Well, one of the new things with Windows 10, iirc, was that it was going to support Xbox Live (http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/9/8175279/xbox-live-windows-10-free-multiplayer-gaming) yes? And by that I mean "baked into it". That'll probably be their excuse to make it required "Well, you should have it installed anyway since you have Win10 and it's 'free'."
It's pretty much a done deal that this shit is going to happen at any rate. I don't care what the reputation mangagement drones and fanboys want to say - microsoft does NOT spend 2.5 BILLION dollars for no reason whatsoever. They're going to milk this as much as they can, but before they can do that they have to oust the successful, freely mod-able PC version that made it all possible. Without that they won't be able to start charging for mods, etc the way they do on their console versions, etc. (Which shows the direction they really want to take it imo.)
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Date: 2015-07-05 08:32 pm (UTC)It's pretty much a done deal that this shit is going to happen at any rate. I don't care what the reputation mangagement drones and fanboys want to say - microsoft does NOT spend 2.5 BILLION dollars for no reason whatsoever. They're going to milk this as much as they can, but before they can do that they have to oust the successful, freely mod-able PC version that made it all possible. Without that they won't be able to start charging for mods, etc the way they do on their console versions, etc. (Which shows the direction they really want to take it imo.)