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One of the big issues MS, and many other, companies will have is that it doesn’t work out like the Goldilocks story.
“Okay. That price was too high. Let’s dial it back just a bit, and it’ll be juuust right. ……Why aren’t people coming back?”
People burned by high prices will find alternatives, and can very quickly settle with the transition issues of those alternatives. The same has been found on conveniences like potato chips.
Exactly. People hate change and when you force them to change they will almost never come back if they find a decent alternative
For me it was Spotify. Their radio mixes were far too repetitive and I got sick of hearing the same songs so I shopped around, and I found out Tidal offers higher quality streaming at a lower price. Extra bonus: Tidal's radio mixes are far more diverse. Small caveat: not everything is on Tidal; some albums missing, some artists don't publish to it because Spotify and iTunes are the forerunners with most tech manufacturers supporting them natively (such as the Spotify integration in Bose hardware), whereas Tidal maintains the audiophile niche (only integrated with Sonos and Bang & Olufsen I believe).
I really want to move to Tidal, cheaper and better quality audio. I just wish they'd implement smart speaker support as that's the only blocker for my family.
Sure I can load up the app, play a song and select the speaker as a pkayback device, but for the rest of my house this is either too much effort compared to saying "play x", or they're minors without phones.
When I had enough, I researched how to get the games "cost-efficient". And to my surprise it was very easy, safe and guess what: affordable. Since then I "saved" around 500$ and only spend my money on some Indie Games... Even if the prices should now fall again and become acceptable, the probability that I will buy my games through the conventional way is low.