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Now Microsoft......what did we learn today?
We’ve gotta increase the price again to make up for those customers
Except they decreased it recently.
But not back down to the previous price.
Please drink verification can!
Basic economics? Drop your low-value customers for high-value customers, make more money for less support and infrastructure (and accounting and HR and payroll and...) This is Business 101. Two things kick my ass: 1) No one seems to get this thing. 2) Everyone acts like these leaching services are a necessity.
Drop them and move on! Choose an entertainment ecosystem that fucked you? Lesson learned. Move on. Still want it? Steal what you can. I have no idea what's on broadcast, cable or subscription TV. My home-rolled VPN is $6/mo., done.
Nothing...
Need to destroy the competition so that users don't have other options and must accept whatever prices we dictate.
No other options, must pay. :( The old timers had a word for how to fight such bullshit. Sounded like "shrike"? Something like that? Perhaps, "Buoy snot"? Anyway, they had some sort of spell by which they refused to give evil corporations their money. No idea how that worked, lost knowledge. (Queue 100 comments about Game Pass being a requirement for modern life, like electricity and water.)