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this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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Eh, this is a case of them offering a better deal than actually ever made sense, because they expected the volume of subscribers to make up for it, but that never manifested.
Loss leader to buy market share. It was never going to be profitable at those rates.
Maybe before an Activision acquisition and the implosion of the console business model.