> "Hopefully that will help Microsoft see that's a good strategy for making customers happy, that the barbarians won't tear down the walls of Xbox and turn it i

> "Hopefully that will help Microsoft see that's a good strategy for making customers happy, that the barbarians won't tear down the walls of Xbox and turn it into some chaotic wasteland." When Microsoft relaxed the XBox Live rules for Activision and EA, both of those companies wasted no time in adding aggravation for their customers and removing functionality. So while Valve may behave themselves, opening the door altogether would almost certainly be a net negative for gamers. I'd much rather Microsoft create an XBL standard for microtransactions, cross-platform chat and cloud saves.