Pay-to-play PC Shadowrun?

[A Black Falcon]

And what do we have here... complete confirmation of how stupid this move was.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200...-free.html

MS has given up on trying to get people to pay for Windows Live... and not only that, they announced that there will be rebates for anyone who was stupid enough to actually pay them. :)

They're redesigning the service to be more PC-like, too. Great moves. Oh, and DirectX 11 will indeed run on DX10 hardware... so you won't need a new videocard, like those 10.1 rumors said. :)