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The most interesting about this to me is Microsoft's case-study-awful handling of this; people are still befuddled as to whether this is the case or not, and the PR responses read like Jabberwocky.

It's like a politician deliberately following the mantra of "if you can't convince them, confuse them".

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I kindof assumed they would be leaving the decision of how much to charge up to the individual game developers, who set the price of the games to begin with.

What's more important is that Microsoft can, like Darth Vader, alter the deal.

They haven't been clear, but even if they were clear, the "facts" of how it works will remain uncertain, simply because it's remote controlled DRM and that's what DRM does.

And when do you think it's feasible to alter the deal?

This shitstorm surrounded the PS4 event. There are zero reasons this should catch Microsoft by surprise, so I can only assume this confusion is by design, since anything else would imply re-imagining our understanding of incompetence.

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