FTC really screwed themselves over building their arguments in the courtroom.
Right at the beginning of the announcement, Spencer appeared in an interview talking about it and started listing old ActiBlizz IP that the company owned, but did nothing with, saying that it would be cool to bring some of those franchises back.
There’s no way you can argue against that. Bringing more games to consumers was always Microsoft’s argument for the deal going through.
I mean…a giant corporation is always going to get what it wants, so I’m not surprised the deal will close. However, the FTC clearly had no idea what they were doing and attacked this case from the worst angle possible by focusing on COD and honestly seemed like their goal was to protect Sony as the market leader rather than protect consumers from Microsoft’s eventual future stranglehold on cloud gaming and gaming subscription services
The FTCs whole argument was “But what about Sony?! This will hurt Sony!!!”. It was amateur hour and honestly it should result in a broom going through the FTCs upper ranks, starting with Khan.
I’m surprised the FTC even tried tbh
You shouldn’t be with Khan as their head. She’s way out of her depth and seems intent on picking every fight she can with “big tech” based purely on her ideology, not on facts.
