So about that Call of Duty post...
The largest objection to the Microsoft / Activision merger has been levied in the home country of the two monoliths.
The United Stated Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted 3-2 today to proceed with a lawsuit blocking the $68.7b buyout of the Call of Duty / Warcraft / Candy Crush publisher by Microsoft. Although the deal was cleared in some smaller jurisdictions, competition bodies in the US, UK, and European Union have all raised objections.
The suit alleges that allowing the acquisition would harm competition in the industry, and was rumored prior to the US Thanksgiving weekend.
Maybe it's because I just don't care about Activision, but I don't see the big deal. Microsoft will leverage Activision as an exclusive studio? Okay? Every company has their exclusive studios. If I were Activision and I wanted this deal to go through, I'd just say "Well, we're not going to make any more Playstation games anyway". I don't think they can be compelled by the legal system to do so?
>Call of Duty alone makes more money than all of Sony's 1st party studios' games in a given year combined, and by a significant margin.
I mean, okay... but that's a Sony problem?