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Zkuq on 15 June 2017
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Barkley said:
Zkuq said:

I believe we've had the discussion about 'subscription-parity' before. Anyway, since it's already free on PC and changing that is practically impossible thanks to Steam, the only remaining option is to make it free on Xbox, just like you said. Considering how many Gold users (most of them probably quite happy) there are and how much money MS is making from them, do you think MS is going to do anything about it? Of course not. The lesser evil is to simply combine free and paid members into one userbase.

Personally, I loathe paid multiplayer when it's clearly not required for operating the online infrastructure. But people keep paying for it happily, so the companies keep charging for it.

Sure with PC, but not with a competitors console. Buy our competitors console and you an play our game for free, buy our console and you must pay us to play our game.

It's kind of worse imo when it's another console. You're giving a better service(free) to people that buy someone elses console over your own, all be it for one game at the moment.

The only thing they're getting is multiplayer in one game though. I wouldn't expect there to be enough cross-platform games using XBL to make Switch users pay for XBL too. And in addition to all the games, you get even more for your XBL subscription.

If you still have a problem, go file your complaints with MS. Of course you'd probably have to file your complaint with your wallet if you wanted it to count, but if you're paying for XBL, you're one of the people supporting the current situation. If you continue paying, you must obviously consider the lesser evil to be paying and playing instead not paying and not playing.

Like I said, I loathe paid multiplayer in most cases. In addition, I also vote with my wallet (which, to be frank, isn't difficult for me, because I don't enjoy online multiplayer on consoles very much).