The purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft continues to give people something to talk about, and as if it were a novel, we already have the new chapter, although this time it seems that Chinese developers would be in favor of, or at least not against, Microsoft’s purchase. While Activision’s market share in China is not very large, the developers have told the China State Administration for Market Regulation that they do not believe the deal will cause significant competition problems.
This report comes as regulators in the US, UK and the European Union They are still immersed in their investigations. about how the purchase would affect the world video game market. Do not remind you that the FTC filed a lawsuit to block the purchase saying that the agreement would allow Microsoft to suppress competition thanks to its console and the services it could offer.
Microsoft’s purchase of Activision Blizzard gets the nod from Chinese developers
Sony, the biggest retractor of the agreement, met last Wednesday with the EU’s antitrust director, Margrethe Vestager, to discuss the agreement and the damages that would be for Playstation. In the same way, Microsoft has received a formal statement of objections from the European Union and the UK Competition and Markets Authority is expected to do the same and provide its conclusions in the coming days.
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As you can see, the purchase of Activision Blizzard by Microsoft continues to give people something to talk about and more and more support is received by developers and publishers throughout the world. In the same way, Microsoft accuses Sony to hide information and lie about the exclusivity of Call of Duty on Xbox or about the performance on Playstation, which they assume will be worse than on Xbox, something that Microsoft has categorically denied, even agreeing to a 10-year agreement on equal terms with regard to Call of Duty.