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Originally Posted by Neil
Did I mention that 'Battlefield: Modern Combat' is coming to XBOX Live.....  |
At last!
I don't care about the sport games, & GoldenEye & Timesplitters will probably be poor, but BF....
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Originally Posted by fluds
http://www.theregister.com/2004/05/11/xbox_live_ea/
So if this report is true, how will the security work on third party servers and I have a suspision that EA will charge a monthly fee for access to thier servers to play thier games. Does not sound so good now, if what I think is going to happen happens. Or am I just being synical 
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I doubt you're being cynical.
EA's main sticking points about XBL were that they wanted control & they wanted to be able to charge. If M$ & EA have finally agreed a deal for EA games to be on XBL, then I wouldn't be surprised if you do have to pay extra to EA, on top of the XBL sub to M$.
Another thing EA apparently had wanted to be able to do was to "switch off" XBL access for their sport games each time a newer updated version was released (e.g. so that when the 2k5 games came out, the 2k4 games would no longer work on XBL & people would have to buy the "new & updated" one)...I wonder if M$ have agreed to that...