Why should anyone spend money on this instead of buying a CD?

Can't you read, it's an Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher. That should be pretty obvious.

(It's a "joke-tool" to create a breaking point on the shell of an egg where it's supposed to crack.)

How could MS owing Activision make anything worse? Seriously, ABK is the worst, greediest and most anti-consumer games publisher on our planet right now. It can't get worse. CoD will remain multiplat and there's a chance that the other games remain multiplat as well.

There have been so many mergers and buyouts recently that actually impacted many areas of the world's economics and they passes without any issues. MS buying a game publisher is irrelevant in comparison.

Also, they're still far from a monopoly afterwards.

Everyone is suing everyone today, it seems.