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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by pelasaco on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:40PM (#29984611)
Unfortunately they didn't support their own game engine as they could: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA

Stardew Valley and Terraria were actually IMO the best games produced with that

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Re:Microsoft to Acquire Activision Blizzard by pjmlp on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @08:18AM (#29993215)
That you have to thank the traditional WinDev vs DevDiv political wars.

As usual the .NET product (XNA), got replaced by a C++ one (DirectXTK).

https://walbourn.github.io/welcome/

They acknowledged they should have behaved better, years later with the new management adding support for MonoGame on the XBox,

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2016/03/14/letter-chris-charla-i...

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