BREAKING NEWS: UK regulator suggests removing Call of Duty from Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition (TLHBFR!!!)

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Just now, Jerrys Hair Line said:

Not as hard as your hairline ran 

LOL he's now coming in late by TWO posts.

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1 minute ago, jehurey said:

LOL he's now coming in late by TWO posts.

You know what’s not coming in? Your hairline 

[jehurey 3,237]

Just now, Jerrys Hair Line said:

You know what’s not coming in?

An original post from you?

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19 minutes ago, jehurey said:

An original post from you?

He’s so angry I keep calling him out on it, it’s “old”, like him 

[jehurey 3,237]

1 minute ago, Jerrys Hair Line said:

He’s so angry I keep calling him out on it, it’s “old”, like him 

LOL he took 20 minutes to respond.......and he still couldn't think of anything

 

 

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1 hour ago, jehurey said:

LOL he took 20 minutes to respond.......and he still couldn't think of anything

 

 

He’s back to sitting around and waiting for my responses

[jehurey 3,237]

6 minutes ago, Jerrys Hair Line said:

He’s back to sitting around and waiting for my responses

He took even longer to come up with that failed swing and miss, as well.

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10 minutes ago, jehurey said:

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1 minute ago, Jerrys Hair Line said:

i even made him change his posting schedule, he literally has no control over anything.

 

....even his hair

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1 hour ago, jehurey said:

i even made him change his posting schedule, he literally has no control over anything.

 

....even his hair

I even made him sit around hitting f5 all night desperate for a reply. 
 

kinda like how he’s desperate for a new job so he can finally afford that hair transplant

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Just now, Jerrys Hair Line said:

I even made him sit around hitting f5 all night desperate for a reply. 
 

kinda like how he’s desperate for a new job so he can finally afford that hair transplant

he's too stupid to know that actual desktop browsers show notifications automatically in the bottom right

 

oh man, he's so stupid

 

he knows as much about browsing this forum as he knows about hair.......or owning a real bed

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7 hours ago, Cooke said:

Capitalistic societies don't like monopolies. It's bad for the consumer. That's part of the reason why there is a government.  A purely capitalist society wouldn't even need a government. Business would run everything with no rules or regulations keeping them in line. 

And would quickly become a handful of monopolies. I mean it kind of already has

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6 hours ago, jehurey said:

he's too stupid to know that actual desktop browsers show notifications automatically in the bottom right

 

oh man, he's so stupid

 

he knows as much about browsing this forum as he knows about hair.......or owning a real bed

He’s just sitting around, staring at his screen saying *please ghostz, please post”

 

kinda like how he stares in the mirror and says “please hair, please grow” 

 

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7 hours ago, Voidler said:

And would quickly become a handful of monopolies. I mean it kind of already has

Because politicians are easily bribed. 

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MS just made Sony look like clowns. If the deal does go through, I wouldn’t be surprised if COD is gone from PS based on Sony denying the deal.  
 

MS says that Sony's motion should be denied and provides 10 pages of arguments. MS says that:

- Sony has unleashed its executives and high-priced economists to petition the Commission, as well as regulators around the world, to block the transaction. MS mentions 4 redacted examples.

- Sony's campaign has worked because the Commission's theory of harm relies almost exclusively on the facially implausible claim that the acquisition is anticompetitive because Microsoft will withhold from Sony a single game (Call of Duty).

- Despite leading the charge to stop the transaction, Sony claims it should not be required to produce documents on the very topics it has put at issue.

- Sony should produce documents from Lin Tao and Hideaki Nishino because Tao is the key custodian with information about SIE's financial health and plans and Nishino is the head of SIE's hardware business, another topic of central importance.

- Sony relies on blanket assertions of privilege and the burden of reviewing McCurdy's files because he is a lawyer. But, according to his job posting, McCurdy is also responsible for SIE's public policy engagement.

- Sony has refused to provide a predecessor custodian for Christian Svensson, who manages SIE's relationship with Activision, even though Svensson has only been in his position since 2021. MS says that that relationship is of the upmost importance, and SIE has not supported its assertion that Svensson's manager would have the same documents as Svensson's predecessor.

- Regarding the requests for data about the performance of SIE's gaming business, Sony has not explained why pulling and producing data from its central files, without any need for responsiveness or privilege review, would be unduly burdensome.

- Requests 14(d) and 19 are about specific documents—valuations, board documents, and regulatory submissions—related to SIE's cloud-gaming acquisitions of Gaikai in 2012 and OnLive in 2015. MS says that providing targeted information about SIE's own cloud-gaming efforts is relevant to assessing the viability of that claim and is not unduly burdensome.

- Microsoft seeks performance reviews for SIE custodians. Microsoft is not seeking to embarrass SIE's leadership; it seeks to understand the metrics on which SIE's executives and business are evaluated.

- Request 35 seeks executed copies of content-licensing agreements between SIE and third- party gaming publishers. MS says that these contracts are relevant. Microsoft says that they are aware that PlayStation requires many third-party publishers to agree to exclusivity provisions, including preventing the publishers from putting their games on Xbox's multi-game subscription service. But that they do not fully understand the extent of SIE's arrangements or how they impact the industry's competitiveness.

