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Microsoft and FTC Are Fighting Over Ubisoft Deal Investigation in Activision Acquisition Case

While the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft has been closed, the legal battle between the house of Xbox and the FTC continues.

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XiNatsuDragnel126d ago

Yeah xbox just buy smaller studios from now on

itsmebryan126d ago

They would have to. Not many bigger than what they already bought.

just_looken125d ago (Edited 125d ago )

They could buy sony easily.

Sony net worth a tiny 112 billion were as microsoft this year has tipped over a net worth of 2.5 trillion.

Toss sony 120 billion make that up in a years profit easily bam no competition.

They made 51 billion every quarter on average this year that is pocket profit
https://www.microsoft.com/e...

jznrpg126d ago (Edited 126d ago )

Or try to manage the ton of studios MS already has without ruining them.

itsmebryan125d ago

@jznrpg

Have seen what Sony has done to insomniac. They made it into a Marvel only sweatshop till at least 2031+ while wanting them to layoff people. Talk about how to ruin a developer.

shinoff2183124d ago

Itsmebryan

Just curious how do you know insomniac didn't wanna take that on? those marvel games while not what I personally want they sell , they sell a sh ton.

This isn't like how ms ruined rare

Darkegg125d ago

Or invest in studios like cuphead who could have gone .. supply them with the investment and grow them.

GamerRN126d ago

The FTC needs to stop wasting tax payer money! This is a fight that's already been decided. They are literally doing nothing good for the US, for video gamers, or for business as a whole.

Str8Chaos74126d ago

Totally agree. Not to mention it is a very corrupt organization.

esherwood126d ago

For real. And it’s not like they’re protecting small businesses or anything. Xbox only competition is Sony a Japanese company so wtf are they so hell bent on crippling an American company

shinoff2183124d ago

You made the point yourself. Sony is a smaller business and right now the thing stopping ms from being a monopoly.

Also figure I'd add Sony is headquartered in america so that's gotta count for something , just cause it didn't originate in america.

If Sony leaves gaming ms is the only player in town. Most people with ps wouldn't go to Nintendo they'd have to buy a xbox unless they go pc.

RAFTECH26126d ago

A bunch of disagrees but no real comments.

FTC is wasting/burning money!

1Victor126d ago

@raft:” A bunch of disagrees but no real comments.”
What’s the point to reply to unhinged comments that sound politically motivated and get a soft ban.
All I have to say about this is that what the FTC is asking for is normal and Microsoft shouldn’t have anything to hide if they acted in good faith.
Bellow is what the FTC is asking for.

Corporate testimony about terms that were proposed but not included in the final Ubisoft Agreement.
Corporate testimony about the alternatives to the Ubisoft Agreement that Respondents considered.
Corporate testimony from Activision on all but three noticed topics.
Any documents or corporate testimony about Respondents’ own agreement to extend their merger’s timing, which was a necessary precondition to reaching the Ubisoft Agreement.

All of those are interesting points except for the last one to a lesser extent.

S2Killinit125d ago (Edited 125d ago )

Yeah they should let large corporations buy up everything.

GamerRN125d ago

Victor, why would any of this be relevant? They already had their argument shot down, and Microsoft's new streaming deal only makes it a lesser issue, not a greater one.

The deal will not be blocked. It's a waste of tax payer money.

MrDead125d ago

When you have MS money you buy success and influence, f**k everyone else.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein8h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii4h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo3h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows903h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

qalpha4h ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno4h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan3h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno3h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19813h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

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Media Molecule’s Next Game is Going to be a New IP

A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.

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Inverno23h ago

The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno4h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga23h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

TheColbertinator18h ago

Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.

Stopac16h ago

I too like to look for things in the wrong places.

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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto2d ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger881d 21h ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb19811d 7h ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein1d 6h ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.