Microsoftduring its offer to purchase the Activision Blizzard, has stated that it will honor all agreements to keep the next three games of the world’s most popular game series, Call of Duty, available to PlayStation owners. It also promised to keep the games on PlayStation for three years after the original agreement was completed, but Sony’s CEO, Jim Ryan, publicly stated that the proposal was “manifestly inadequate”.
Ryan spoke candidly about the offer of Phil Spencer From Microsoft: “I wasn’t going to comment on what I understand to be a private business discussion, but I feel the need to set the record straight because Phil Spencer brought it to the public forum,” Ryan said. “Microsoft only offered Call of Duty to remain on PlayStation for three years after the current agreement between Activision and Sony ends. After nearly 20 years of Call of Duty on PlayStation, their offer was inadequate on several levels and did not take into account the impact on our gamers. We want to ensure that PlayStation players will continue to receive the highest quality Call of Duty experience, and Microsoft’s proposal undermines this principle.”
The acquisition is now being closely scrutinized by various regulators, such as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, to ensure that no monopoly is created as a result of the acquisition of the gaming giant. Call of Duty titles are part of the most popular and largest first-person game series in the world, which has almost 100 million players.
In the UK, the Competition and Markets Authority is expected to refer Microsoft’s offer to acquire Activision to a second in-depth investigation, unless the two companies “offer acceptable commitments to address them.” In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission has already entered the second phase of its investigation into whether the acquisition will materially affect competition. Despite the investigations, Activision’s CEO, Bobby Koticksaid in a Sept. 1 letter that Microsoft’s offer to acquire the company “has already received approvals from several states,” and “the process with all regulators is generally moving forward as we anticipate.”
apropos modern warfare 2, Not much time left. About three weeks until the world’s most popular first-person shooter returns with a new chapter. Activision decided to split the release dates of the three most popular game modes over a whole month. The single player mode will be released on October 20th, the online mode will be available about a week later, on October 28th. Warzone 2.0 release date will be November 16th. Additionally, Modern Warfare 2 will be available on the Game Pass service on launch day