Microsoft attempts to defend the recent 50% price hike for Game Pass Ultimate.
    • bear@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      45·
      17 hours ago

      Part of the problem is that most of the people making these decisions have been seeing their incomes and net worth increase steadily over the past decade. They don’t truly understand their subscriber base.

      • RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        11 hours ago

        But they do understand “charge what the market will bear”. It’s all about short term profit.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      7·
      16 hours ago

      Thanks for letting me know, I’ve been paying just for some spare OneDrive space but I think I’ll cut it if they’re raising the price

      • Prove_your_argument@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        My boss showed me the article yesterday, but apparently it’s the old news from earlier this year. It went from 70 to 100 back in Feb.

        That’s still a giant increase from whatever you would have paid last year.