“Microsoft Struggles to Acquire Activision Blizzard Amid Termination Fee Concerns, CEO Bobby Kotick’s Fate Uncertain”

Jakarta –

Struggle Microsoft to be able to acquire Activision Blizzard it feels so hard. If they fail to buy this video game giant, they will have to pay termination fees of up to tens of trillions of rupiah.

Microsoft’s loss was conveyed directly by the CEO of Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick. He revealed that his company would receive USD 3 billion or around IDR 44.1 trillion if the acquisition was not successful.

This news emerged after the blocking was carried out by the relevant British authorities Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision. The reason, they are concerned that it will negatively impact the future of cloud gaming, as reported by detikINET from The GamerTuesday (2/5/2023).

However, it looks like this will be bad news for workers Activision. If the deal is not reached, Kotick will remain CEO.

From the information circulating, Kotic will only step down as CEO, if Activision Blizzard join Microsoft. This issue is bad news for workers, because during his leadership there were often controversies.

Especially with the previous case, Kotick was involved in allegations of harassment within the company. In fact, more than 1,500 employees are calling for Kotick to resign in 2021, but he still holds the ball.

It is still unknown how the end of the story between the two. This is because recently their relationship was hindered by the blessing of the British authorities.

UK CMA said, Microsoft considered to have failed to provide a solution regarding concerns over the impact of the acquisition. They assume that games Call of Duty which will be exclusive in Xbox illogical.

“Microsoft has a strong position in cloud gaming services and the evidence available to CMA suggests that Microsoft would find it commercially advantageous to make Activision games exclusive to its own cloud gaming service,” he said.

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