Oh no… anyway.
I have a conspiracy theory here: They raised the price that high, knowing it is too high, just to lower it again. Why would they do it? To have an excuse to remove Call of Duty from Game Pass.
Genuine question - why would they want to remove Call of Duty from game pass?
Microsoft owns the company that makes Call of Duty so in order to make more money they would want people to buy the game each year instead of just having game pass. The big hope being that someone both buys COD and subscribes to GamePass.
They already have, with the price decrease. It’s official announced. Because selling Call of Duty is a huge deal and makes lot of money. The game is extremely expensive and they don’t want to miss out on the revenue. Unlike any of their other games.
I think it’s even simpler than that; to find out what the maximum people really will pay is. The price has gone down, but not to what it was before. There’s still something like a 20% increase. If people go crawling back, MS has just figured out where the suckers are.
Yeah, that is also a strategy known to work: Increase 2 steps forward, “oh we hear you community”, step back 1 time, profit while looking like the good guy.
I was already not getting enough value from it, the price change sealed the deal for me.
Same, I had been paying for it for years and barely using it. The price hike was the prime motivator for me to cancel.
Eh, they might still be benefiting here.
If you double your prices and lose half your customers, you’re still coming out ahead – still making the same amount of money, while only needing to serve half as many customers, which lowers your expenses.
They raised the price 50%, not 100%. I’d agree with you if they didn’t quickly walk most of the hike back.
