{"id":165758,"date":"2022-12-23T02:07:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T02:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/microsoft-responds-to-ftc-attempt-to-block-activision-blizzard-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T02:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T02:07:04","slug":"microsoft-responds-to-ftc-attempt-to-block-activision-blizzard-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/microsoft-responds-to-ftc-attempt-to-block-activision-blizzard-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft responds to FTC attempt to block Activision Blizzard deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1\">Microsoft<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>  on Thursday filed its response to US regulators&#8217; antitrust case attempting to block the software maker from buying video-game publisher <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-3\">Activision Blizzard<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission&#8217;s challenge to the proposed $68.7 billion acquisition stands out as the biggest government pushback Microsoft has dealt with on home turf since facing off against the Justice Department two decades ago over the dominance of Windows in the operating system market.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ExclusiveContentBucket-exclusiveContentBucket\"><span class=\"ExclusiveContentBucket-smallSpan\"\/><span class=\"ExclusiveContentBucket-border\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"ExclusiveContentBucket-exclusiveContentHeading\">related investing news<\/h2>\n<div class=\"ExclusiveContentBucket-contentContainer\">\n<div class=\"BucketItem-bucketItem\" id=\"Regular Article-ExclusiveContentBucket-1-0\">\n<div class=\"BucketItem-bucketImageContainer\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"BucketItem-investingClubPillContainer\"><img class=\"BucketItem-investingClubPill InvestingClubPill-investingClubPill\" src=\"https:\/\/static-redesign.cnbcfm.com\/dist\/b0b683565c27c5457864.svg\" alt=\"CNBC Investing Club\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Under President Donald Trump, Google&#8217;s umbrella company Alphabet, Apple, Amazon and Facebook parent Meta all faced inquiries from US competition officials.  That left Microsoft to go about its business and continue expanding with acquisitions through the election of President Joe Biden, even after Biden&#8217;s appointee, technology critic Lina Khan, took over at the FTC.  But then Microsoft revealed its plan to buy Activision Blizzard.  On Dec.  8 the FTC argued that the transaction would violate federal law.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even with confidence in our case, we remain committed to creative solutions with regulators that will protect competition, consumers, and workers in the tech sector,&#8221; Brad Smith, Microsoft&#8217;s president and vice chair, said in a statement provided to CNBC.  &#8220;As we&#8217;ve learned from our arguments in the past, the door never closes on the opportunity to find an agreement that can benefit everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To relieve government opposition to the deal, Microsoft has offered concessions.<\/p>\n<p>In October Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft&#8217;s gaming unit, said Microsoft had committed to bringing Activision Blizzard&#8217;s Call of Duty games to Nintendo consoles for a decade and keeping the games on Valve&#8217;s Steam game store.  Microsoft has also offered to sign a 10-year agreement with <span class=\"QuoteInBody-quoteNameContainer\" data-test=\"QuoteInBody\" id=\"RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-9\">Sony<span class=\"QuoteInBody-inlineButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistContainer\" id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\" data-analytics-id=\"-WatchlistDropdown\"><button class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-watchlistButton\"><span class=\"AddToWatchlistButton-addWatchListFromTag\"\/><\/button><\/span><\/span><\/span>  to release Call of Duty games on PlayStation consoles on the same day they reach Microsoft Xbox consoles.  &#8220;Sony refuses to deal,&#8221; Microsoft said in its filing.<\/p>\n<p>Activision Blizzard has not made its new games available through subscription services such as Microsoft&#8217;s Game Pass, and the acquisition would make playing Activision Blizzard&#8217;s games more affordable, Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The acquisition of a single game by the third-place console manufacturer cannot upend a highly competitive industry,&#8221; Microsoft said in its response.  &#8220;That is particularly so when the manufacturer has made clear it will not withhold the game. The fact that Xbox&#8217;s dominant competitor has thus far refused to accept Xbox&#8217;s proposal does not justify blocking a transaction that will benefit consumers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said that after taking almost a year to investigate the deal and examining millions of documents from Activision Blizzard and Microsoft, the FTC has not shown evidence that Microsoft is looking to yank the game series from PlayStation.  Ensuring the games will be widely available is good for business, the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the US, Brazil gave the OK for the deal to proceed, while the United Kingdom has been scrutinizing it.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft pushed back on several of the FTC&#8217;s assertions. <\/p>\n<p>For example, the FTC said in its argument that Microsoft had promised the European Commission that it wouldn&#8217;t have a motivation to prevent people from playing games from ZeniMax, a game publisher Microsoft acquired in 2021, on consoles other than the Xbox, but after receiving approval for the ZeniMax deal from the European Commission, the company said it would be making some ZeniMax games exclusive. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The European Commission agrees it was not misled, stating publicly the day after the complaint that Microsoft did not make any &#8216;commitments&#8217; to the European Commission,&#8221; Microsoft said, &#8220;nor did the European Commission &#8216;rely on any statements made by Microsoft about the future distribution strategy concerning ZeniMax&#8217;s games.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Members of the public sent more than 2,100 emails to the UK&#8217;s Competition and Markets Authority in response to a statement from the agency describing three ways the deal could lessen competition.  Around 75% of the emails expressed support for the acquisition, the agency said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal does close, Microsoft would be &#8220;the world&#8217;s number three gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony,&#8221; Spencer said on a conference call on the day of the deal announcement.<\/p>\n<p>In the months since then, two groups of Activision Blizzard employees have voted to form unions.  Microsoft has said it&#8217;s committed to efforts that would make it easier for employees to decide on whether to join or start a union.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is breaking news.  Please check back for updates.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong> Gaming to benefit from being largely platform agnostic, says Cowen&#8217;s Doug Creutz<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft on Thursday filed its response to US regulators&#8217; antitrust case attempting to block the software maker from buying video-game publisher Activision Blizzard. 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