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The FTC is none too please with Microsoft ’s recent changes to Xbox Game Pass , which hiked the price of Ultimate which added a new tier that lacks day one releases of exclusives., the FTC says this is exactly the sort of thing they were worried about when the Activision Blizzard deal went through:
Microsoft, however, has responded, saying the FTC is mischaracterizing the different tiers and in fact this makes it all better: I think there are bits and pieces that don’t work in both these arguments, but I’m sorry, is Microsoft’s counter here that they are raising Game Pass Ultimate prices in part because Call of Duty is now launching there? Is this not the exact kind of thing the FTC was arguing is bad and anti-consumer?
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