The technological giant acquired the successful video game company in 2023.
The legal appeal of Federal Commercial Commissions of the United States (FTC) that challenges the acquisition of $ 69 billion Microsoft of the video game manufacturer, Activision Blizzard, has failed more than a year after the largest game agreement in history.
The acquisition, proposed for the first time in early 2022, caused antitrust concerns of internationally regulators, who were concerned about the possible commercial benefit that the technological giant would obtain by having exclusive control to make the videogames of greatly successful activation such as Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Diablo.
Microsoft has already represented an estimated 60 to 70pc or the Global Cloud Games Services, the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) found in its preliminary research in early 2023.
However, the possible agreement was allowed after the CMA cools the technological giant The Green Light at the end of 2023, which followed the US authorities and the EU earlier that year.
Althegh, Microsoft had to alter its proposal to meet the needs of regulators.
Meanwhile, the FTC filed an antimonopoly demand to block the agreement in 2022, claiming that the acquisition “would allow Microsoft to suppress competitors to their Xbox games consoles and their quick growth content and a cloud game.”
Although the legal scrutiny caused Microsoft to commit to several changes that the competition in the game space would maintain, the FTC lost a preliminary judicial order to block the agreement in 2023. However, it immediately appealed the decision.
Yesterday (May 7), the United States Court of Appeals closed FTCS’s concerns, with a panel of three judges that unanimously defends the previous decision.
The court wrote that the Commission could not prove that the proposed fusion “competence of substantial lessons” in the market.
“Given the FTC failure to make adequate demonstration about its probability of success in the merits in terms of any of the theories, the District Court properly denied the motion of the FTC of a preliminary lesion on that basis,” said the opinion.
However, the agreement remains “the issue of administrative processing that remains pending before the FTC,” he added.
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