Windows 10's Store Locks 'Call of Duty' Purchasers Into Windows-10-Only Battles

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Every year, Activision releases another Call of Duty and gamers across the world scramble to get their hands on the new shooter. Fans love the single player campaign, but the game’s polished, fun, and fast-paced multiplayer mode is the real draw.

Of course, it only works if you have other people to play with. A few gamers who bought Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare through the digital storefront built into Windows 10 have discovered they can only play with other gamers who also bought the game from Microsoft. Xbox One players can only play with other Xbox One players, and PlayStation 4 players can only play with other PlayStation 4 players. This has always been the case. The trouble is that this time not all PC players can play with other PC players. For unknown reasons, Windows 10 Store customers are segregated from customers who bought the game from Steam, which is by far the most popular platform on PC.

That’s like buying a game from Target and learning you can’t play with people who bought it from Best Buy. Call of Duty fans who made the unfortunate of mistake of giving Microsoft their cash are left sitting in lonely multiplayer lobbies waiting for games that’ll never start.

However, it appears that Microsoft is giving out refunds.

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buying anything from the Microsoft store
ever

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just another snafu from microshaft and there games for windows live 2nd edition

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That's easy for someone with our knowledge base to say.

But Good old uncle Freddy who just plays games casually on the PC he bought to do spreadsheets isnt going to know not to buy from there.

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I wonder what Uncle Freddy is going to do in an empty lobby/server?! Maybe he'll get hip and return the game

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Not just ole uncle Freddy, also my brother-in-law, who's been playing CoD since the fist version... the problem is not with the consumers, it's with the dishonesty of the retailer here. Microsoft has never been honest, but they at least used to have honest enough products a long time ago... it's like with the 60 fps limit thingy... do you think Microsoft would allow the "feature" to be bypassed if the ney Sony PS wouldn't have had 4k support and crap? The Microsoft CoD version clearly has a problem with online playing with players who are not on Windows 10, players who do not a have an fps cap, players who do not have a system with a background overhead twice the amount of the foreground app load, players who do not have the added latency of a snooping "telemetry" intermediary.... guess everything is connected there huh?

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microsoft is going the way of the dodo
rip in peices

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so much so that they've released versions of CoD without single player campaigns...

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Quoted from the article.

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There's a simple solution for this.. don't buy the Windows Store version..

#Problem Solved

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Uhh... I just started a similar thread. Maybe an admin wants to merge them?