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[STEAM] FTC attacks Microsoft’s post-merger Game Pass price increases


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/ Access to first-party games on launch day ******** a major selling point for the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate tier. (credit:
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[/url] The FTC says the across-the-board price increases that
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for its Xbox Game Pass subscription service tiers represent "exactly the sort of consumer harm from the merger the FTC has alleged" when it
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in the case, the federal regulator alleges
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's moves are a clear example of "product degradation" brought about by "a firm exercising market power post-merger."

The letter's primary focus is on the soon-to-be-discontinued $10.99/month Console Game Pass tier. That's being replaced with a $14.99/month Game Pass Standard tier (a 36 percent price increase) that no longer includes "day one" access to all of
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's first-party titles. To maintain that key benefit, "Console" subscribers will have to spend 81 percent more for the $19.99 Game Pass Ultimate tier, which also includes a number of additional benefits over the current $10.99/month option.

Is this “based on the acquisition”?
The FTC notes that these changes "coincide with adding Call of Duty to Game Pass’s most expensive tier." Previously,
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that this Game Pass access to Activision's ultra-popular shooter would come "with no price increase for the service based on the acquisition."

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