The deal that will change the industry forever.”

That’s how analysts described Microsoft’s proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard to GamesIndustry.biz shortly after it was announced last year.

16 months later, and in the wake of the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority announcing that it was preventing the deal from happening, that change seems far from certain.

With the future of this merger up in the air, we reached back out to those same analysts to tackle the biggest questions around this latest hurdle for Microsoft and Activision Blizzard.

Source: N4G PC Is the Microsoft-Activision deal dead?