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Dawn of War 2 and Games for Windows Live, part 2

Posted in Dawn of War by Someguy on July 17th, 2008

As we all know, Dawn of War 2 will be using Microsoft’s Live as the back-end for multiplayer matchmaking and etc. In contrast to other games that use the Live service, Dawn of War 2 will feature free “gold” membership service for its users.

It looks like IGN read about this on the Dawn of War 2 Community Site and got to talk to the senior global director, for Games for Windows, Kevin Unangst. The question that IGN asked was “Why make this service free for Dawn of War 2?”. This is what Kevin said,

“It was important when we talked to Relic that they be able to bring that full, unapologetic multiplayer experience to their gamers. They wanted to announce the game coming to Games for Windows - Live at E3, so we have a relationship with them and that’s what we worked out. You’ll continue to see movement from us on this front relative to what else we may be doing with Games for Windows - Live sooner than later.”

Sounds like Relic didn’t want to charge players for the multiplayer experience.

IGN: E3 2008: Microsoft Talks Games for Windows

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Posted by Andreas at July 17th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

Obviously, Relic will get the service for free by Microsoft, because Microsoft will get Dawn of War 2 on their Xbox 360.

The not so random hand of fate delivers DoW2, to Xbox 360.

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