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Microsoft / Activision Deal Approval Watch |OT| (MS/ABK close)
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Dick Jones
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Remember when we were told ABK was bought to get rid of Bobby. I can't wait to see the defence for Kotick if it happens.
mansoor1980
Gold Member
brad smith using the mainstream media now , microsoft money hat has started to roll.
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GHG
Member
Seems like he's calmed down a lot since threatening UK national security.
Sounds fantastic. We were told repeatedly that the most important thing is to free Activision and it's employees from Bobby so that works as well.
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Dick Jones
Gold Member
feynoob
Member
Don't.
How else can we have a vampire CEO?
MasterCornholio
Member
Good point. Disregard my comment.
feynoob
Member
Chances are the same as me getting in bed with the hottest model.
Corporate don't give a crap about laws.
Microsoft set to face EU antitrust probe over video calls
Software giant back in EU sights over its Teams video and messaging service.
www.politico.eu
GHG
Member
No no no, just from activision. We need to save their employees.
DeepEnigma
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Banjo64
cumsessed
Alongside ‘yay for worker’s rights’ right before Microsoft made 10,000 people redundant. It’s almost an art form to put your foot in your own mouth at every turn.
Pelta88
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"Activision can still be successful without Microsoft." - Bobby Kotic
www.eurogamer.net
Acceptance.
Activision never had "systemic issue with harassment", says CEO Bobby Kotick
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has stated the company has never had a "systemic issue with harassment" in a new interview …
www.eurogamer.net
Acceptance.
GHG
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"Activision can still be successful without Microsoft." - Bobby Kotic
Activision never had "systemic issue with harassment", says CEO Bobby Kotick
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has stated the company has never had a "systemic issue with harassment" in a new interview …
Acceptance.
Said it before, but no matter what happens now he doesn't lose.
Masterfully engineered.
Topher
Gold Member
"Activision can still be successful without Microsoft." - Bobby Kotic
Activision never had "systemic issue with harassment", says CEO Bobby Kotick
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has stated the company has never had a "systemic issue with harassment" in a new interview …
Acceptance.
"I am not like other CEOs that are anti-union," said Kotick. "I'm the only Fortune 500 CEO who's a member of a union. "
DeepEnigma
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Edmund
Member
Bobby is so ugly lol. If I look like him, I'd kill myself."Activision can still be successful without Microsoft." - Bobby Kotic
Activision never had "systemic issue with harassment", says CEO Bobby Kotick
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has stated the company has never had a "systemic issue with harassment" in a new interview …
Acceptance.
Kilau
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James Sawyer Ford
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Topic wasn’t really about the Microsoft deal as much as it was him basically saying there were no workplace culture issues.
Interesting to see how this plays out for him
Interesting to see how this plays out for him
feynoob
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MasterCornholio
Member
If Bobby had a magic mirror it would kill itself.
Bobby: Mirror mirror on the wall am i the fairest of them all?
Mirror: Um
Bobby: Oh mirror.
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demigod
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Now MS can use that to blame ACTI on the deal not going thru for the payout.
IFireflyl
Gold Member
No. That isn't a blatant breach of the "stay strong" agreement. If he had said, "We would be better off without Microsoft," then there would be a problem.
EDIT: I responded to this without reading what you quoted, and I thought you were talking about something else. I am an idiot.
Having said that, this still isn't a breech of anything in the Microsoft/Activision contract that Microsoft could use to wiggle out of the $3 billion.
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graywolf323
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maybe they should have done that when CMA told them so instead of now?
because prior to this they just kept pushing those 10-year deals which the CMA saw right through & had already told them weren’t good enough
FUBARx89
Member
Chances are the same as me getting in bed with the hottest model.
Corporate don't give a crap about laws.
Microsoft set to face EU antitrust probe over video calls
Software giant back in EU sights over its Teams video and messaging service.
Am only getting that from what's been said in here. Did they honestly say that?
Cause it's not like the UK is ignoring any laws with it. Just blows my mind. Especially after the giant dummy spitting Kotick & Smith did after initial block. Not respecting the UK process and going full on fuck them and fuck that country mode.
feynoob
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feynoob
Member
MS biggest obstacle is the renogation. After that, they need to overcome the original decision. Then try and to get appropriate remedy in order to get it approved. All of that, while racing the dead of the deal.
CMA can delay their decisions as long as they want to and drag MS appeal.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
And the corporate media will give him the platform, not pushback on it, and carry the water. They virtue signal and play the population for fools.
They thought their lobbying and PR hubris could impact the UK and its fully independent (so far) regulators.
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James Sawyer Ford
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harry mason 1989
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Handsome BobbyHow about now?
GHG
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How about now?
Someone should send this to Bobby. Should serve as motivation to hit the gym and get a decent haircut.
With his money there would be no stopping him.
Dick Jones
Gold Member
Am I sexual (predator)
James Sawyer Ford
Member
Such a weird turn of events, with Phil saying he was deeply troubled by Activision
Workplace culture…
And now Bobby is denying it entirely??
Workplace culture…
And now Bobby is denying it entirely??
PaintTinJr
Member
My memory is fading on the CMC from yesterday, so running out of material... 
but, my last observation was when the judge was discussing with ATVI's counsel as an intervener the issue of them and Microsoft potentially duplicating submissions adding to unnecessary paperwork, and ATVI's counsel and Beard were saying all the right things, giving off the impression they were fully aligned, and then it all looked a bit weird for a minute when the judge effectively told them to operate as one submission. To me it seemed like the body language of the two leading counsels changed immediately.
