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Live Service on XP Confirmed

The semi-official Gamerscore Blog run by Microsoft employees confirmed in the article "The Sixth Tech Myth" that Live Service will be available on Windows XP.

"When Cliffy B demoed Gears of War for Windows at E3 2007 to a throng of enthralled attendees, he let drop at the end of his presentation that Gears would be available for both Windows XP and Windows Vista this year."

"You should all breathe a sigh of relief and know that Games for Windows -- LIVE will work on Windows XP."

"... the team has been able to go back and finalize the work done to make sure Games for Windows -- LIVE works on Windows XP. Which means that not only Gears of War will connect to LIVE on Windows XP, but so will the other games we announced that will support Games for Windows -- LIVE, like Universe at War from SEGA (which, incidentally, will also enable cross-platform play between Xbox 360 and Windows PCs)."

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[via worthplaying.com]

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Five Tech Myths - extremetech.com | By: ShiftyLookingCow

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Published: 842 days 21 hours ago | News | Xbox 360 | PC

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Sayai jin - 842 days 23 hours ago

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Yep, we all knew this was coming. LIVE Anywere.

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anthraxCZ - 842 days 21 hours ago

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"Pay anywhere"

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ShiftyLookingCow - 842 days 19 hours ago

2.1 - Heres a quote from the original article to which the sixth myth was added

"Games for Windows Live: Must Pay Micro$oft $$$

It is true that Games for Windows Live is a premium service, and has an annual fee associated with it. The confusion revolves around what exactly you get with the free (Silver) version, and what you get for extra cost (the Gold version.) As GfW Live evolved, Microsoft kept updating us on the features, and some of the stuff that Redmond initially suggested would cost money got moved into the "free" column.

I still see people post that they'd never pay money just to get voice chat. Please, let's just stop. Voice chat is something built into the free GfW Live Silver account. What you get with the premium $50 per year version is matchmaking services and game achievements.

I also need to note that if you already have a Xbox Live Gold account, then GfW Live Gold is folded into that at no extra cost.

Now, if Microsoft would stick with this and not change their story again, maybe this meme will die out."

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Vip3r - 842 days 21 hours ago

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So does this mean you have to pay M$ to play PC games online then?

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Kareem - 842 days 21 hours ago

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Nope, you can play for free using a silver account.

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deadpreacher - 842 days 6 hours ago

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No you can still play online for free. Just you going to have to still use the old ways you where doing it before in all your other games. Gamespy or what ever else people use these days.

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Waffle-boy - 842 days 20 hours ago

4 - Nice

For those who already have gotten Live Gold.

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Daxx - 842 days 20 hours ago

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I already have a XBL gold account so I might as well take advantage of this whole XBL on Windows thing.

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anthraxCZ - 842 days 19 hours ago

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If you own Gold Account on Xbox Live (Xbox360), you also got a Windows Live Gold membership (PC).

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doshey - 842 days 19 hours ago

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now live can get hack through the pc and once that happens or if it does xbl will be hacked

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anthraxCZ - 842 days 18 hours ago

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Isn't that the reason to celebrate? :)))))

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deadpreacher - 842 days 6 hours ago

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Sure maybe something far down the line might happen, doubt it though. Yet i would watch on the other side of the fence for hacks before LIVE does. At least we know LIVE will get fixed if it does.

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brodels - 842 days 18 hours ago

7 - steam

Steam FTW! Microsoft can't compete with that on the PC platform if they make you pay for Live

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Waffle-boy - 842 days 13 hours ago

7.1 - Good point

And with the whole "Steam Community" it will have lots of fresh things similar to Live.

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DrPirate - 842 days 8 hours ago

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Steam for the win brother!

Down with the hell on PC gaming that is Games for Windows Live.

I've been a PC gamer way before I was into console and I'm still a diehard PC gamer. DOWN WITH WINDOWS LIVE!

Steampowered is where it's at!

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miked808 - 842 days 17 hours ago

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Will I be able to play HALO 2 on my XP Pc?

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Waffle-boy - 842 days 13 hours ago

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You can already play Halo 2 on XP though, using a hack, of sorts.

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dinkeldinkse - 842 days 5 hours ago

8.3 - who cares

halo is destroying microsoft
Halo sucks
Killzone rules
Arftards

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Sashy - 842 days 17 hours ago

9 - Oh my god noo!

I will not pay for some fu**ing live now! Never!

I want to play my PC games online for free and thats it!

Crap microsoft, just wanna lay hands all over the money!

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Kigmal - 842 days 16 hours ago

9.1 - A free Silver account

lets you play online for free. If you have Xbox Live Gold on Xbox 360, you also have Xbox Live Gold on PC. Everything is linked.

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hfaze - 842 days 16 hours ago

10 - Uh Oh... A "Vista Only" feature coming to XP? ;-)

I'm just waiting on the announcement that DX 10 will be officially back-ported to XP... That would be HILARIOUS, but a VERY welcome thing...

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JustCallMeDaddy - 842 days 14 hours ago

10.1 - OMG... this sucks

every day there are less reasons to get vista. Lets see, the only feature left that you can do on vista and not on xp computers is only DX 10(for video games).

everything you can do on vista can be done on xp as well, damn you microsoft.

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ShiftyLookingCow - 842 days 14 hours ago

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did you guys even read the extreme tech article posted there?

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MK_Red - 842 days 12 hours ago

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For years PC gamers have been getting online play, maps and much more for free. Now MS wants to make money from this thus bringing Live to non-Vista XP which is another blow to Vista.

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