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Originally Posted by Xero
But that's extra work and involves third party programs for the most part. Granted, you can't get XBox messages when you're on the computer, but it's just as easy to give those people your contact info to do exactly what you suggest. It's really no different than PC gaming except for the fact that, when it comes down to it, there's one standard across the board for XBL, there's no one standard for PC gaming.
At best your argument is that the person has to get up from their computer and move over to the console when someone IMs them instead of launching a program.
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You're making it out like running a third party program is such a daunting task that makes it useless compared to a standard messaging system.
*Click* Oh hey, I installed Skype. Boom.. now I can talk to my friends in
any game. Mountain out of a molehill.