Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick nonetheless expects Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of the Call of Duty to writer to shut by June 2023.

Discussing the scenario in a letter to workers, Kotick stated the corporate is working alongside Microsoft to allay any issues regulators might need concerning the deal.

As it stands, the merger has been accepted by regulators in some nations together with Brazil and Saudi Arabia, however is coming underneath elevated scrutiny from others in key areas such because the United Kingdom and the European Union.

For occasion, earlier this week the European Commission stated it should conduct a full investigation into the deal over issues the transition “might cut back competitors within the markets for the distribution of console and private computer systems video video games and fro PC working programs.”

UK regulator the Competition Markets Authority can be frightened that the proposed deal will give Microsoft an unfair benefit by permitting the console maker to make key franchises resembling Call of Duty platform unique.

Kotick, nonetheless, seems to be much less involved about these potential sticking factors, and suggests regulators are merely making an attempt to “higher perceive the video games enterprise.”

“We proceed to work cooperatively with regulators in different jurisdictions, and the method is transferring alongside as we anticipated. Because so many massive world firms internationally are actually competing within the practically $200 billion greenback video games trade, it’s comprehensible that regulators try to raised perceive the video games enterprise,” wrote Kotick.

“This week the European Commission introduced that we have now entered the second part of our assessment within the area. We will proceed to cooperate with the European Commission the place, within the nations they characterize, we have now many workers. We have been working intently with Microsoft to actively have interaction regulators in different key nations to reply their questions and supply them with info to help with their assessment.

“People from throughout our enterprise models and features have been concerned on this regulatory work, and I need to thank every of you on your tireless work and dedication to finishing this merger, which we proceed to anticipate to shut in Microsoft’s present fiscal yr ending June 2023.”