Yup. While this was just a troll lawsuit, it also used a lot of FTC's and CMA's arguments. To see a judge so easily dismiss it in both an anticompetitive law standpoint and using simple logic to easily dismiss the CoD foreclosure concern is not a good sign at all for FTC's chances.

We did all know that FTC will lose in court because the law simply doesn't back them up at all and all they rely on is speculative nonsense but now we have an actual real-world example rather than speculation they will lose. If FTC were at all smart they would drop the case immediately if the CMA approves the deal. Crazy what using simple logic and facts does, Lol.

Feels like a lot of positive news in Microsoft's direction lately and the momentum/PR is on their side again.

• Gamers Lawsuit being so easily dismissed when it uses a lot of FTC's arguments.
• China reportedly approving the deal and Tencent being in favour of it.
• EU reportedly approving the deal with only behavioural concessions related to Cloud.
• CMA spending a lot of time listening to behavioural remedies.
• Nvidia coming onboard to support the deal, one of the major Cloud companies, along with multiple smaller ones.

Course it still ultimately comes down to the CMA but their case was already incredibly weak for blocking the deal, Microsoft and Sony are not close enough in UK, especially not when CMA's own arguments determine that only 3% would leave PlayStation for Xbox, how on Earth can they argue that is an SLC when PlayStation is at least 10%+ ahead of Xbox in UK and will grow considering PS's stock situation was awful last year.

The RCB's (Relevant Consumer Benefits) are growing fast thanks to all of these deals and one way to get CMA to accept behavioural remedies is by increasing RCBs, essentially Microsoft needs to say "if the deal is approved, it benefits this many consumers/companies, if the deal is blocked, it benefits this many" and the former needs to be more than the latter to encourage CMA to accept behavioural remedies, I think Microsoft has done that part.

CMA doesn't like monitoring behavioural remedies, well, Microsoft has offered to pay for an independent monitoring agency and now EU will be monitoring the Cloud concessions which will apply worldwide so CMA doesn't have to worry about that side. Once more, CMA has demanded any concessions they have be applied worldwide but if they want that then they should look at the worldwide market too.

This was all before Microsoft pointed out a huge flaw in their maths in regards to CMA's belief that Microsoft has incentive to foreclose CoD on PlayStation, if CMA doesn't fix that mistake then it will 100% be taken to CAT and CMA surely has to know that, they have to know that they already had a weak case even before Microsoft pointed out their maths error, are they happy for it to be taken to CAT? Maybe, Lol.

CMA could still block it because it has felt a little like they've wanted to block it from day one and their arguments are incredibly weak but they've stuck by them and if they do they will seemingly be the only regulator to do so and be on their own little island, FTC has not yet issued an attempt to block the deal and we can now see clearly that the US Courts don't back them.

Just to follow up on this after what Trunks said (100+, 500+, 1000+) the numbers are like this after 23 days of march.

Xbox Series X/S: Between 6,500 and 29,443 sales
PS5: Over 48,000 sales

Series S = Between 4,300 and 21,457 sales
Series X = Between 2,200 and 7,986 sales

In Feb after 23 days the Xbox Series minimum was 21,600 over triple this months minimum. I mean there is the chance that all those 100+ are actually 499 to get that 29,443 maximum but it's very unlikely.

Series X stock in USA is shameful.

Testing something.

Yup. My timestamp is wrong, Lol.

I thought Zippy was posting from the future.

@Zippy6 is yours wrong too?

What time stamps do you mean. Your post shows as 4 minutes ago, edited 1 minute ago. If there's a setting for actual times I don't have that on.

Edit: My time is 1 hour out. Shows as 13:38 instead of 12:38 no matter if "Adjust for DST" is ticked on or off.

Always something, Lol.

I've told Bandorr.

Like a new studio popping up every week lately...

Not a surprise though, it has been very easy to get funding lately, especially if you're a veteran, I think it was only last year when ProbablyMonster's broke the investor funding record for a gaming studio, the cash is flowing.

We pretty much know that since almost 2 years tho :) They explained all of this multiple times.

They also said that you will get only "few" uniques per saison. For instance during this weekend beta, I believe one or two players only got that unique from the rare spawn Butcher. I farmed it like crazy and did not get it.

You can probably find on Reddit a screenshot of it if you are curious.