- May 12th 2023: The gamer's lawsuit will get a dual US court hearing about whether the deal would cause immediate irreparable harm to consumers, as well as the issue of the bond to be posted by the plaintiffs.
- May 22nd 2023: provisional deadline for a decision from the EC.
- May 2023: decision from the SAMR in China.
- May 2023: decision from the Korea Fair Trade Commission.
- May 2023: final decision from the Competition Tribunal in South Africa.
- Late May 2023: deadline for an appeal to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in UK
- June 9th 2023: decision from New Zealand
- July 18th 2023: The end of the second extension and final outside date in the merger agreement. If MS quits by that date they have to pay a termination fee of $3,000,000,000; if they don't, they'll have to renegotiate the outside date with ABK.
- August 2nd 2023: beginning of the FTC in-house trial.
- Early 2024: decision from the FTC administrative law judge.
- Early 2024: decision from CAT (if there was an appeal)
- Anything beyond that: unknown