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Guru3D.com » News » Xbox One to restrict Skype to Xbox Live Gold members

Xbox One to restrict Skype to Xbox Live Gold members

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/09/2013 07:58 AM | source: | 32 comment(s)
Xbox One to restrict Skype to Xbox Live Gold members

Limitations, limitations and more limitations. If you want to experience many of the features that Microsoft has in store for the Xbox One console, you had better have a paid Xbox Live Gold subscription ready to go. Microsoft has confirmed several of the console's major features will require Xbox Live Gold access. 

In a page on the Xbox.com site, Microsoft has a list of all the Xbox One features that will need an Xbox Live Gold subscription.  Besides features like playing multiplayer games and accessing streaming videos apps that are already required for the Xbox 360, Xbox Live Gold members who own the Xbox One will be the only ones to use its Skype chat program, the OneGuide television guide menu, the SmartMatch multiplayer matching service and the Game DVR options that let gamers record, save and upload game footage.

Even Internet Explorer apparantly requires a Live subscription.







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lucidus
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#4634391 Posted on: 08/09/2013 07:55 AM
What's new? Xbox is borderline useless with Live gold.

kosh_neranek
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#4634429 Posted on: 08/09/2013 10:19 AM
EPICFAIL , :puke2: , FACEPALM

Nuwidol
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#4634468 Posted on: 08/09/2013 12:35 PM
Hmm, Headline should read: Xbox One to restrict Skype to Xbox Live Gold members until MS realises no one is happy & then it will be free for everyone.

lucidus
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#4634480 Posted on: 08/09/2013 01:03 PM
They said Xbox will be the new watercooler at the reveal. Will water also be held ransom for $60 p.a.?

VolkNasty
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#4634518 Posted on: 08/09/2013 02:59 PM
It's sixty bucks a year, who cares... Besides half the people won't even use the feature.

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