{"id":11980,"date":"2023-03-24T20:13:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T19:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/uks-watchdog-changed-its-mind-about-microsoft-buyingi-activision-blizzard\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T21:05:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T20:05:37","slug":"uks-watchdog-changed-its-mind-about-microsoft-buyingi-activision-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2023\/03\/24\/uks-watchdog-changed-its-mind-about-microsoft-buyingi-activision-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#039;s watchdog changed its mind about Microsoft buyingi Activision Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a year ago, Microsoft moved to buy Activision Blizzard, and that drama is still going on to this day. Many organizations see this as a huge anti-competitive move on the company\u2019s part. Well, according to Engadget, the Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) seems to have changed its stance on whether Microsoft should buy Activision Blizzard.<br \/>\nThis is one of the biggest video game purchases to date, and it could have a ton of implications as far as the gaming industry is concerned. This is why this case didn\u2019t only attract the attention of the American government. In the UK, the CMA started looking into this deal last year to see if it was going to negatively affect the gaming market.<br \/>\nThe CMA doesn\u2019t believe that Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard is a bad thing<br \/>\nThe CMA started looking into this deal back in July of last year, and it wanted to see if this purchase would negatively impact the gaming industry. Buying this company would mean that Microsoft would hold the reins on Call of Duty, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, Diablo, and many many more franchises.<br \/>\nMany people fear that these franchises would eventually be Xbox exclusives. While that most likely won\u2019t be the case, it\u2019s still a scary thought that such a large chunk of the gaming market would be under one roof.<br \/>\nHowever, it seems that the CMA doesn\u2019t see anything wrong with the merger. The organization believes that any damage done by the deal will be minimal. A major component of the deal (and the controversy) is Call of Duty. This is the biggest franchise owned by Activision Blizzard.<br \/>\nA lot of the conversation circles around whether Microsoft will yank Call of Duty off of the PlayStation storefront. But, the CMA acknowledged that, while a move like that could hurt the PlayStation\u2019s appeal, it won\u2019t sufficiently harm Sony\u2019s consoles. Sony has a notable lead in the console gaming market with its PS5 selling in high volume.<br \/>\nThe US still has some reservations<br \/>\nSo, Microsoft has a little bit of the weight off of its back. The CMA isn\u2019t looking to block the deal, but that doesn\u2019t mean that there aren\u2019t any more obstacles. The United States Federal Trade Commission is still suing Microsoft so that the deal doesn\u2019t go through. This lawsuit has been going on for some time, and we don\u2019t know when we\u2019re going to see the end of it.<br \/>\nThe post UK&#8217;s watchdog changed its mind about Microsoft buyingi Activision Blizzard appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a year ago, Microsoft moved to buy Activision Blizzard, and that drama is still going on to this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":11981,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11982,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11980\/revisions\/11982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}