No, You Don't Need to Pay for Xbox Live on Windows 10

<< LINK REMOVED >> you don't have to spend $1500 to play games on s PC. you can get a $400 $500 to play games on medium settings. and still look as good as on console. if you don't know how to build one. Look into someone that can help build it for you.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> No, that's not likely at all. Is there a non-proprietary app anyway? Unlike the Steam DRM, it's integrated into the OS so won't really require you start a program.like Steam.

<< LINK REMOVED >> Yes, the PC crowd is generally older, and it may be for that reason that I find it to be so much more hostile and less fun to play with.

I'll gladly endure a 12 year old's ranting about how he's slept with my mother over PC players who go ballistic when they perceive that I'm not performing up to their standards. << LINK REMOVED >> put it best, PC tend to act like "wannabe esport pros".

It's sorta like if you're playing a recreational sport that's supposed to be just for fun, but other players ruin it with their aggressive, win-at-all-costs attitude.

I wasn't generalizing I was speaking from my experience. The PC community is older but they act the most childish by far, since everyone thinks they some wannabe esport pro.

It's the reasons I don't play mobas. I like the game but the community is so garbage it ruins the game for me.

I game on PC and console, but I mostly plat rts games on PC.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Yea, jerks are universal.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Yes you do. You're streaming from the console to the PC. Learn to read before you start spouting bullshit. :)

Why would they stop making consoles? There's still a market for them. What you are going to say goodbye to is underpowered consoles, especially after all the 1080p/less powerful system stuff that fave Sony a huge lead in sales. There's plenty of ppl that would buy a prefab gaming rig in the $700 range I'm sure of it. No it wouldn't be marketed to the hardcore master race crowd, but it would sell to ppl that don't like building pcs or don't want to, or console gamers looking to ease into PC gaming which is pretty much all there is once windows 10 drops.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> There is no need for steam today really. There are plenty of alternatives. The reason steam is popular is because steam actually is good.

I hope they are invested though on pc as they have tried before with GFWL wich was god awful, didn't offer anything not already available on other services and inferior to steam in every possible way. And they never improved or updated it past what was it... 2009 or so.
If it is an alternative to steam that is a good thing for both steam and xbox. Competition is good.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> And streaming from xbox to pc will still render my xbox completely useless (except to play the few exclusives that won't go to pc) as it is something I'll never do. The major perk of consoles is to sit on the couch, using the big screen and soundsystem. If I want to game on my pc I'll actually use my much more powerful pc instead of using weaker hardware to deliver my gaming to a more uncomfortable area of my house. That makes no sense at all.
And we have multiple tv's so someone else wanting to watch tv is not an issue for me.
Streaming from pc to the xbox is a much better option if it could manage that at full HD/60fps. Because then I could combine the use of an open vastly more powerful platform with the comfort of livingroom gaming without the hassle of having a huge tower and desk in the livingroom.

I hope MS implement that function as both Valve and Nvidia is coming out with streaming tech for gaming from pc to tv. That would be another use for the xbox for "hybrid gamers".
As for the few exclusives that won't go to pc I can still play those without gold and if there is any of them I want to play online I can just buy a month for that game.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> it's an option "Xbox Live for Windows 10 will also support<< LINK REMOVED >>" will also means option, not a requirement.

<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> That was one a disaster not just a failure. ;) It's just odd how MS wants to kill off the xbox one when it was actually doing better than before. now with the stuff I mentioned above it's absolutely useless to have one at all.

Because steam OS is free and windows cost's quite a lot unless it's OEM, and if you're only planning on using it in a console to play games on, it does the job.