Microsoft says it’s ‘wrong’ to cite customer harm with Game Pass price hike in FTC lawsuit response

Microsoft is still embroiled in a battle with the United States Federal Trade Commission that has been continued to poke and prod at its merger with Activision-Blizzard. Now, after Microsoft raised Game Pass prices, the battle is only heating up as the FTC argues the company is harming customers.

Microsoft, in a recent response to the FTC’s claims, denied such notions and called the commission’s arguments “wrong,” saying it hasn’t “degraded” the previously available Game Pass for Console option through the new Game Pass Standard tier (as reported by The Verge). The company added how Game Pass for Console didn’t offer multiplayer while Standard does, alongside “hundreds of back-catalog games.” Lastly, Microsoft stated how it believes the new price increase is justified since it will provide “more value” with day one releases and the addition of Call of Duty to the service.

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