This isn’t a good sign. And it’s probably time to ask whether it’s really worth it. Microsoft considered doing a virtual world for its Xbox Live service in 2003 or so. It decided not to because of the estimated resources it would consume, according to Shane Kim, general manager of Microsoft Game Studios.
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The Home open beta now won’t be available until this fall. That’s pretty late in the console war to get a key, differentiating service off the ground.
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