Games For Windows Live Q&A
There's a Games For Windows Live Q&A on 1UP, asking Microsoft's Peter Moore and J.J. Richards why PC gamers would possibly want to pay for this service.
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Pneum0
replyOne thing i'm hoping for is the best developers don't subscribe to this. id and Blizzard I doubt will have anything to do with this.
The best example is the battlefield 3 one. We'd have to pay 50 dollars extra to get what we are already getting.
GFW: One developer says that, if he signs his game up for Games for Windows Live support, Microsoft's agreement blocks him from offering many Gold-tier features to nonsubscribers. So say, for example, that there's a Battlefield 3, and that it works with Live; that Gold users get voice-over-IP and can collect medals and all these other things that are already in Battlefield 2. Now we'd have to pay the premium for Gold accounts to access these features. The developer could no longer offer its own versions of voice-over-IP and stat tracking.
PM: I'll throw that back to somebody else to give you an answer. We'll get back to you on that.
