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Blizzard president says a Diablo 4 Game Pass launch is “not happening” | PCGamesN (www.pcgamesn.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh it was approved? Goodie, more of the gaming industry gets vacuumed up into 2 companies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The CMA in the UK is still trying to block it. Appeal is in two weeks. That said, even if they were successful I get the feeling that MS would just do a business carve out in the UK and acquire ActiBlizz anyway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Based on my (admittedly limited) understanding of the situation, you're right. Microsoft have already hinted that if the UK interferes with the deal, theyd stop doing business there rather than pull out of the acquisition.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't that mean that the whole of UK ould no longer use Windows OS? That sounds like it would be incredibly damaging to its economy.

I guess another reason for why critical infrastructure shouldn't be based on proprietary stuff..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I believe the UK block only applies to the Xbox Gaming portion of Microsoft, but I dont know for sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On the upside, it would lead to vast improvements in national cyber security.