- Microsoft requests that Sony produce documents that SIE submitted to these regulatory authorities in connection with this transaction. SIE has refused, agreeing only to produce submissions to the European Commission and United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority, based on claims of burden.

- Contrary to the allegation that Microsoft will make Call of Duty exclusive to Xbox, since announcing the deal, Microsoft has repeatedly offered to enter into an agreement to license Call of Duty to SIE—first for five years (this is new!) and then for ten, an unheard-of duration in the industry. SIE has refused. Microsoft seeks documents about these negotiations, including SIE's internal consideration of Microsoft's offers and why it has refused them.

- Request 14(f) seeks information about SIE's investment in virtual reality technology for its console, which SIE executives have highlighted as a strategic imperative and "a giant leap forward in the way we play games.

Edited February 16, 2023 by Jerrys Hair Line

[FIREPOWER 729]

39 minutes ago, Jerrys Hair Line said:

MS just made Sony look like clowns. If the deal does go through, I wouldn’t be surprised if COD is gone from PS based on Sony denying the deal.  
 

MS says that Sony's motion should be denied and provides 10 pages of arguments. MS says that:

- Sony has unleashed its executives and high-priced economists to petition the Commission, as well as regulators around the world, to block the transaction. MS mentions 4 redacted examples.

- Sony's campaign has worked because the Commission's theory of harm relies almost exclusively on the facially implausible claim that the acquisition is anticompetitive because Microsoft will withhold from Sony a single game (Call of Duty).

- Despite leading the charge to stop the transaction, Sony claims it should not be required to produce documents on the very topics it has put at issue.

- Sony should produce documents from Lin Tao and Hideaki Nishino because Tao is the key custodian with information about SIE's financial health and plans and Nishino is the head of SIE's hardware business, another topic of central importance.

- Sony relies on blanket assertions of privilege and the burden of reviewing McCurdy's files because he is a lawyer. But, according to his job posting, McCurdy is also responsible for SIE's public policy engagement.

- Sony has refused to provide a predecessor custodian for Christian Svensson, who manages SIE's relationship with Activision, even though Svensson has only been in his position since 2021. MS says that that relationship is of the upmost importance, and SIE has not supported its assertion that Svensson's manager would have the same documents as Svensson's predecessor.

- Regarding the requests for data about the performance of SIE's gaming business, Sony has not explained why pulling and producing data from its central files, without any need for responsiveness or privilege review, would be unduly burdensome.

- Requests 14(d) and 19 are about specific documents—valuations, board documents, and regulatory submissions—related to SIE's cloud-gaming acquisitions of Gaikai in 2012 and OnLive in 2015. MS says that providing targeted information about SIE's own cloud-gaming efforts is relevant to assessing the viability of that claim and is not unduly burdensome.

- Microsoft seeks performance reviews for SIE custodians. Microsoft is not seeking to embarrass SIE's leadership; it seeks to understand the metrics on which SIE's executives and business are evaluated.

- Request 35 seeks executed copies of content-licensing agreements between SIE and third- party gaming publishers. MS says that these contracts are relevant. Microsoft says that they are aware that PlayStation requires many third-party publishers to agree to exclusivity provisions, including preventing the publishers from putting their games on Xbox's multi-game subscription service. But that they do not fully understand the extent of SIE's arrangements or how they impact the industry's competitiveness.

- Microsoft requests that Sony produce documents that SIE submitted to these regulatory authorities in connection with this transaction. SIE has refused, agreeing only to produce submissions to the European Commission and United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority, based on claims of burden.

- Contrary to the allegation that Microsoft will make Call of Duty exclusive to Xbox, since announcing the deal, Microsoft has repeatedly offered to enter into an agreement to license Call of Duty to SIE—first for five years (this is new!) and then for ten, an unheard-of duration in the industry. SIE has refused. Microsoft seeks documents about these negotiations, including SIE's internal consideration of Microsoft's offers and why it has refused them.

- Request 14(f) seeks information about SIE's investment in virtual reality technology for its console, which SIE executives have highlighted as a strategic imperative and "a giant leap forward in the way we play games.

 

What a meltdown 

 

All this because this retard wants to rent COD on GamePass 

 

Edited February 16, 2023 by FIREPOWER

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4 minutes ago, FIREPOWER said:

 

What a meltdown 

 

All this because this retard wants to rent COD on GamePass 

 

Why would anyone want to buy a COD game?

[jehurey 3,237]

4 hours ago, Jerrys Hair Line said:

He’s just sitting around, staring at his screen saying *please ghostz, please post”

 

kinda like how he stares in the mirror and says “please hair, please grow” 

 

I love how I just pointed out that his claim falls apart immediately, but he pretended as if it still works. LOL

 

And I love how he is posting early in the morning, because he has to go to work to go to his call center job, and he rushed to come post here

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Just now, jehurey said:

I love how I just pointed out that his claim falls apart immediately, but he pretended as if it still works. LOL

 

And I love how he is posting early in the morning, because he has to go to work to go to his call center job, and he rushed to come post here

He just woke up and rushed to his computer to see if I responded

[jehurey 3,237]

Just now, Jerrys Hair Line said:

He just woke up and rushed to his computer to see if I responded

LOL I just saw his meltdown post

 

@FIREPOWER is right...........he can't afford to actually get CoD, so he's hoping it comes to a rental service.

 

....that's by his nephew