When you see a neighbor’s beard shaving … you know, and it seems so Sony and Nintendo have decided to soak their beardsThe fact is that the success and notoriety of those of Redmond with their Xbox Game Pass, a game subscription service that revolutionized the industry, caused the first in which regulators set … but not the only one.

So, as we told you at the end of January, the British market and competition regulator urged Microsoft to make changes to the Xbox Game Pass subscription billing model. The goal of the changes indicated by the regulator pointed to several points, from the information that users receive when they first subscribe to the service, to the possibility of canceling the annual subscription and returning a proportion for the period they have not used and billing in inactive accounts.

The first point is to expand the information provided to ensure that users are fully aware that they are arranging a recurring payment service and that it is they who will cancel the automatic renewal. You should also be informed of the steps to be taken if the subscription has been made in error. And for inactive subscriptions, the company must contact the user, and if it is not successful, you will need to cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription fees.

And like I said, it was Microsoft at first, but now it’s Sony and Nintendo. And that’s how we can read in GameIndustry, Sony and Nintendo have decided to update the guidelines for their respective subscription services. online, precisely as a result of an inquiry conducted by the UK regulator, and which would undoubtedly go the same way in the services of both companies, thus avoiding the need to accept instructions from the regulator.

Sony has decided to implement new PlayStation Plus account management practices, including efforts to contact inactive customers and within a reasonable time stop billing for the service if it is not used. Nintendo, for its part, will ensure that auto-renewal is no longer enabled by default for new subscriptions. The measures, compared to those taken by Microsoft and Sony, seem to be attacking the origins of the risks, but I wonder if that will be enough for regulators.