Lol at Lucy asking Phil how he gets around having too many games on Game Pass (the overwhelming factor) and Phil asks Lucy if she has an opinion but Tamoor butted in and answered the question and Phil turned around (jokingly) and said "I didn't ask you".

Made me laugh. Also true, he didn't ask you Tamoor

He then asked Lucy if she thinks there's too many games in Game Pass today but she said no, she thinks Game Pass lately is better curated but Netflix is overwhelming with the content now so if Xbox has a number in mind on a ceiling.

Phil says they're more focused on balancing diversity.

Booty says they don't want to announce a game and then go dark for 4 years, they would like to get to a point where they can announce a game, then next year show a gameplay demo and then launch sometime that year, he says that would be a great cadence to get into.

He thinks that Perfect Dark and State of Decay 3 are 2025.

Idas Said:

MLex reports that Microsoft and Activision can expect the FTC injunction request in federal court today!

- The Federal Trade Commission is planning to file a preliminary injunction request in federal court today to stop the deal from closing.

- The FTC anticipates that the parties are moving to speed up the closing date of the transaction, that's why the FTC will seek a temporary order in federal court preventing that from happening. The agency would need to act before the companies close the transaction, which would otherwise make a preliminary injunction moot.

- The FTC wants to avoid another Illumina-Grail case, where it filed a preliminary injunction request and a complaint at its administrative court, but later dropped the preliminary injunction because the European Commission was still reviewing the deal. Then Illumina ended up closing the deal.

- In order to be granted a preliminary injunction from a judge, the FTC needs to show that there's an imminent risk that the companies would close the deal.

- In the gamer's lawsuit, a federal judge in California declined to issue a preliminary injunction blocking the deal from closing.

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FTC is skipping the internal court nonsense and moving straight to an actual block, finally!

They wouldn't be doing this unless they were worried that Microsoft is about to close.

Oh boy, this is where the fun begins, time for the FTC to be smashed in court.

CMA isn't getting the job done fast enough and FTC can't file for a block if Microsoft closes before the filing.

Now Microsoft will have to put a lengthy extension on the deal though which seemed to be what they were trying to avoid.

Told y'all, FTC was fucking insane enough to actually try to block it.

If Microsoft opts to extend the deal then FTC is going to be smashed in court and waste everyone's time and money, as per usual the past few years.

Microsoft got another win against CMA today as well, new evidence is allowed but subject to certain conditions.

Considering how fucking dumb this entire deal had been so far I wouldn’t be surprised if they got their block. 

edit: forgot to add, deal is still dead. 

and everwild?

I’ve read some of the worst takes I’ve ever seen lately since this show. Maybe we need to unblock Sega to keep some of these jokers in their lane. That guy goes in hard.

They will get their block on preventing the deal from closing, the threshold for that is very low, all they need to show is that Microsoft is planning on closing the deal, Lol. But a block on preventing the deal closing is temporary, because it then actually goes to federal court instead of FTC's sham internal court where Microsoft and FTC will argue on why the deal should/shouldn't go ahead.

If Microsoft could file it first then the FTC can't block it because it has already closed, instead they'd have to take them to court to break them up.

So basically, FTC will get their temporary injunction to stop the deal from closing but that also means they've just skipped over all their internal court stuff and we're at the federal courts now, and there is no doubt in my mind that Microsoft will win there and that temporary block will be lifted.

If Microsoft and Activision both want to extend then this is the best possible scenario for Microsoft in dealing with the FTC, Lmao.

Everyone knows FTC will lose in federal court, it's why they didn't do it in the first place, their planned court case isn't until August and now suddenly as things aren't going so well for the CMA and Microsoft may close over the UK. The FTC is finally actually suing to block the deal. Probably to give the CMA more time to finish the deal off and to provide CMA more support against CAT in blocking the deal.

An injunction is what the FTC has been avoiding and what Microsoft has wanted all along, something has spooked the FTC and forced their hand.

14 days for a TRO and the actual case will be a really short case of MS vs FTC. FTC has to prove "immediate harm" in order to block it. Console immediate harm hasn't been accepted in any country and Cloud immediate harm doesn't exist either because Activision doesn't offer their games on most Cloud services and in fact, all the deals Microsoft has made do the opposite of immediate harm.