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Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 109 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Microsoft had a movies and TV store?

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They did. It was so awful with hardly any updates. I bought some things on it but usually when it was on major discount and connected to Movies Anywhere so I could watch it elsewhere.

    I don't know why they had the same movie for sale... one with bonus features, one without... for the same price. Every other platform includes the bonus features automatically. Why separate them? Is there someone out there thinking, hmm... I like this movie, but I don't want the bonus features.

    It was doomed to fail.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Movies Anywhere was the whole deal for me. With Microsoft connected, I used MA for its wishlist to indicate when things were on sale. Sometimes MS had a sale when other services did not! But that's it.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    I own a couple that were only distributed in this region that way in an acceptable format for weird reasons related to localization. And then I moved internationally a couple of times and the Microsoft store REALLY isn't willing to understand that's a thing that can happen. It's been a bit of a mess and one of the multiple reasons to not use MS's store as a package/software manager in the first place.

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