Microsoft is facing yet more opposition to its planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Not from Sony this time, nor the FTC, but a group of 10 aggrieved Call of Duty fans, who have filed a lawsuit
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Microsoft is facing yet more opposition to its planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Not from Sony this time, nor the FTC, but a group of 10 aggrieved Call of Duty fans, who have filed a lawsuit (opens in new tab) (via Reuters (opens in new tab)) opposing the deal.
The lawsuit echoes some of the points made by the FTC (opens in new tab) in its opposition to the acquisition, filed earlier this month: That „there are only several independent game publishers in the world that are capable of making the highest production quality and most graphics-intensive videogames that can be mass marketed and are highly anticipated among gamers,“ and that increasing consolidation of those companies is bad for gamers, employees, and the business world as a whole.
The suit also repeats a claim made in the FTC’s lawsuit that Microsoft intentionally lied ahead of its 2021 acquisition of Bethesda Softworks, when it promised European regulators that it „would not have the incentive to cease or limit making [Bethesda parent company] ZeniMax games available for purchase on rival consoles.
