During Activision’s earnings conference call for the second quarter of fiscal year 2014, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg was asked if the publisher has any intention to provide an online subscription service similar to Electronic Arts’ EA Access.
The legal battle for the acquisition of Activision Blizzard continues, with Microsoft countering one of the FTC's latest moves and the Judge delaying a relevant ruling.
Look, to be honest the FTC should just stop.
MS has A/B and nothing has really changed yet...if you are worried about 5-10 years from now...just drop it cause the future is unpredictable.
Take this week's news, that 4 Xbox exclusive are going Multiplatform.
The FTC and the lawyers behind the "Gamers' lawsuit" against Microsoft over the acquisition of Activision Blizzard are denouncing the recent layoffs within the respective legal battles.
The legal battle between Microsoft and the FTC over the Activision Blizzard acquisition continues. The house of Xbox just scored a major point but the FTC is firing back.
Yeah man I think Microsoft here getting to probe is kinda wrong unless you only have accessed to necessary information not complete access imo.
Obviously they aren't giving them the password to Sony's computers and telling them "help yourself."
Maybe Microsoft should also talk and get help from their "congressional influencers" at The Capital. They had plenty to say on the matter before the acquisition. They are mighty quiet after the purchase went through. Almost as if they had a stake in the matter.
Could you perhaps explain how this is related? I'm honestly curious since you seem to bring it up rather often.
You should be careful upsetting Sony too much Microsoft.
You might need them to sell your subpar games soon.
This isn't a major victory. They're essentially being allowed to call witnesses in regards to agreements they reached with Sony and Ubisoft which was initially blocked because Microsoft didn't make the request through the proper channels. This case is dead, there is no way the ftc will be allowed to unwind this acquisition.
they probably know case is death but want some proof to sue them for a few millions regarding other stuff, the ftc loves to sue everyone, be sure that as soon as all this end they will just go sue MS and end in a settlement.
As expected. This has not even been tested yet. In fact EA has still not finalized all the details. Other will only follow suite if EA has success and getting gamers to buy in.
I think the early access and discounts on digital downloads will cause gamers to buy in, if it includes all new digital downloads, when the final version is made available. If that happens then you will see competing offerings from the other big publishers.
If this succeeds, it will surely hurt Sony's current model. If it fails to catch on then they have a much better chance to succeed with PSNow, as there will have no one competing for those oldies but goodies market. I don't see EA backing away from this very easily. They would find away to sweeten the pot.
It's a lie they are thinking about it, just a matter of time.
Lets be honest here, Activision doesnt have the library to offer this kind of service. EA is like the PERFECT company to do something like this.
...For now.
But if EA and Sony are successful you can bet that a lot of the big company houses will do the same. I can even see these third party publishers going to little devs or indie houses and offering their services for their games to appear exclusive on their service.
Then it's going to be a whole different war of trying to secure games on a platform.
Microsoft DRM attempt netted them an IOU with EA and Activision. Mark my words watch MS, EA, and Acti during 2015.
Once Activision games catalog get a little bigger on the One (where they can start with 4-5 games like EA), they will follow down EA's path.