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Xbox hits back at the FTC, saying it's "wrong" to call its revised Xbox Game Pass tiers "degraded"
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has slammed Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass tier changes as a "degraded product", citing …
Watch on YouTube The FTC's filing with the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals added that Microsoft's announcement shows why it's necessary to "halt mergers to fully evaluate their likely competitive effects", and is "inconsistent" with what Microsoft said when the FTC initially intervened to prevent its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. "Product degradation – removing the most valuable games from Microsoft's new service – combined with price increases for existing users, is exactly the sort of consumer harm from the merger the FTC has alleged," the filing said. "Since the FTC lost in court last July, Microsoft was required by the UK competition authority to restructure the acquisition globally and therefore did not acquire the cloud streaming rights to Activision Blizzard games in the United States.
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