{"id":986134,"date":"2026-01-17T11:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986134"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:43:33","slug":"italian-regulator-to-investigate-in-app-purchase-systems-of-microsoft-activision-blizzards-two-most-popular-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/17\/italian-regulator-to-investigate-in-app-purchase-systems-of-microsoft-activision-blizzards-two-most-popular-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian regulator to investigate in-app purchase systems of Microsoft Activision Blizzard\u2019s two most popular games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s competition watchdog has announced that it has opened two investigations into Microsoft\u2019s Activision Blizzard unit. AGCM has alleged that the gaming giant used \u201cmisleading and aggressive\u201d practices to drive in-app purchases in its hit mobile titles: Diablo Immortal and Call of Duty: Mobile. These are considered as two of the industry&#8217;s most lucrative free-to-play franchises. Regulators argue that the company\u2019s tactics may violate consumer protection laws as they may foster gambling-like behaviours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s competition watchdog has announced that it has opened two investigations into Microsoft\u2019s Activision Blizzard unit. AGCM has alleged that the gaming giant used \u201cmisleading and aggressive\u201d practices to drive in-app purchases in its hit mobile titles: Diablo Immortal and Call of Duty: Mobile. These are considered as two of the industry&#8217;s most lucrative free-to-play franchises. Regulators argue that the company\u2019s tactics may violate consumer protection laws as they may foster gambling-like behaviours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}