FTC says I told you judge, I warned you bro, as it unloads on Microsoft for Game Pass price hikes and 'a degraded product' that it says break promises made to seal the Activision merger

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One of Josh's first memories is of playing Quake 2 on the family computer when he was much too young to be doing that, and he's been irreparably game-brained ever since. His writing has been featured in Vice, Fanbyte, and the Financial Times.

? Well, good news: so is the mighty American state. Or part of it, anyway. The US Federal Trade Commission , the country's antitrust and consumer protection watchdog, hasto the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in which it attacks Microsoft for"introducing a degraded product" with its new Game Pass Standard tier.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate's offerings were unchanged , but it got a $3 price hike from $17 to $20 a month. In the filing, the agency notes"Microsoft’s price increases and product degradation—combined with Microsoft’s reduced investments in output and product quality via employee layoffs," and calls them"the hallmarks of a firm exercising market power post-merger."notes that Microsoft sure forgot to mention this when it was talking a big game about the acquisition giving Game Pass subs day-one access to new CoDs.

 

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