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J_Allard said:
Because those games use MS servers for matchmaking and the Live features. You know, the very things that make Live online play so much better. Servers and infrastructure that MS invested billions into.

So you're paying to be put into a particular game lobby built by the devs, running on the devs hardware or p2p. Makes sense to be locked out of using what's already there.