Microsoft’s Bringing Xbox Live to Android and iOS

[MysticGon]

Thats pretty cool. I guess this is their solution for getting into mobile/handheld gaming.

So do people on mobile need to pay to play online if the game uses Xbox Live?

 

[bsigg]

Thats pretty cool. I guess this is their solution for getting into mobile/handheld gaming.

So do people on mobile need to pay to play online if the game uses Xbox Live?

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Nope.

 

[MysticGon]

Nope.

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Thats good then. If that remains the case, instead of charging people to play online they can push them to GamePass.

 

[thecaseace]

Microsoft are really growing the surface of the ecosystem here.

It'll be interesting to see what developers besides first and second party would want to use their APIs/SDK, what's the incentive?

 

[yyr]

So do people on mobile need to pay to play online if the game uses Xbox Live?

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Nowhere in the article is it mentioned that games on non-Xbox platforms would even offer online multiplayer, so this question may not even be applicable.

I mean, yeah, Minecraft does it. But that doesn't necessarily mean that the API will offer it.

Has anyone seen proof one way or the other?