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Games For Windows Live Multiplayer Goes Free

RKRigney | July 22, 2008 | News | PC 
At the Gamefest 2008 event on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that all Games for Windows Live multiplayer features are now free. These features -- including multiplayer achievements, matchmaking, cross-platform play with the Xbox 360, GFW voice chat, and more -- previously required a GFW Live Gold account. The change is effective immediately and across all GFW titles, both past and future.

Other changes to the service were also announced, hit the jump for full details.
"At the Gamefest 2008 event on Tuesday, Microsoft announced that all Games for Windows Live multiplayer features are now free. These features -- including multiplayer achievements, matchmaking, cross-platform play with the Xbox 360, GFW voice chat, and more -- previously required a GFW Live Gold account. The change is effective immediately and across all GFW titles, both past and future."
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    Evil Parrot | July 22, 2008 | reply
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    And will this make 360 owners question why they have to pay?
    Yes.
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      Supernouva | July 23, 2008 | reply
      Free Xbox Live would be the answer to all our prayers.
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      Nath | July 23, 2008 | reply
      Probably, but they'll always have to. Microsoft has a monopoly on Xbox multiplayer- PC gamers generally laugh at the thought of having to pay for services like this, and I myself would never in a million years consider buying a game, unless it was an MMO with dedicated persistent servers, that made me buy a subscription such as "Live Gold Account" to play online. What's normal to you console people is laughable to the rest of us, and I'm glad that Microsoft realised this- I may consider some of these games now.

      But yeah, Microsoft doesn't have to worry about competition on the Xbox the same way they do on the PC.
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    Deathsythe | July 22, 2008 | reply
    So I can play Rainbow Six: Vegas without having to pay anymore? Sweet. No longer will my buddies and I all have to cram into one dorm to LAN, we can finally stay in our own rooms and play.



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