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MS Zone Users Must Use Passport Accounts

Posted by timothy on from the start-your-own-instead dept.

pathos writes: "CNet reports in this article that Microsoft, in its continued obsession to get everyone and his/her mother to be a registered Passport user, forced all of it's MS Zone gaming site users (including players of 'Asheron's Call') to open accounts in Passport in order to keep using the service... too bad that a bug with their .NET deployment kept many users not being able to access the service..." Of course, if you run the hotel, you get to say who uses the pool ...

3 of 451 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Sun & Microsoft. by interiot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You don't have to do brigssb's job for him...

  2. Re:I refuse to use Passport. by generic-man · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, shut up. I'm getting karma out of this. I just need to post one more knee-jerk negative reaction to something that Microsoft is doing, and I'll hit the cap.

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  3. heh, if you think THIS is bad... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    .. try to download a game patch for any game made by sierra (like halflife for example)

    then tell me how willing you are to pay $8 a month to gamespy for the priviledge of downloading PATCHES for games youve ALREADY PAID FOR.

    .. then just go get the patch from a warez site instead.