Only one thing still stands in the way of Microsoft's Activision takeover:
, and other massive gaming franchises remains to be seen. The CMA is now threatening that any changes to Microsoft’s terms for the deal in the UK could require an entirely new investigation which would presumably take several months beyond the current July 18 deadline for the acquisition.
on Game Pass and xCloud. Instead of making the hit shooter series available on those services in that market, it could agree to pull it from the UK version of them. That would potentially address the CMA’s core concerns aboutbeing used to give Microsoft a monopoly in cloud gaming. Now the question is whether the company can offer something like that without starting the entire review process over from scratch.
Microsoft executives had previously suggested that any more delays at this juncture would essentially kill the Activision merger. They had alsothat they might be willing to push forward with the deal without the CMA’s approval and simply pull Activision Blizzard games from the UK market entirely. Both would be drastic measures, even for one of the largest tech mergers in history.
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