> Too bad there aren’t any other games trying that whole cosmetic thing out that could maybe act as a sort of guide to implementing loot boxes and progression systems that don’t send their player base into open rebellion.

XBox Live Gold is ~$50/yr. With that you get four free games a month - that you own even if you discontinue the service. 12*4 = 48 games per year. If 1/2 or even 1/4 of them are ones you want to play then that is still a huge value. I already have a backlog of GwG games.
I don’t understand why anyone would want this…

I got myself an Xbox One. The last console I bought was a Wii. We now have a 50” HDTV and the Wii looks very sad on it - but is still fun, and I still have games I want to finish (Okami). Anyway, I also took advantage of the $1.00 Gold membership and the MS end of year sale. My 500GB HD is already over half full.…

I visited their offices one summer back in the day when I was a wee nerdling. Unfortunately, all the devs were out of the office at camp. I still have a collection of original Infocom boxes.

Except for the open ports and web server she had running.