pokoko on 15 June 2017
Aaah, so THAT is what Microsoft is after. Very clever. Microsoft wants to pull users from other platforms into the Microsoft ecosystem.
NOW we know why Microsoft changed their policy. Let's go back to earlier this generation:
"Microsoft is not allowing cross-play completely; which means [War Thunder] cannot be on Xbox One." -- Gaijin Entertainment's CEO Anton Yudintsev
They didn't want to do it until they were in a position to gain a real benefit from it and now they act like the good guys. That's pretty amusing.
