FTC v. Microsoft: all the news from the big Xbox courtroom battle
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Judge Corley wants to know some basics, whether Dr. Lee’s report was based on telemetry real data of how people play Call of Duty:
My question is about this foreclosure model. Because that’s important to MS having the incentive. That’s a mathematical incentive. That’s the nub of it.
A lot of people buy games and they play them once or twice and then never play them again. I guess I’m trying to figure out, I’m looking at the data that Dr. Bailey said and a lot of people buy it and don’t play it very much.
Is what [Dr. Lee] is seeing based on the number of hours played?
The FTC is now referencing confidential data and struggling to answer the question clearly.
Microsoft’s lawyer cuts in and says the company asked Dr. Lee about his calculations. “We don’t have any answers,” says Microsoft’s lawyer.
