The tech company says the FTC “presents a misleading, extra-record account of the facts and is a continuation of the agency’s attempts to reinvent its case on appeal.”
Image credit:Microsoft/ Xbox
.jpg?width=2048&height=2048&fit=bounds&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp)
The Federal Trade Commission recently expressed that it has some issues with the recent Xbox Game Pass price hike, but Microsoft unsurprisingly disagrees.
Microsoft has responded to the FTC’s filing about Xbox Game Pass price increases. It calls the FTC’s letter a “misleading, extra-record account of the facts” and says the FTC is wrong to call Game Pass Standard a “degraded” version because it includes multiplayer https://t.co/ocS9yfwSix pic.twitter.com/QXUoViUpoL — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) July 19, 2024
In a letter sent to the court, via The Verge’s Tom Warren, Microsoft claims that the FTC “presents a misleading, extra-record account of the facts and is a continuation of the agency’s attempts to reinvent its case on appeal.” It also notes that it’s unfair to call the new Game Pass Standard tier a “‘degraded’ version of the discontinued Game Pass for Console offering” because it didn’t offer “multiplayer functionality”. For Game Pass Ultimate, it also argued that “the service will offer more value through many new games available ‘day-and-date’” in particular Call of Duty, which it notes “has never before been available on a subscription day-and-date.”
Rounding off Microsoft’s letter is the point that the FTC “barely mentioned subscription at trial, instead focusing on the theory that Microsoft would withhold Call of Duty from Sony’s console,” which obviously isn’t the case ( at least for the next 10 years ). We’ll obviously have to wait and see what comes of this filing, but in the meantime, we’ve at least got you covered if you’re still finding the new Game Pass tiers confusing .
