The day before, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) condemned the increase in Game Pass subscription prices, they say, the regulator warned of this outcome during the trial. IN Microsoft they did not freeze and rolled the response letter.
Below are the main theses:
FTC complaint, according to Microsoft, misleads and is another attempt by the agency to return to the case against the transaction.
The new Game Pass Standard tariff for $ 14.99 per month is incorrect to call the “cut” version of Game Pass for Console for $ 10.99 – a level that is removed from the sale. There really are no games on the release day in the “standard”, but there is access to the multiplayer – this option Game Pass for consoles had to buy for $ 9.99. As a result, before the introduction of Standard, people were forced to pay even more.
Raising the monthly cost of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate from $ 16.99 to $ 19.99 is justified by the “increase in value” of the subscription. According to Microsoft, The number of games that go to Game Pass on the release day will become higher. Among them is the new Call of Duty . The company paid special attention to the fact that earlier games of the series did not appear in signature services on the day of launch.
"T -shirts" noted that Game Pass was not particularly interested in FTC in court. Instead, the regulator employees pushed the idea that after the completion of the transaction Microsoft seizure Call of Duty with consoles Sony. This did not happen in the end – Black OPS 6 PlayStation will also visit.
The deal between Microsoft And Activision Blizzard did not strike at the PlayStation Plus. “Subscribed service Sony continues to flourish, even despite the fact that a few games are added to the catalog on the release day, unlike Microsoft", – indicated in the letter.
There is no evidence that the deal hurt consumers or other market participants. "It was to this correct statement that the district court came", – summed up in the company.
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It is still ridiculous how in https://slotsnogamstop.co.uk/review/magic-win/ court they pressed Sonya’s dominance in the Japanese market that the US government was harnessed, and as a result closed their only Japanese studio.
There is no evidence that the deal hurt consumers or other market participants. "It was to this correct statement that the district court came",
Yes, it is necessary to say this to the darkness of the dismissed employees, they all became good for them.
And you also need to clarify whether the number of satisfied consumers who signed for the service for the sake of new games on the day of the release, but did not sit on the Ultimate version of the subscription, are included in this number. Equally for them everything turned out or not
I find it extremely ironic that I bought Xbox two years ago in order to play the second stalker in Gampas (he was supposed to be released in the same year, and the purchase of a computer in the foreseeable future was not expected).
As a result, the date of the Stalker’s exit was transferred many times, and when he finally was about to go out, it turns out that he will not get into the basic gapas.
I have a version, it is a little cannibalist.
The logic is possible as follows:
If you consider gampass not separately, but as part of the business, then it hits the company’s income.To. Cor Audience has a GP, it will not buy a game and income from subscribers does not overlap the undertaken sales. T.e. It’s easier to break their hands to transfer people to the ulthemian GP, well, someone will take the standard subscription (but I think there will be a little). As a result, the number of subscribers will decrease, but the cost of subscription from each will grow, and those who will write off the games for the fulprase.
And they themselves reduced the budget for advertising in Europe.
But the case in court needs to win
As if there are any doubts that he will come out with a shnyaga
Xbox continues to kill himself (I say, as a user Xbox), and it is not clear why. It seems that the leadership is quite adequate (xbox’a, not those above them), and after an extremely bad 2 years in a row, they seem to leave, their condition improves, but they deliberately create some kind of garbage that harms them.
It is clear that they had a dilemma: the basic Game Pass on Xbox does not include a subscription for the multiplayer, which is why it is a significant part of the Game Pass games, buying only it, it is impossible to play. So, we must somehow get rid of this inconsistency, before going to Game Pass of different parts of the sorption, because most of the audience sorps play in the multiplayer. They had several options, and they somehow happened, they chose the worst of the possible. The only trick of Game pass- Day One releases, this subscription is being built on them. Release of the subscription level without its only chip is idiocy. They also thought of combining this with increasing prices, that is, you must buy a subscription that has risen in price by one and a half times, without its only chip. It sounds awesome.
This does not increase profit, because after such a garbage their audience will decrease too seriously. They will lose money, reputation, Game Pass status, tolerate a bunch of long -term consequences. And it is not clear why. If the increase in prices was inevitable (although, it seems to me, it was possible to increase not so much, in the long run, everything would have been beaten off, with Activision games), it was quite possible to simply make a full -fledged subscription to the Core subscription elements more expensive. There would be much less damage, and FTC would not have been binding. But no, they swear machine guns with two hands on their feet, and then the following: “Yes, it’s normal my legs, everything is so conceived”.
Well, everyone needs COD (and generally games AB). Crash and Spyro are bought, well, maybe I would not refuse Tony Hawk. But on the other hand, I have not bought a subscription for a year and for me shirts have not given a particular reason for this.
The new Game Pass Standard tariff for $ 14.99 per month is incorrect to call the “cut” version of Game Pass for Console for $ 10.99 – a level that is removed from the sale. There really are no games on the release day in the “standard”, but there is access to the multiplayer – this option Game Pass for consoles had to buy for $ 9.99. As a result, before the introduction of Standard, people were forced to pay even more.
This is especially relevant to some stalker 2, who, probably, will not have online, and if there is, then he gave up to whom he gave up to whom. But in any case, buy a multiplayer
What kind of shit to buy multiplayer separately.
Agree. Moreover, if Pioner really comes out this year and will at least at the minimum acceptable level
There are doubts that it will come out.
Despite the fact that they themselves do not do Nicero in order to promote their consoles and games. it seems competent marketers in Mycrosoft died out. This is what happens when you take people in quotas and not skills and talents.
Go to desperate steps, t.To. understand that they do not draw competition with Sony.
I also do not understand at all what they do. That is, they literally smeared Sonya this year by games at the conference, that is, their purchases finally began to justify themselves. It would seem that here it is, make these games with exclusives of your console and continue in the same spirit, release good games and your console will buy, and with it the gamepass.