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But competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager<\/a> admitted the split with Britain \"raises questions\".
Xbox-owner Microsoft<\/a> launched a bid for Activision Blizzard<\/a> early last year, seeking to establish the world's third biggest gaming firm by revenue after China's Tencent and Japan's PlayStation maker Sony<\/a>.
Activision Blizzard's hit titles include \"Call of Duty\", \"Candy Crush<\/a>\" and \"World of Warcraft<\/a>\" and the move soon triggered competition concerns, and in Microsoft's home US market federal authorities have gone to court to try to halt the dal.
Last week, Brussels gave the takeover a green light, just weeks after Britain's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) blocked it, arguing it would harm competition in cloud gaming.
The split is the most significant between EU and UK regulators since Brexit.
Vestager, the European Commission<\/a> vice president, told reporters in Brussels that the EU was satisfied with the commitments made by Microsoft that it would not make games \"exclusive\" to its own cloud gaming service.
\"Where we diverged with the CMA was on remedies. We accepted a 10-year free licence to consumers to allow them to stream all Activision games for which they have a licence via any cloud service,\" Vestager said.
\"And why did we do this instead of blocking the merger? Well, to us, this solution fully addressed our concerns. And on top of that, it had significant pro-competitive effects,\" she argued.
But Vestager noted the \"divergence raises important questions regarding our assessment, our remedies policy and our cooperation\".
Microsoft filed an appeal against the CMA's decision with the UK Competition Appeals Tribunal on Wednesday, a company spokesman told AFP.
Microsoft's bid is also under threat in the United States as well where the Federal Trade Commission (FTC<\/a>) launched a legal action to block it last year, one of Washington's biggest ever interventions to stop tech industry consolidation.
It could be game over for the merger unless Microsoft successfully fights off the challenges in Britain and the United States.
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但竞争委员会委员Margrethe Vestager承认分裂与英国“提出问题”。
Xbox-owner微软发起了竞购动视暴雪去年年初,寻求建立全球第三大博彩公司的收入在中国的腾讯和日本的PlayStation制造商索尼。
动视暴雪的标题包括“使命召唤”、“糖果压碎”和“《魔兽世界》很快”,此举引发了竞争问题,在微软的家美国市场联邦当局去法院试图阻止木豆。
上周,欧盟给收购了绿灯,在几周前英国竞争和市场管理局(CMA)屏蔽它,认为这将损害竞争在云游戏。
分裂是Brexit以来最重要的欧盟和英国监管机构之间。
维斯塔,欧洲委员会副总裁,在布鲁塞尔对记者说,欧盟承诺由微软感到满意,它不会使游戏“独家”自己的云游戏服务。
“我们分化CMA的补救措施。我们接受了为期10年的免费许可证消费者让他们流动视游戏为他们有执照通过任何的云服务,”维斯说。
“为什么我们这样做而不是阻塞合并?对我们来说,这个解决方案完全解决我们的问题。和最重要的是,而有显著的影响,”她说。
但维斯指出“散度提出了重要的问题对于我们的评估,我们的补救措施政策,我们的合作”。
微软对CMA的决定提起上诉与英国竞争上诉法庭周三,该公司一位发言人告诉法新社。
微软的出价也受到威胁在美国联邦贸易委员会(联邦贸易委员会)采取法律行动,阻止它,去年华盛顿最大的干预措施来阻止科技行业整合。
合并可以是游戏结束,除非微软成功击退挑战在英国和美国。
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