It seems that Microsoft and the Xbox Community learned nothing........at all.

Hello Core,

Keep in mind of the
Xbox forums guidelines with creating duplicate posts. These are being locked as there have been tons of these posts.

Thanks for bring the discussion to the forums. Xbox Live is one of the most reliable gaming networks available and in order to achieve that you have to pay for servers and engineers who optimize them/keep them running.
With free games with gold you earn that money back and then some due to able to get up to 40 free games a year.

Microsoft Rewards are a great way to earn Xbox Live Gold and other things without having to spend money by using Bing and other little tasks:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/rewards

For example when any game purchased you earn 4-6000 points, searching on Bing can earn 500 a day. A 25$ USD digital gift card is 25,000 points. Also, promotions are run frequently where they reduce the points needed for rewards. They also have
subscriptions you can get with the reward points.



As there have been many discussions concerning this issue I will be locking this thread. You can go to this discussion if you further want to discuss this
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/xbox-live-with-fortnite/0ff2df7f-564f-4371-af9f-91830b97a812

Hope this helps.





Thanks,

Brad

I don't think there'll be many issues at all, certainly nothing RROD level. Microsoft has learned and it seems they built this system for reliability where the hardware is concerned

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As others have said, Microsoft have made this decision easy for me, Xbox One all the way

Had enough bad experiences with PSN over the last 6 years thanks.

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The Ironic thing is, there are more then enough people who can say the same of Microsoft over the last 6 years for them to move to Sony and PS4. For me, its Sony who seems to have learned from their mistakes both in hardware choices and in services provided.
They have listened to their community and what developers needed from them and have turned their business model around to show this

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Microsoft have learned nothing, have not listened and have alienated many of their most loyal community with their choices going "forward"

I'm glad they are doing this and honestly expected nothing less. Microsoft seems to have learned since the launch of the Xbox one and if they continue to listen to customers the Xbox series X could be they're best selling console ever.

Im new to the forum but i have to ask, does Microsoft support look at these posting use this to learn about user issues, provide suggestions and fixes?

Seems like all companies make the users ask questions in the community forums and rely on other users to provide the answers instead of having Microsoft product support provide the answers.