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Officer_543 · December 2016

so i was wondering how come you can push out updates on pc & not on xbox?some or even most pc's are Microsoft how does that work?

0x6A7232 · December 2016

PCs are pretty much 'free' as far as user control. XB1 is in Microsoft's walled garden. Microsoft has to approve anything that is allowed to run on Xbox. The user is allowed to install whatever they want on their PC (if MS tried to change that, there would be a huge outrage, even Mac OS X allows you a lot of freedom compared to a console).

dexter397 · December 2016

What I want to know is are we going to get both the precursor update and the bones update or just the bones update

DrownedOut · December 2016

dexter397 wrote: »

What I want to know is are we going to get both the precursor update and the bones update or just the bones update

Last I heard (I think yesterday or the day before on Discord), you will only get the Bones update but the Precursor update should follow quickly thereafter.

Officer_543 · December 2016

just woke up to see that bill gates is making a solar panel and also thanks for telling me the info

Captn_Mikro · December 2016

update coming soon, HAPPY DANCE @Twitter post

Flayra · December 2016

Yes basically it's a huge pain in the butt to release something on a console. We're not allowed to just release it, you have to apply for a "certification window" (which is often a week away), then you have to upload a build to them, fill out this time-consuming Word documents, they wait for them to test it, then they come back with a report telling you if it's OK to launch or not.

They often don't catch major deal-breaking issues, or we don't, which results in restarting the entire process. It's pretty painful for us.

But consoles are important to us as well so we want to support them.

Officer_543 · December 2016

flayra i know that is a pain just do what you're doing and we will be happy

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