"Owning Activision Blizzards’ catalog of games would make a material difference in the industry, providing Microsoft’s gaming platforms a significant competitive advantage," the gamers' lawsuit states."The proposed acquisition would give Microsoft an unrivalled position in the gaming industry, leaving it with the greatest number of must-have games and iconic franchises.
"Currently, Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation systems compete vigorously with one another. Foreclosing Activision Blizzard titles from appearing on PlayStation would harm competition between Xbox and PlayStation." The suit asks the court to declare that the planned acquisition is a violation of the Clayton Antitrust Act, and to permanently block it; it also calls for the plaintiffs' costs and legal fees to be covered. If I were a betting man, I'd say that's unlikely to happen.
And because I know someone is going to ask: Of the 10 plaintiffs in the lawsuit, six list a PlayStation as their only console, excluding one who also has a Nintendo Switch.Sign up to get the best content of the week, and great gaming deals, as picked by the editors.Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors
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should be prohibited for Sony and Microsoft to acquire more studios. Both of them have more then enough studios. It should prohibited 3rd party exclusive deals for Sony and Microsoft. It simply takes away games from many gamers on other platforms.
Angry sony fanboys*
Suicide mission right there
I wish microsoft would just disapear they dont even make good games and try to buy everything. Gaming was better before they got involved
Kinda tired of seeing anything related to this deal
I guess CoD players want the company to continue being shit then so they can complain year after year.
Picture of the litigants trying to halt the acquisition of Activision by Microsoft.
Activision Blizzard need the acquisition, hopefully new leadership will do the company some good. Place is a toxic hole at the moment
Goof grief people, Blizzard NEEDS Microsoft to survive. Ask anyone who works there. 😀
I wish they'd spin off StarCraft to do its own thing. Under Activision, it feels like StarCraft has been mostly ignored and that's literally the only thing Blizzard makes that I care about. However, StarCraft Remastered was good I must admit.
Microsoft countersue gamers for legal expenses. To get the money from the gamers the court can garnish their salaries at 10% for the rest of their lives
These people are pathetic.
Snoytards
i read 'sony' all over this story
there should just be a law that if a studio is owned by a game console then 70-80% of the consoles games must be multiplatform. they can have a few exclusives but cant destroy competition completely. because dont get it wrong xbox would make everything exclusive to kill sony
Give it a rest ... just let it happen. Just like you did the first time you got laid.
LMAO, the ultimate crybabies!
Good thing this isn't Microsoft because they would be so pissed
we’re really letting 10 COD gamers dictate the market? yikes
idk activision already was the worst and money hungry possible company, what can happen?
Im gonna go on limb and say most are playstation players lol. As a pc player i could give two shits about xbox aka little brother, controlling COD. What makes this even more halarious if it is playstation players is their constant bragging how there better via exclusives lolol
Let them have COD and all the crap that comes from this company. Seriously there is much better out there
this ain't to claim it's facts, No on should OWN Activision a.k.a COD
What a bunch of whiners!
If MS buys AB today, sony would still be the market leader by a country mile. This isn't about concentrating too much power into one company, this is just a bunch of ponys not wanting to lessen Sonys market dominance. Competition be damned.
If Microsoft buy's Activision Sony needs to buy two publishers as well
Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard is the best thing that cud happen for the entire gaming industry. It’s literally our last hope of restoring Blizzard to the developer that gamers believe them to be. If you think it’s false. There’s an Age of Empires 4 and a broken Warcraft 3.
I can't wait for this deal to close. My GamePassUltimate sub is waiting.
that's just stupid...sorry but owning call of duty will not give them power they will just own a mega i.p. that makes a lot of money and has a lot of fans. call of duty is still a growing player base. activision does have HEXEN which would be great if raven and i.d. could work on
Like sony doesn't have without even buy paying Studio and developer money to keep their Games out of game pass🤨🤔
If the sale doesn't go through because of Sony, does Sony think they won't just make an exclusive content partnership with MS moving forward? Clearly MS can buy the whole company. They can clearly pay for year long maps, exclusive guns and skins, as well as early access/betas.
lol
Let me guess - these so-called gamers are PlayStation users, aren't they? I like how they moan about a rival company purchasing a studio, while they laugh at everyone else when they get dozens of exclusives for their consoles, while other platforms don't. Irony hits hard!
This has to be the dumbest fucking thing I have ever seen...
There's no way Activision Blizzard can become any shittier.
I can’t understand why Xbox would pull Call of Duty off of PlayStation. They would make more money with it being on PlayStation then they do without. Besides, forcing people to buy a console just to play a game is Sonys Schlick. I know cause it’s worked on me every time.
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Lol. Poor legal advice. I hope they are paying a fist full of cash for this.
But they were okay with tencent owning parts of almost every game company in the industry? Like I get too much power is bad, I guess i personally would like to see the facts they have to prove this. And this is coming from a guy who streamed on platform that closed in a weekend.
They're all PS cod players, they try to hide it by listing other platforms they play on, but they really oust themselves with some of the outright incorrect and false statements in the statement. It won't go anywhere
These Extreme Sony Fanboys are really annoying. They themselves have had no problems with Playstation buying studios and having exclusive games, but once Xbox tries to do the same, it's suddenly a huge problem to these Sony stans.
Lol,what?
lel. you go gamers
I for one am a gamer who is angry that they are trying to Stop this acquisition. I assume the ones who are angry about the merger are Sony fan boys. Both companies have been buying up studios. Sony needs to develop a new Killzone if they are worried about losing Call of Duty.
Let me fix that title for ya. Angry PlayStation fanboys sue Microsoft to stop Activision Blizzard acquisition.
I wonder what the uneducated gamer fanboy club thinks about any government action against their favorite company. Let's go see!
Thrilling. So is it going through or not? It feels like I've had to listen to this same song and dance all year
Boy if only they made this much effort to stop sexual harassment in the industry.
Good
What the hell do they know.
If this is the case, no console maker should be able to acquire a studio/publisher. Both the Bethesda and Bungie deals should have been blocked on this basis.
Sony is the most anti competitive company out there and yet are the first to cry foul when someone wants to compete with them.
Okay. You do that
Imsoniac, Bungie?
Except Microsoft is doing alright with ActiBlizz imo. I got the game on Steam. I got to uninstall Blizznet. I am happy. It's the little things. Also Epic is garbage and deserved to get sued.
Lmao, PS gamer got themselves some cheap lawyers i see...
They have too much time and money apparently plus WTF 😂.
normally I'm anti-monopoly as well, but with Microsoft and ActiBlizz it's different In recent years MS has been far more pro-consumer and pro-employee than most companies, while ActiBlizz has been nothing but anti-consumer and anti-employee MS could save ActiBlizz for us
headline image is how they think they look lol
Okay cool, no exclusives. Spider-Man 2 & Ragnarok on pc when?
please pro consumer company, dont acquire a company riddled with sexual harassment cases and horribly made games and correct all its current issues. - anti consumer company fan
why your pfp square now
'Gamers'
Angry Sony Boys
This is just pathetic at this point.
Lol
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