Anyone who has purchased any current or upcoming Activision-Blizzard games (or accessed them through a subscription) will "have the right to stream those games with any cloud game streaming service of their choice and play them on any device using any operating system" throughout Europe.
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Those include a free license for any cloud streaming service to allow its users access to "any Activision Blizzard PC and console games" for at least 10 years.
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Such a move could "also strengthen the position of Windows in the market for PC operating systems," the European regulators wrote.īecause of those concerns, the EC's decision is conditional on certain assurances Microsoft has made to preserve competition. "If Microsoft made Activision's games exclusive to its own cloud game streaming service, Game Pass Ultimate, and withheld them from rival cloud game streaming providers, it would reduce competition in the distribution of games via cloud game streaming," the EC concluded. And despite the EC's final decision, today's final report on the matter affirms some of those preliminary competition concerns. Months ago, the EC's preliminary investigation of the Microsoft/Activision deal concluded that the proposed merger could reduce competition in areas including cloud gaming services and PC operating systems. But the decision is in direct conflict with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which says it "stands by its decision" to block the deal in that Brexit-separated country. The European Commission (EC) has officially approved Microsoft's long-proposed $69 billion acquisition of Activision, concluding a long-running "in-depth investigation" that has long been expected to go Microsoft's way. Microsoft / Activision reader comments 120 with
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