dear thread,les papillons sexuels said:If this is true, what's the potential for MS to be providing other publishers with a cut of the newly implemented $10 increase.
TBQH it actually seems like a very smart move on the part by MS to do this.
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jedimike said:The entire thread is a strawman. Nobody knows what is really in place. We do know that the xbox is a platform and they have to follow rules like antitrust laws. If they put a pricing model in place for one publisher, they would have to apply it to all publishers.
The same thing happened when EA wanted to use their own servers for sports games. MS accommodated the request and then had to offer the same deal to all publishers.
It's foolish to believe that Activation gets a piece of the pie but none else does. How would MS address the rest of their publishers? They would have no recourse but to give them all the same deal. Instead, it makes more sense to believe MS put a model in place that ensures equity for the publishers.