"There will be a benefit for customers who purchased gold subscriptions on Windows," Unangst told Ars Technica. "Proactively, we will be offering refunds for those with Windows-specific Gold subscriptions. Customer service has already begun to get communications prepared."
Many Games for Windows-branded PC titles including Bungie's Halo 2 and FASA Interactive's Shadowrun required a subscription to make use of features such as matchmaking and cross-platform play, effectively requiring a subscription for functional online multiplayer experience.
Games for Windows Live formerly featured a pricing structure similar to that of the Xbox 360's Xbox Live online platform, with Gold subscriptions costing $49.99 for a year, $19.99 for three months and $7.99 for a one-month subscription.
How many times does it have to be repeated? You only had to pay for Gold. Which means you were paying for ranked matchma...
I think all they proved was that pc gamers aren't the rubes that console gamers are. Pay for stuff I already get for fre...
What other choice did they have really? Keep the money(which amounts to a pittance in the scheme of things) and take all...