Microsoft's planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard has had stiff opposition from the US Federal Trade Commission. Now, it's about to face even more resistance from consumers.
A group of ten Call of Duty gamers has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in California against Microsoft. The aim is to stop the merger between the tech giant and easily one of the most massive video game makers in the world. The deal between is worth $68.7 billion and has prompted investigations from the EU Commission and UK CMA.
This new complaint echoes several key points from the objections by FTC. The FTC argued that "there are only several independent game publishers in the world that are capable of making the highest production quality and most graphics-intensive videogames that can be mass marketed and are highly anticipated among gamers," and the merger of these two companies would be bad for consumers, employees and the industry as a whole.