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Court denies FTC’s last-ditch attempt to stop Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard
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this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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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.