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@darylb24 if they manage to improve speed, they'll just use the extra bandwidth to fit in more dynamic ads, or fancy up the store, it's not going to add anything measurable to the user experience. For that matter, does the discord app affect performance? Surely it would have to be similar, if the app is open.

I don't use it, but I bet there are some games and communities utilise it heavily. It's the sort of thing that is mostly promotional for Xbox, and meant to generate a semblance of good will by promoting communities on the consoles. Getting rid of it achieves the opposite, and isn't worth the small financial incentive, IMO.
These companies will spend 100s of millions on bad marketing campaigns, or clearly unwanted products, then shoot themselves in the foot because someone high on the food chain has to appear to be doing something, to justify their existence.
I'd add that all this does is further decrease the incentive to stay within the Xbox, or Microsoft, ecosystem, but it's clear that that doesn't motivate them in the slightest. I can understand shipping out games to different consoles, but sending off your already existing customers isn't a great business model.

@Audiokrak it's genuinely amusing that you took the time to write out all that negativity. You're only contribution is a waste of your time to write, and also for the few that ever read beyond your Shakespearean opening.

It's a cool little hack.

@Ricky-Spanish significantly more headway has been made into backwards compatibility than lunar modifications by Microsoft. I'm not sure of the exact figure, but would suggest that the differential is so great as to render your anology pointless.

@MaccaMUFC I've currently got over 590 games installed, including all my games for gold stretching back almost 20 years. Why not? Most if the older games are in a 12tb HDD, while newer ones are either on an SSD or the expansion.
I like having the same convenient access to games that need installation as I do my old physical copy games, I don't think storage is that expensive, and I get years of use. $600 spent here and there on storage over the course of 5+ years is nothing, and I'm not loaded.

@Bassianus yeah, I bought a second expansion before I checked the back to see if there were two ports. It's wild to me that there isn't. As it is, I use one for my multiplayer games only, since I usually play them in binge stretches or not at all.

@PressR2 I was hoping they'd get hold of the alien isolation guy, for a definitive test of the stealth mechanics.

There's no way the game drags on as much as this review. The score could be accurate, but the reasons given stink, and could be cast in the opposite light with a few select word changes.