Xbox Live on Windows 10 won't charge for online multiplayer

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The news of Xbox Live coming to Windows 10 was a bit confusing last week, but, slowly, details of how it'll work are surfacing. Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb recently responded to a fan on Twitter saying that Xbox Live Gold won't be required for online multiplayer using Live on WIn10 and mobile (like it is on consoles). Great news, right? Well, like The Verge notes, it should be for anyone who remembers the disastrous Games for Windows Live program that Microsoft tried implementing around 10 years ago. We reached out to the company for additional information and were told that there wasn't anything more to share at this time, but that'd change over the coming months.



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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/10/windows-10-xbox-live/

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GT-RPosted:

Even if they wanted to charge for it nobody would buy that shit. Multiplayer has always been free on PC and Microsoft knows that it would be a huge flop just like GFWL when they tried to charge for that pile of sbit too.

KatsumiChanPosted:

Earn It's a shame they don't do this for consoles and abit unfair.


Classic Console Gamer Response.

We PC Gamers do not pay for the right to play online. If they charged it would be "unfair"

NeeksRoyalPosted:

wow this will be pretty cool will never beat steam though.

JRMHPosted:

People complaining about it not being free on X1 are retarded... PC is an open platform, meaning, if PC gamers don't want to pay for Xbox Live, they'll switch over to Steam. It's simple. If you have an Xbox One, you don't have to pay for Xbox Live either, but you have no alternative like PC gamers do, lol.

EarnPosted:

It's a shame they don't do this for consoles and abit unfair.

DeluxeHazardPosted:

Now if only they did this for their consoles. :/

KatsumiChanPosted:

OhDiegoCosta Doubt this will ever happen on console. It makes sense on PC/Phone because they've never had to pay and changing that would be controversial


We just wouldn't pay for it lol. It would instantly die.

TimePosted:

For what Microsoft now gives us with our Gold subscription, I'm not going to complain.

OhDiegoCostaPosted:

Doubt this will ever happen on console. It makes sense on PC/Phone because they've never had to pay and changing that would be controversial

TMH_x_ModderPosted:

Tet
Erza Everyone here complaining about gold costing money that's how they make money to keep Xbox good


You had me laughing at "keep xbox good."

It never has been good.

"It has never been good"

I think your confusing Xbox live with PSN, we dont go down for months at a time


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