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Each competition authority has their own criteria. But in this case, it will meaningfully reduce competition. For some reason UK's CMA only considered cloud ga
by sofixa 3y ago
Each competition authority has their own criteria.
But in this case, it will meaningfully reduce competition. For some reason UK's CMA only considered cloud gaming, which is a weird fixation. Maybe because it's an emerging market?
If all Activison Blizzard games become Xbox exclusive will reduce competition and screw consumers, yet that was dropped as a concern for who knows what reason.
- rsynnott 3y agoLikely because they thought it was the one they were most likely to be able to win; these are usually pretty narrowly focused.
- Sakos 3y agoI just don't see how it meaningfully reduces competition. This barely moves the needle. If I look at the top sellers on Steam, the vast majority are not Activision Blizzard.
- k12sosse 3y agoYou mean the games that are sold on battle.net aren't being tracked by steam?
- Sakos 3y agoSo you'd rather just miss the point, ok. It doesn't matter how much revenue Battle.net makes for them. The multitude of developers and publishers that are successful on Steam show that AB is irrelevant to the market. If AB owned a significant number of the top 50, it'd be a different story, but they don't.
- r00fus 3y agoNever ignore corruption as a possible reason. Microsoft and the UK government are very chummy.