Pannick is known for his handling of extremely high-profile cases. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he has represented Manchester City FC, the UK government, and Queen Elizabeth II.
*But but what about my billions! If you don't approve my personal golden parachute this country is closed for business and no one will want to ever do business here again! I will unleash an army of fanboys on you! My billions!*
The decision made no sense and you all know it. I get the bias and the wish to keep Sony in first place, but the argument of cloud gaming as the reason made no sense.
You are so blind. You cant even se why the majority of ppl here are against it.. "i get the bias and the wish to keep Sony in first place". Again you are so wrong... But again, perhaps you are not?. 🤣🤣.. If its the only way to prevent Xbox to remove so many games from other players so be it.. Hail Sony!.... Let there be only ONE!!! /s
Yup. The people here agreeing with the reason behind the block, are the very same that have been mocking the "cloud" and Microsofts investment in it for about a decade now.
You think the UK alone is gonna stop this deal? Lol, if the EU Approves. They will close the deal and work around the UK.
If the UK doesn't change their decision. Best case scenario, they let someone else publish Activision Blizzard games in the UK. Or publish them with a different name under Xbox Game Studios.
Worst case scenario they pull Activision Blizzard games out of the UK. UK Gamers would have to find other ways to play CoD like in any other country where Activision Blizzard doesn't officially operate.
It wouldn't be the first tech company to pull out of the UK due to their shitty attitude towards businesses.
The UK is not that big of a deal. There's only 90 million people there. They can afford to pull out if it comes down to it.
The EU has 600 million people and US & Canada 400 million. There are way bigger and more important markets than the UK.
The only one who can stop this deal completely is the EU. They are gonna wipe the floor with the FTC in court.
But if the EU blocks it, I don't think they're gonna want to fight them. Because unlike the CMA. If the EU blocks it they will probably have way better arguments.
At this point Zeref, you're just being insulting. One decision doesn't go the way of the workds biggest tech company and all of a sudden the UK isn't a great place for business and "90m" are irrelevant. Grow up, it's a box.
That would mean shutting down all Microsoft data centres in the UK that runs Azure and it would basically cripple a large portion of businesses. Not to mention the staggering loss Microsoft would run
Your problem is that you believe that the odds are in their favor in the EU. Lmao, that's not the case. Therefore, your entire reasoning will be flawed.
Yep in that article snippet you can tell he represented gubernamental institutions and the risk of loosing those are rarer than a Juan on a KKK convention
While historically the majority of rulings from the CAT (a completely separate entity mind you, they dont need to convince the CMA of anything for the appeal), favor the CMA, its not exactly like its unheard of or barely happens.
So while its really anyone’s guess how its going to play out (just as the block happened for the reason no one seemed to cared about haha), I guess its relevant to know that Microsoft isn’t appealing to the CMA, but rather a wholly different entity and there is precedent (couldn’t tell you exact numbers) for them ruling against the CMA
CAT can’t dictate anything to CMA. They can merely recommend that he CMA reassess from a different angle. Please read up and do your homework before you post.
Can you please point out where exactly I said the CAT can force the CMA to something? And thats putting aside that technically it can, if the CMA for example fines a company and loses the appeal to the CAT, its not like they can just proceed with the fine. Same thing here, if they were to lose the appeal, its not exactly a suggestion that they did something wrong and the block can just continue like normal (it doesnt mean its automatically approved either). Yes, the CMA will have to go back and if they still want to block it, see if the grounds on which they blocked it need to be changed based on the CAT ruling.
All of which is completely irrelevant to anything I said in my comment to darth which was about who the appeal is actually going to, and whether the CMA has lost appeals in the past or not.
The extent Microsoft will go with their money to do everything except consistently provide its audience quality games with the studios they already own
Can really tell now that Microsoft knows that if they don't get this through then Xbox really is done. Do or die! Must be a really huge part of their strategy.
They can hired all the lawyers they want. The moment Microsoft threatened UK it was done.
Maybe hire Nintendo's lawyers, they'd definitely get the job done lol 😂.
They can hire Perry Mason for all i care... they will not change the CMA mind. Appeals dont work on the CMA.
The extent Microsoft will go with their money to do everything except consistently provide its audience quality games with the studios they already own