The UK regulator initiallyover fears it would hand Microsoft a 60 to 70 percent share of the cloud gaming market, making it a monopoly player. That in turn would give it "incentive to withhold games from competitors and substantially weaken competition in this important growing market."Activision Blizzard streaming rights to Ubisoft in an attempt to win UK approval.
The revised deal "substantially addresses most concerns," the CMA wrote, but it still wants to ensure that provisions in the sale of Activision's cloud streaming rights to Ubisoft can't be "circumvented, terminated or not enforced." It added that Microsoft has offered remedies to ensure that those rights are enforceable, and those should resolve any residual concerns.
Microsoft managed to turn the deal around after taking a lot of blows from regulators. Late last year, the US Federal Trade Commission