Deal was originally due to complete yesterday, termination fee raised to a $4.5 billion

  • JeremyT@lemmy.teaisatfour.com
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    1 year ago

    Not a surprise. They still have to deal with the UK I think? As much as I don’t like a giant corp getting more giant, I hope Xbox cleans house at Activision Blizzard and does some good to the IPs they have.

    Not holding my breath tho.

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      Yeah, they’ve offered to sell off the UK game streaming rights to appease UK regulators, but no word on if they’ve gotten a response. They’re lucky they’ve gotten that, but the UK game streaming market is probably so miniscule that Microsoft doesn’t really care anyway. It’s a drop in lake Baikal in terms of the revenue ABK will bring in elsewhere.

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        Thanks for that! Hadn’t seen what came of the initial ruling over there. Yeah it will be a few years until streaming is more of a viable option. Latency, stability, and trust aren’t there yet for the general public. Especially after Google killed off stadia.