Damn, you mean that unlike Microsoft, they won’t wait for their certificate to expire and then have an entire day panicking why websites aren’t working?
As absurd as the price may seem, that is actually about how much money they make from selling user data. Of course, given their track record I don’t feel inclined to trust this “pinkey promise” of not selling the data in some form anyways.
You didn’t get a free copy of a game, you got a free limited license to a game. Sounds like it won’ work outside the walled garden MS built.