The game giant won another judicial battle with an American Federal Business Commission (FTC). The Federal Court of Appeal in the San Francisco unanimously confirmed the previous decision, with the help of which FTC has no right to block the receipt of Activision Blizzard from MicrosoftField
Microsoft completed historical trade worth almost $ 69 billion in the fall of 2023, but the FTC still appealed in December/December to question the court decision and block the transaction. But these efforts were officially terminated when the court admitted that FTC could not provide sufficient evidence to confirm his problemsField
The key point in the dispute was FTC that Microsoft would danger the competitive environment – for example, limiting access to the publisher’s plays on other platforms. Nevertheless, the court came to the conclusion that the commission cannot prove that the competition will really happen or will be probable. In other words, this does not indicate that Microsoft plans to abuse his new position. In the same way, the argumentation of subscription damage or cloud reproduction failed.
Interesting, The court even recalled that exclusivity is a common practice in the game industry, which is used by other large players such as Sony or NintendoThe field and precisely because it is an established model, it cannot be perceived as a fundamental problem in the case of Microsoft.
Already during the negotiations (before the acquisition), Microsoft tried to facilitate the problems of regulatory authorities, even in other countries, for example, in Britain, the conditions for spreading stream games were changed, where some rights fell to Ubisoft. Or signing an agreement with Sony, which shows that for 10 years, Call of Duty will be based on PlayStation and NVIDIA due to the activation of Blizzard and Microsoft in GeForce Now.
Thus, we can still write that Microsoft has completed one of the largest acquisitions in the history of the gaming industry, and the publishing house Call of Duty, Diablo or World of Warcraft is his.
One such attraction. Microsoft kept the promise that Activision Blizzard will work separately. So the Zenimax Media and Bethesda work. Unfortunately, for us, players from the Czech Republic and Slovakia, this means one negative: Microsoft does not affect localization, and the games of these companies no longer have Czech subtitles, although Xbox games are often translated (Forza Horizon 5, south of midnight or GEARS of War: E-Day).
Source :Indian TV
