Xbox Game Pass It is a very useful service and, as far as one can understand from the outside, expensive to administer. Microsoft and Xbox are about to spend a significant amount of money acquiring Activision Blizzard (if all goes well, of course). All this can then cause price increase Xbox Game Pass? Microsoft repeats it That won’t happen.
Last month, the UK’s Competition and Markets Regulatory Authority released its interim findings on its acquisition of Activision Blizzard (cm extension) expressed concerns that Microsoft might decide to increase the price of Game Pass after adding Activision’s “popular content”.
“the Subscription prices They can be easily revised, and Microsoft may have an incentive to do so once popular content like Activision, including Call of Duty, is added,” the CMA suggested.
However, in response to the CMA results, Microsoft said it did They have no intention of raising prices of Xbox Game Pass after the deal and said that doing so would be counterproductive as it would lead to a drop in subscribers.
Microsoft then indicated that it had not raised Game Pass prices since it introduced video games Bethesda on the service, following the acquisition of the publisher’s parent company – ZeniMax Media – which gave it access to games like The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Doom and Dishonored.
Sony previously argued that if Microsoft and Activision were allowed to merge, their power would significantly reduce PlayStation’s ability to compete with Xbox and provide Microsoft with the opportunity to “raise the prices of consoles and games for Xbox users (including those who moved from PlayStation to Xbox);” Raising the price of Game Pass and lowering innovation and quality.”
Microsoft clearly disputes these considerations. For example, Xbox Game Pass allows you to be original and creative, according to Double Fine’s Tim Schafer.
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