Quote Originally Posted by mbncd View Post
I'm willing to concede slightly on the XBONE vs PS4 issue, maybe they REALLY don't want their users fraternising with "the enemy".

But not letting them play with people on Windows PC's as well? That seems a little odd to say the least. Apparently Yoshi offered a XBox+PC server compromise but they wouldn't take that either and that really seems like they're being stubborn just for the sake of it and hurting themselves and their player base for bonus points.
This needs a bit of clarification. It's not that Microsoft doesn't want to 'share' with PS3/PS4/PC, it's that they don't want to share with the PS3/PS4. Given that PCs that run XIV are also running Windows, Microsoft has no issues with that. It's the other consoles Microsoft doesn't want to play with. This was the case with many other MMOs that have also been on an XBox, like Sega's Phantasy Star titles. Microsoft is pretty much all, "My way or no way." these days.