Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"

Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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  • Prove_your_argument@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • BlackAura@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh yeah that was when they announced you’d get copilot credits or whatever as part of Office 365 and bumped up the price.

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