Dear Microsoft. Why are you so strict about third party servers on consoles?

No one here is a Microsoft representative, and it is unlikely anyone in a public facing position would have, or if they did, be able to disseminate that infomation

I would speculate it's due to piracy issues, we see people here all the time asking us to support their pirate copies and illicit mods

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in the case with microsoft you are paying to access a third party server, it is a wall that should not be in place.

when you say free doesnt always mean better, microsoft and sony dont pay third party devs or publishers for the servers, the devs and publishers pay that as its included when you purchase the game.

so in essence microsoft does not pay for the game servers for third party titles and therefore is free to them.

I guess microsoft should use third party servers, so microsoft dosent have to pay for these same servers. Any thoughts?

a system is only as secure as the user makes it, all the platforms now have descent security, enabling 2fa is a no brainer these days, but dont forget that third party games pay for their own servers, Microsoft only uses the gold money for their own servers
for first party titles, profiles etc. your still being routed to third party servers when you connect to a third party game.

you pay to access live, but in fact you are connecting through a paywall to activisions servers not microsofts. it is activisions servers currently playing up. you will find that most if not all third party games online servers are hosted and paid for by the devs/publisher. so microsoft cannot fix the servers.