said:

ABK CEO Bobby Kotick sent a new internal email about the Microsoft deal. Says they are progressing on regulator approvals.

Also says that "Sony's behavior" in this process will "not effect" their partnership and they will continue to deliver "best possible" PlayStation games pic.twitter.com/4PtooSivTw
— CharlieIntel (@charlieINTEL) March 28, 2023

Sony has even admitted that they aren't actually concerned about a Call of Duty agreement—they would just like to prevent our merger from happening. This is obviously disappointing behavior from a partner for almost thirty years, but we will not allow Sony's behavior to affect our long term relationship. PlayStation players know we will continue to deliver the best games possible on Sony platforms as we have since the launch of PlayStation.

Good Guy Bobby

Legit thought the same thing reading this lmao.

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VersusEvil on 28 March 2023

Jim could learn a thing from Bobby.

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Ryuu96 on 28 March 2023

Just when you think Phase 2 is the final phase!

Microsoft/Activision Blizzard: Chinese Review Drags On In Phase 3 Despite Mostly Positive Feedback From Game Developers $MSFT $ATVI
— The Capitol Forum (@Capitol_Forum) March 28, 2023

Equity Report says that SAMR are really busy and short on staff.

This adds 60 days to procedure, so that is late May if a decision doesn't come early.