Activision Blizzard Games Must Appear on Competing Cloud Services

Activision Blizzard Games Must Appear on Competing Cloud Services
[May 16, 2023, 10:50 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

A tweet from Brad Smith outlines one of the consequences of the EU Commission approval of the proposed Microsoft/Activision Blizzard merger. Presumably, this hinges on the deal going through. The Microsoft vice chair and president explains that "popular" Activision Blizzard games must be automatically served through competing cloud services worldwide:

The European Commission has required Microsoft to license popular Activision Blizzard games automatically to competing cloud gaming services. This will apply globally and will empower millions of consumers worldwide to play these games on any device they choose.

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Re: Activision Blizzard Games Must Appear on Competing Cloud Services
May 16, 2023, 16:08

jdreyer

Re: Activision Blizzard Games Must Appear on Competing Cloud Services May 16, 2023, 16:08

May 16, 2023, 16:08

jdreyer

Everyone here is interpreting "cloud gaming services" as meaning game streaming services like Amazon Luna or Nvidia GeForce Now. But those are still pretty niche operations and the tweet said "millions of consumers." I think the actual inference is to Steam and EGS.

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