less than a month after it was dismissed the gamers lawsuit is back the gamers suing to block the xbox activision deal have filed an amended complaint bolstered with additional information provided by sonyyoud be forgiven if youve lost track of which lawsuit is which in the myriad efforts to block microsofts planned acquisition of activision blizzard the gamers lawsuit was filed in december 2022 on behalf of 10 seemingly random game fans arguing that the acquisition would be bad for the public not just microsofts industry competitors a judge dismissed the suit in march saying that it failed to plausibly allege that the merger would have anticompetitive effectswith that in mind the suit has now been amended and refiled the plaintiffs were unable to convince nintendo and sonys ceos to testify here but sony was willing to produce a number of documents related to the case in an april 7 filing via tweaktown microsoft noted that it was surprised that the plaintiffs received document productions from sony weeks agothe amended lawsuit was filed on april 10 with the new information provided by sony included sadly we havent gotten to see that info for ourselves as florian mueller notes on his foss patents blog the charts provided by sony have been redacted in the public version of the amended suiteven with the amendment its certainly possible that this lawsuit will be dismissed again as the court will still have to decide whether or not theres merit to these arguments even with some additional detail beyond that theres not much of interest in the new suit for casual observers except for one thing sizable stretches of the amended gamers lawsuit appear to have been directly copied from the ftcs complaint a complaint which obviously carries much greater weight than the gripes of 10 random gamers i knew this sounded familiar plaintiff counsel in the gamers lawsuit almost copies the ftcs complaint word for wordftc left in blue vs gamers lawsuit amended complaint right in green pictwittercomsw0wris2bdapril 11 2023see moresonys unhappy about microsofts reported cancelation of redfall on ps5