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| broodwars:
--- Quote from: UncleBob on April 27, 2023, 07:17:50 PM --->The Activision Blizzard stockholders would revolt at shutting out the most popular consoles on the market and the board of directors would probably fire the leadership at the next stockholder's meeting, but it would be perfectly legal albeit still subject to scrutiny from the various governments for potential antitrust violations. Why would Activision shareholders be okay with selling to Microsoft for $69B, but not signing an exclusive agreement with them for $69B? --- End quote --- Microsoft made a lot of promises when they declared their intent to purchase Activision, such as supporting all the consoles and a bunch of cloud platforms no one's ever heard of for at least 10 years. Granted, they were promises I don't think they ever intended to keep, but promises nonetheless. If Microsoft were to purchase sole exclusivity of all Acti-Blizzard titles, that's shutting out at least 60% of the market to prop up a failing console manufacturer. On the one hand, you're looking at $69 billion up-front with the promise of even more money later and golden parachutes and MS stock options for everyone involved, and on the other hand you're looking at $69 billion to exclusively support the weakest console manufacturer while having none of the protections that come with being owned by one of the biggest companies in the world. |
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