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Play More of the Games You Love, Wherever You Play with XBOX Backward Compatibility on PC (news.xbox.com)
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[โ€“] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Are you sure? This line from the post seems to indicate otherwise:

If you already own a digital license for these games on console, that license now carries over to your PC or handheld.

[โ€“] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nobody in 2003 bought digital licenses for the OG Xbox. Basically every current owner of these games (ex: Crimson Skies) will be forced to repurchase it to take advantage of the advertised "backwards compatibility".

This is not backwards compatibility as Microsoft claims, this is a PC port.