I'm not a hater also, neither a fanboy!
Don't think Microsoft is the only one to do that, hehe. EA with Origin do same thing with s**t :-).

When i saw what means to own a console, how much you must pay to have free PC content :-)), how much you must wait to see if you can use modding on your game (lot of times impossible), how many times can't play because network down or not available... etc i said no to that choice.
But who loves it loves it, that's good for them.

The problem is that all over the road we walk these days, everybody try to squeeze money from you and keep you blocked in sh**y connections with their interface, or whateva and in fact not let you live life.

So, they can do that if we all pay and accept them.
And seeing how many sheeps comes around... huh. Please understand what i say and not come with arguing for sustaining corporations... Just see how many complains are all over the place about what happens now.

It is a transition world and it will pass long time till things will chill down a bit with some reasonable platforms and solutions for all.

That's why i hoped here will find a new way. And still do.

Here i found an article about steem blockchain power which is showing its weakeness. Maybe you can read that posts from:

@elfspice

He has a good point of what is going on here and with steem.

And regarding ETH and Microsoft, i'm sure i read it in my first days of crypto news, almost 2 weeks ago.

I will make a simple article with links to details, to just point that out if you are interested and we can speak there.