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Video Game Users File Lawsuit to Halt Merger Between Microsoft and Activision

U.S. gamers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop Microsoft’s proposed $69 billion acquisition of “Call of Duty” maker Activision Blizzard.

The lawsuit claimed the acquisition would give Microsoft “far-outsized market power in the video game industry” and “the ability to foreclose rivals, limit output, reduce consumer choice, raise prices, and further inhibit competition.” This isn’t the first lawsuit filed this month against the acquisition. The Federal Trade Commission had moved to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard by filing a lawsuit on Dec. 8.

The FTC and the 10 gamers who filed the lawsuit share similar concerns that Microsoft’s acquisition will lead to a monopoly that will force out rivals. The FTC pointed this out in its press release by noting Microsoft’s pattern of bad faith when it came to acquiring game studios and IPs with the promise of not making the titles exclusive to Microsoft platforms.

Read the source article at ibtimes.com

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