Activision Blizzard Sale to Microsoft Officially Approved by the CMA - Merger Expected to Close Friday Morning

Blizzard Posted 2023/10/13 at 2:07 AM by Archimtiros

officially granted their consentshort consultation periodinitial announcement

Competition and Markets Authority

The new deal will stop Microsoft from locking up competition in cloud gaming as this market takes off, preserving competitive prices and services for UK cloud gaming customers.

13 October 2023: The CMA decided to grant consent under paragraph 12 of the Microsoft and Activision Merger Inquiry Order 2023 for Microsoft to acquire Activision, excluding Activision’s non-EEA cloud streaming rights. See Microsoft / Activision Blizzard (ex-cloud streaming rights) merger inquiry for more information.Microsoft President Brad Smith

Bobby Kotick

Team,

Today the CMA, the regulatory authority in the UK, approved our transaction with Microsoft.

We now have all regulatory approvals necessary to close and we look forward to bringing joy and connection to even more players around the world.

Our board chair Brian Kelly and I are incredibly proud of all of you and your accomplishments over the last four decades. We’re excited for our next chapter together with Microsoft and the endless possibilities it creates for you and for our players.

With gratitude,

Bobby

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Comment by DrakknfyreF2p WoW or WoW as part of game pass would e great.FRIGGING HORRIBLEComment by Iskenator76So when is Bobby Cocktik leaving?Comment by VittorinoSo when is Bobby Cocktik leaving?Comment by MattSinz🤢🤮 Really bad news. Cant stop vomiting. There goes the free market and I cant understand people cheering at the creation of a monopol. Its the same sh!t as with Disney. Who in their right mind thinks that anything would be better now? Because Activision was so good for Blizzard? F*, no! Now another greedy company takes over, dictates prices and kills creativity.Comment by johntravolta342F2p WoW or WoW as part of game pass would e great.FRIGGING HORRIBLEComment by DrakknfyreI did play OW 2 and no heroes or maps are behind any paywall, you unlock heroes just by normally playing the game for free. And then you have $10 battle pass which gives you dozen of skins and bunch of other cosmetics while in WoW with your monthly sub you get maybe a mount and half a tmog set from traders post so I think we would have a much higher value for our money if the game was f2p. Feels like you have no idea what you are talking about and are just blindly following the hate bandwagon.FIFTY-HOUR GRINDComment by Anise"The new deal will stop Microsoft from locking up competition in cloud gaming as this market takes off....."

The "market" is not going anywhere. Some of the biggest players in the "market" pulled out already. Google being one of them. Using cloud gaming as a red herring is fishy as fudge. What are they hiding?

Cloud gaming? Are you serious? Do any of you even know anybody that plays games in the cloud using their hardware? I dont.Comment by johntravolta342I did play OW 2 and no heroes or maps are behind any paywall, you unlock heroes just by normally playing the game for free. And then you have $10 battle pass which gives you dozen of skins and bunch of other cosmetics while in WoW with your monthly sub you get maybe a mount and half a tmog set from traders post so I think we would have a much higher value for our money if the game was f2p. Feels like you have no idea what you are talking about and are just blindly following the hate bandwagon.FIFTY-HOUR GRINDComment by DrakknfyreIt's not a 50 hour grind. If you just do the missions you can get the new hero in less than 2 weeks of casually playingAs for maps I was talking about pvp maps but for pve yes you would have to spend extra money even if the game wasn't f2pAs for OW 1 everything that you paid for you still have so it's not like anything was taken away from youTry to relax and maybe completely ignore the stuff about the things you don't care about anymore.Comment by tupolew519At last!Comment by KlodaF2p WoW or WoW as part of game pass would e great.FRIGGING HORRIBLEyearsComment by DrakknfyreUnlike the game that you are paying for every month, including full-priced expansions that still does MTX, buy gold for money and is known to leave almost year-long content droughts every second year? I honestly don't know how you can look at that and say "that is bad!" while looking at WoW and say "this is good!", it's astounding. Is it because the ways they siphon your money is from different streams so you don't notice it?entire justificationI can only speak for myself but I'd prefer if it was F2Pdevelopers being hostile towards their players and terrible company practices that had been going on since way before that.Comment by MaliconeWhat about battle.net app? We still using it or it will shut down and we get new app?

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