Activision Tells CMA They Didn’t Want To Make Cloud Games
The CMA has shared Activision Blizzard King’s latest response to them as part of their most recent dump of documents about the Microsoft – Activision deal. Surprisingly enough, Activision is scolding them.
The CMA’s provisional findings reports that Activision intends to put their games on the cloud. Activision has flat out denied this in their response. Furthermore, Activision says that the CMA has been misrepresenting their statements to create this fake narrative.
This is a mess to get through, but to start, Activision explains the reasons they aren’t eager to enter could gaming on their own. To sum, the reasons they cite are:
We’ll pass on other parts of the document for now, but let’s talk about what Activision Blizzard has been correcting the CMA for.
On pages 11 – 12 of the document, they say these:
“The Provisional Findings suggest that Activision Blizzard [REDACTED] become important inputs to cloud gaming services absent the Transaction. This contradicts all available evidence, including the sworn testimony of the two executives whose [REDACTED] for Activision Blizzard to [REDACTED] toward cloud gaming.”
They then refer to several documents that the CMA has completely misrepresented. They have cut even the name and contents of this document, but let’s go through what Activision says the CMA misrepresented:
“The Provisional Findings misrepresent a [REDACTED], to suggest that Activision Blizzard was [REDACTED].
In fact, the draft merely highlights how Activision Blizzard discusses various opportunities for developing business and growth, including new and emerging aspects of the gaming industry. Not all such opportunities, unsurprisingly, become approved commercial strategy.”
The passages below refer to a second
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