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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 82 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Rent-seeking is definitely a sign of a financially-healthy company. Yup. No red flags there.

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[–] gian@lemmy.grys.it 28 points 3 weeks ago

More than that is a sign that this idea that the next quarter must be always better than the past one cannot work indefinitely.

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[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 14 points 3 weeks ago

Rent-seeking is just late stage capitalism. You'll own nothing and you'll be happy.

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