It was like they'd been asked to dance with their sister and initially it seemed like it was because they each have a client and it was about their duty to the client and billing, but in the minutes that followed when they'd worked out how they were going to use a word document, the body language and angle of each counsel to each other looked more adversarial IMO than before, and only at that point did I realise the guy that was sat very close on the CMA first chair's left side - throughout - was maybe ATVI counsel and not CMA.
IMO it also felt like Beard's Eu expertise and reference to the electronic document system that the EU use for tribunals, he said should be used for this tribunal went down like a lead balloon with the UK CAT judge. IMO Beard only fully recovered his Britishness stature with the judge when the discussion of tribunal wording of England & Wales, and the absence of Scotland and Northern Ireland came up,- Beard legally asserted the tribunal decision would be for all of the UK and the judge could legal decide either way.
The part of the CMC I missed slightly and didn't then understand was the comment about the "potential car crash" comment from the judge to the CMA counsel about the public information versus confidentiality/disclosure being his "car crash" and wondered if this was why Beard became slightly more tense, if the confidentiality/disclosure issue was actually his client's exposure, or if it was something completely different. I only wondered that, because the CMA counsel look completely at ease after the judge was taking ownership.
but, my last observation was when the judge was discussing with ATVI's counsel as an intervener the issue of them and Microsoft potentially duplicating submissions adding to unnecessary paperwork, and ATVI's counsel and Beard were saying all the right things, giving off the impression they were fully aligned, and then it all looked a bit weird for a minute when the judge effectively told them to operate as one submission. To me it seemed like the body language of the two leading counsels changed immediately.
It was like they'd been asked to dance with their sister and initially it seemed like it was because they each have a client and it was about their duty to the client and billing, but in the minutes that followed when they'd worked out how they were going to use a word document, the body language and angle of each counsel to each other looked more adversarial IMO than before, and only at that point did I realise the guy that was sat very close on the CMA first chair's left side - throughout - was maybe ATVI counsel and not CMA.
IMO it also felt like Beard's Eu expertise and reference to the electronic document system that the EU use for tribunals, he said should be used for this tribunal went down like a lead balloon with the UK CAT judge. IMO Beard only fully recovered his Britishness stature with the judge when the discussion of tribunal wording of England & Wales, and the absence of Scotland and Northern Ireland came up,- Beard legally asserted the tribunal decision would be for all of the UK and the judge could legal decide either way.
The part of the CMC I missed slightly and didn't then understand was the comment about the "potential car crash" comment from the judge to the CMA counsel about the public information versus confidentiality/disclosure being his "car crash" and wondered if this was why Beard became slightly more tense, if the confidentiality/disclosure issue was actually his client's exposure, or if it was something completely different. I only wondered that, because the CMA counsel look completely at ease after the judge was taking ownership.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
They sure did. Even offered him a sweetheart deal for the "deeply disturbing and horrific events and actions."
Just introduce yourself via pronouns on Teams, all is forgiven then.
Varteras
Gold Member
My memory is fading on the CMC from yesterday, so running out of material...
but, my last observation was when the judge was discussing with ATVI's counsel as an intervener the issue of them and Microsoft potentially duplicating submissions adding to unnecessary paperwork, and ATVI's counsel and Beard were saying all the right things, giving off the impression they were fully aligned, and then it all looked a bit weird for a minute when the judge effectively told them to operate as one submission. To me it seemed like the body language of the two leading counsels changed immediately.
It was like they'd been asked to dance with their sister and initially it seemed like it was because they each have a client and it was about their duty to the client and billing, but in the minutes that followed when they'd worked out how they were going to use a word document, the body language and angle of each counsel to each other looked more adversarial IMO than before, and only at that point did I realise the guy that was sat very close on the CMA first chair's left side - throughout - was maybe ATVI counsel and not CMA.
IMO it also felt like Beard's Eu expertise and reference to the electronic document system that the EU use for tribunals, he said should be used for this tribunal went down like a lead balloon with the UK CAT judge. IMO Beard only fully recovered his Britishness stature with the judge when the discussion of tribunal wording of England & Wales, and the absence of Scotland and Northern Ireland came up,- Beard legally asserted the tribunal decision would be for all of the UK and the judge could legal decide either way.
The part of the CMC I missed slightly and didn't then understand was the comment about the "potential car crash" comment from the judge to the CMA counsel about the public information versus confidentiality/disclosure being his "car crash" and wondered if this was why Beard became slightly more tense, if the confidentiality/disclosure issue was actually his client's exposure, or if it was something completely different. I only wondered that, because the CMA counsel look completely at ease after the judge was taking ownership.
Jesus Christ. Are you an interrogation expert by trade? Past life? Moonlighting?
GHG
Member
That was nothing more than underhand tactics to further depress the stock price.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
mansoor1980
Gold Member
thank the lord , it is finally over
Umm...super weird update...given the tone of the previous internal mails he wrote even when CMA actually blocked the deal...
Maybe the lawyer was not bluffing yesterday when he stated that delays in the appeal process could jeopardize the deal.
Edit: Just noticed this is old, anyway he just reaffirmed the concept in today's interview with Variety:
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
nikolino840
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So without the 10-years deals the cloud market could be better stronger and faster?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
ABK is free to make deals on their own while remaining third party (like they do now), without a sole gatekeeper consolidating the industry.
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feynoob
Member
Nah. MS would dominate the market with it without Activision. And they will carry those markets with their games.
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