How time changes things

Fucking hell, 343 needs to make it possible to rejoin a ranked match. I've been playing with PC gamers and lost plenty of rank points because teammates keep crashing.

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) and Activision (NASDAQ:ATVI) expect the UK's antitrust regulator will issue its remedy working paper as part of its review of the $69 billion transaction next week.

The UK Competition and Markets Authority is likely to issue the remedy working paper by the end of next week, according to a Dealreporter item, which cited sources familiar.

The report comes after the UK regulator late last month "provisionally concluded" that the proposed deal would not reduce competition in the console gaming market, sending Activision shares up 6% on March 24, as investors became more confident that the UK regulator may allow the deal.

Activision/Microsoft Expect Remedy Working Paper From UK Agency Next Week | Seeking Alpha

So I guess next week we will know whether CMA is still set on divesture or not.

CMA gonna swerve us...

343 needs to fix alot of things honestly, kind of remarkable just how meh of a state the game is still in after a year and 4 months post-launch. Equipable AI's are broken, I have Lumu equipped but keep getting BUTLR voice lines, and I've tried change to multiple other AI including BUTLR himself, restarting the game, etc, and it's still glitched, and on top of that the AI's barely speak now, I get like one AI voice line per hour of play it feels like. The new weapon they added actually made the sandbox worse imo, not a big fan of it since it has basic iron sight zoom making it basically the starting pistol but with a lower fire rate and more damage per bullet, and it replaced weapons I do use on many maps because they just moved into the rotation for existing weapon spawn boxes instead of adding new weapon spawn boxes to the maps for it. Recorded two clips recently of sniper headshots that clearly hit the head but counted as body shots. For some reason they added some objective modes to the Tactical Slayer playlist, it has slayer in the name but they thought adding king of the hill to the playlist was a good idea. The store is still a mess, the number of items available per day, half week, and week is way too low, there are cosmetics I missed that I would love to spend real money on, but who knows when they will cycle back into the shop, and if I will be playing the day or week that they do cycle back in. MMR seems to be failing miserably, recently had like 9 lost matches in a row, each time either first or second on my team with a positive KDR, while in most of those matches my bottom two teammates were getting like 3 or 4 kills and 14 or 15 deaths each. Getting matched with the same names on more than one match in a row which suggests the player population is pretty poor. I'm honestly not sure if Infinite is fixable at this point, they just seem too far behind. It's probably for the best that Tatanka seems to have been expanded from just battle royale to a full Halo MP experience with arena and BTB options, and is planned to succeed Infinite, hopefully they can get Tatanka out by Holiday 2025 at least. 

Rumor is that Nintendo asked for Xbox to block the running of emulators on retail Xbox Series units. They suck so much sometimes, smh.