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.
Indeed, and they'd already put agreements in place to put CoD et al on nVidia Gamestream. It seems odd that the UK CMA blocked it when it's actually opening Activision games to more platforms. Maybe Sony didn't like losing their paid for exclusivity (IIRC they pay Activision to not have CoD on any subscription service, and also to make some features timebound to Playstation). Apparently that's not anti-competitive somehow.
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