The Microsoft Activision Saga is over.

Finally, you're listening to Motley Fool Money.

I'm Ricky Mulvey, joined today by Osset Sharma, Osset, good to see you, my man.

Ricky, good to see you, as always.

So almost two years after announcing a deal to the public, Microsoft has finally completed

its $69 billion acquisition of Video Game Maker Activision Blizzard, the largest in Microsoft's

history.

It's been a long fight.

What got this deal over the finish line?

Ricky, when you really want something in Mergers and Acquisition, as well as in life, you

got to make concessions, right?

So the two key concessions Microsoft made to get this deal over the finish line was first

to agree that it would keep Call of Duty, this mega franchise, on Activision's part available

to other platforms, and they wouldn't make it exclusive on the Xbox.

And I believe you and I have talked about this as of others on Motley Fool Money.

I'm sure most of our listeners are familiar with this Dynamics, so it won't spend too much

time on that.

The other major concession is a cloud streaming concession.

The Microsoft is going to grant a French gaming publisher named Ubisoft, perpetual streaming

rights for Call of Duty and all of their active titles, as well as those that will be released

by Microsoft slash Activision over the next 15 years.

That's a key concession, you know, a nice amount of revenue that they're foregoing, but

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