Windows 10's Store Locks 'Call of Duty' Purchasers Into Windows-10-Only Battles (vice.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Two Call of Duty games have been remastered for Windows 10, but if you buy them through the Windows 10 Store there's a problem. "Windows 10 Store players will be isolated from other PC versions of the game," reports the Windows Central site, noting a statement from Microsoft which implies that the decision was made by Activision.

"For unknown reasons, Windows 10 Store customers are segregated from customers who bought the game from Steam, which is by far the most popular platform on PC," reports Motherboard. "Call of Duty fans who made the unfortunate of mistake of giving Microsoft their cash are left sitting in lonely multiplayer lobbies waiting for games that'll never start."
Motherboard reports that at least one player successfully requested a refund, calling the situation "another black eye for a digital storefront that PC gamers already avoid like the plague."

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Re:Windows 10

[hyades1]

Can go FUCK itself with broken, rusty garden shears.

I could use that snotty "fixed that for you" meme, but I'd have to add, "In a way I think you'd like".

I will not use Windows 10. Well, I might reconsider if somebody figures out how to turn it into a hacked, broken bitch that publishes the private data of the entire Microsoft Board of Directors, the top 100 shareholders, and all of their families.

How much longer?

[Anonymous Coward]

How much longer are all of you who are still using a Microsoft 'operating system' (in quotes because it's a poor excuse for an OS to start with, but is now more 'malware', 'spyware', 'targeted advertising platform', and 'corporate/government citizen surveillance system' than anything else) going to put up with how much Microsoft Corporation craps all over your rights as a consumer?

Consider the following:

• They force code you didn't ask for and don't really want onto a computer that you own, purchased with your hard-earned money (pre-Windows 10)
  They use unfair tricks and out-and-out subterfuge to get an 'OS' onto the computer you own, purchased with your hard-earned money (so-called 'free upgrade')
  They lobby manufacturers to create hardware platforms, that you have to purchase, that lock out any other OS you might want to run (i.e. 'unsigned' OS's like Linux)
  They include so-called 'telemetry' code, so deeply embedded in their so-called 'OS', that in reality is not only spying on everything you do and relaying that very personally-identifiable information back to them (and who knows who else, like three-letter government agencies)
  They include deeply-embedded code that allows them to remotely examine any part of the filesystem of the computer you own, delete files, and otherwise completely and silently control your computer -- and you can't prevent any of the above, unless you completely disconnect your computer from the Internet
  They have instituted a campaign to annex and otherwise subvert Linux, being the only other OS you could possibly use anymore, so that they can, in the end, own that, too, and doubtlessly insert their spyware, malware, and surveillance software into the Linux, kernel, too
  They are aiming to destroy Apple, or at least Apple's proprietary OS, being the only other commercially-available OS on the market
  Microsoft is, once again, working diligently to create a monopoly on computing devices in general (desktop, laptops, tablets, phones, gaming platforms, etc), which is anti-competitive, which will harm *everyone* in the long run
  They're now working to prevent you from even *playing games* with anyone who is not part of their imperialistic computing empire (if you don't see that this is in line with everything I've outlined above, then YOU ARE IN DENIAL)

Scoff all you want at the above. Exercise your human ability to be in denial all you want. I'm not spreading 'fear, uncertainty, and doubt', here. I'm not some goddamned Internet troll. All the above is documentably true if you go look for all the past proof of it. So I ask you: Why are you still supporting a corporation that doesn't give a rat's ass about your rights as a consumer, your rights as a citizen of the United States, and in some ways your rights as a Human Being? Microsoft continually demonstrates that they don't care about you or what's good for you, they only care about building an empire, destroying the concept of a 'free market', creating a monopoly, at which time they will raise prices and take as much money as they can from you, all the while violating your privacy, and controlling hardware that YOU OWN, taking that control away from YOU, to the point where you don't even have control over what software is running it. Why are you still OK with this? How much longer do you think it'll be, before Microsoft institutes a 'ransomware'-like program (read as: so-called 'subscription' model) for their so-called 'OS' itself -- literally holding the entire computer ransom, every month? WHY ARE YOU PUTTING UP WITH THIS CRAP? If you choose to ignore all the above then you really need to take a step back from yourself and try to view all this objectively.

Windows 10 is officially malware

[Chas]

The antivirus industry needs to get together and work at stamping out this malware completely.