Microsoft buys Activision Blizzard

Or, maybe the FTC knows jack all about the game industry, has no clue about the dynamics of players and developers and publishers, and doesn’t actually understand the relationship between gamers, game IPs, and hardware, among other things. It’s entirely possible that this is another case of the government in some form jumping into a field where it seems on the surface to be something they are familiar with but which really is something of which they are mostly ignorant.