Europe examines whether activision blizzard acquisition should be approved

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activision blizzard acquisition – The European Commission (EC) has sent a long questionnaire to competitors of Microsoft and game company Activision Blizzard, reports Reuters news agency. With the questionnaire, competitors can indicate why the acquisition of Activision Blizzard may or may not go through.

Answers to the questionnaire should give the EC insight into the ways in which Microsoft could disadvantage competitors after the acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The final decision whether the acquisition can go ahead will be partly based on the answers of competitors. The EC will issue a provisional decision by 8 November at the latest.

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The European regulator is afraid that Microsoft will keep Activision Blizzard’s games exclusively for itself. Microsoft could also give itself an advantage by releasing games first for the Xbox.

Microsoft has already made many commitments to reassure regulators, such as the promise that competitors will not be disadvantaged. Yet regulators are not entirely comfortable with it.

The top three largest gaming companies are Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo. With the acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft becomes even bigger. After the acquisition, Microsoft is not only a producer of game consoles and owner of an online store for games, but also becomes a developer of games.

One of the biggest tech acquisitions ever

At the beginning of this year, Microsoft announced that the game company Activision is acquiring Blizzard. The game developer is known for popular games such as World of Warcraft and Call of Duty.

Microsoft will pay 68.7 billion dollars (more than 70 billion euros) for the acquisition. This makes this acquisition in the top five of largest tech acquisitions ever.

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