![]() ![]() Obviously the in-game purchases for free to play games makes sense for cross-buy so long as your stats and leveling also carry between the two. But not for things like Halo and Tomb Raider. I can imagine cross buy for things like threes and bejeweled, basically the more "appy" games. it doesn't mean they won't offer something like that.Īlso people wanting everything for free is silly, Microsoft promised crossbuy, but not every publisher will want to lose money like that, and they will keep selling any version separated. so only becuase Microsoft didn't talk about games like GoW or any other paid game that is coming to PC. like Windows Central making up 67million Windows 10 installations. We can read kotaku and all that, but Kotaku is not always right, and many sites with sources can make stuff up. Microsoft is talking here about free games, and even if GoW wasn't crossbuy, it doesn't mean other games will not be like that. It's like univeral apps or games, has Microsoft eliminated that? no! you can buy it once and use it everywhere. Really, how can Microsoft decide which developers/publishers Publish their game? Microsoft won't tell people "oh you can't have crossbuy games only content". people missundestood and then people claim it is real and the sky is falling. This article feels like everything Microsoft does. ![]() They have to consider the economics of the industry as a whole, not save you a couple of quid because you want as much free stuff as you can get. MS need to show publishers that they're going to increase their revenue or at least guarantee it doesn't fall. Because why develop for two platforms if they're only going to pull in a single revenue stream. If they start to pull too much revenue from publishers with this cross buy, publishers are going to see a big shift in the balance of their books and either stop making PC or Xbox games, and just make console exclusives or PS4/PC exclusives. You also need to remember that MS is the middle man between Publisher and Consumer. Plus it leaves open options to push out sales with things like "the Xbox one version, get the PC version half-price." The danger is, if you give 2 copies for the price of one, people will gravitate towards thinking "Why should I pay for 2 copies when I only want 1." Because that's what people do.
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