Yet you did, because you're desperately trying to have the last word.

Not that it's my place, but I've been watching this exchange since it started. If I was ever given as many chances as Big was just now, I'd have never been banned.

I'm not debating it or attacking your decision to not ban or moderate. In fact, I wish more mods were like you in that you don't swing a banhammer to solve all problems.

The world's a strange place.

I personally think this is all a bit silly.

All MS has done is allow more users to enter into the Xbox Ecosystem.

If you currently have a PS4 and a capable gaming PC then you now can get an Xbox Live Account and buy MS first party games.

If you have a PS4 but don't like PC gaming then nothing changes for you. You would still have to buy an Xbox console to play MS exclusives if you wanted them.

If you have an Xbox One already and don't like PC Gaming nothing changes for you.

If you only PC game and don't like consoles then you now can enter the MS ecosystem and buy MS exclusives.

IMO this is why Microsoft now looks at active Xbox users/ month as a gauge rather than Xbox One sales.
They want to increase the active userbase of Xbox players whether its Console or PC. And by reading here many users who never intended on buying and Xbox One will now have Xbox Live accounts and play them on Xbox PC.

None of this news is bad for MS, its shareholders or the gamers.

No, this is a good move for the Xbox brand, the fact that "console warriors" on the other side are getting nervous about and trying their hardest to downplay it says it all.

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then you are missing so many excellent games exclusives for not liking sony, like the last of us (300+ GOTYs awarded, thus becoming the most award winning game of all time), bloodborne (92+ on metacritic), until dawn, heavy rain, the last guardian, shenmue 3, 90% of anime games, uncharted, infamous, detroit become human, etc

um exclusives? like the last of us (300+ GOTYs awarded, thus becoming the most award winning game of all time), bloodborne (92+ on metacritic), until dawn, heavy rain, the last guardian, beyond two souls, uncharted, infamous, detroit become human, wild, horizon, etc

nervous? look at those xbox sales, ugh

The games that Microsoft are giving away for free on the PC isn't without it's flaws.

They need to fix V-Sync, SLI/Crossfire and it seems the games are rendered in a borderless window, which on some hardware configurations can have a massive performance hit.
It also denies overlays from the likes of Steam, Origin etc'. Which doesn't bode well for Microsoft winning over PC gamers. (And thus various Streaming and Video chat solutions are also non-functional.)
It also only has the games exclusively in the Windows 10 store, forcing people to use Windows 10.
The games also forgo any mod support.

I doubt Microsoft will be "moving" gamers away from the Xbox to the PC if they continue to make the exact same mistakes as they did with Games for Windows Live. I.E. Trying to make PC gamers play games like a console gamer, there are certain things PC gamers want and expect and Microsoft is not willing to meet that just yet... And until they do, this will merely be a "Checkbox feature" that might placate a small subset of gamers.

There is no need to be snarky.

Many people in this thread have raised all conceivable valid reasons someone would still want an Xbox One, there was little point in my repeating them.

The very first comment that the OP makes is that Xbox is now a service. Before making the (in my opinion mistaken) assertion that this has devalued the brand. I was attempting to illustrate what Microsoft is intending to achieve, and the impact their success would have on the console landscape.