we asked the questions to the community what would you ask bobby kotick. resounding question is what is it that microsoft could offer activision gamers playing different titles that you guys cannot offer on your own if he remained a standalone company? bobby: i can't say there any specific thing that microsoft will offer that we could not. what i would say is the most important is access to talent. as the market continues to grow, as you see the intensified competition coming from so many companies with aspirations to make and sell videogames, one of the things we were realizing is access to talent was going to be increasingly more competitive and difficult and it is the same type of talent, ai and machine learning talent, data analytics, user interface, and user experience type talent that is now in such high demand. i think our hope is, over time, we will be able to attract people from the enterprise side of microsoft to be excited about working in gaming but i think, on a combined basis, it gives us a greater chance to compete against the many competitor

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activision's bobby kotick was on "squawk" earlier today. >> we were concerned about what the regulatorylimate would be, but we never thought that there was any, you know, real reason that was legitimate why these two companies couldn't combine. there's so many competitors that are bigger, more successful, with more advantages, and i think we ultimately always believed that just on the merits of the transaction, that it would get through. >> jim, is it all clear? >> yeah. well, i'll tell you, if you go back to the ftc's case against the deal, and you go back to the injunction that they failed to get, and you have the -- a judge, a federal judge just saying, look, there's absolutely no rigor whatsoever to the ftc, they produced one expert witness who was not qualified, and there's no reason -- and there's no diminution of gamers and people who write games and i read it, and i talked to some of my friends who are in my law school class, and they all said, rebuke. just a total rebuke. so, i figured this would happen. there was, you know, it was a pretty fatuous reasoning that there would be