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Age of Empires Definitive Edition exclusively in the Windows Store
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Jangowuzhere
Banned
You're delusional if you think the Windows Store has any chance of reaching Steam numbers.
Hatefilled Vengeance
Member
In for the achievements. Don't play on PC enough to give a shit what store it's in.
Lister
Banned
Not sure if serious.
Goalus
Member
I think it makes sense to hope for a release on Xbox as keyboard and mouse will most likely be officially supported input devices on Xbox in the future.
ATOMICJORGE
Member
Thanks exactly it would be insane to do that
Kent
Member
If you're having problems with the Windows Store, make sure you're on the latest Windows 10 update (version 1703, build 15063.632 is current as of right now).
After that, Start -> Settings -> Update & Security -> Troubleshoot -> Windows Store Apps.
It'll probably fix them, as it runs through most of the common solutions you'll find online. If it doesn't, you can probably fix them by resetting Windows.
After that, Start -> Settings -> Update & Security -> Troubleshoot -> Windows Store Apps.
It'll probably fix them, as it runs through most of the common solutions you'll find online. If it doesn't, you can probably fix them by resetting Windows.
AcceptableGhost
Member
I am done dicking around with the Microsoft Store. No thanks. Will check it out if it hits Steam (or any other store).
I've been saying this for like two years.
It's baffling.
The best kind of buttfuck
DalikSkywing
Member
No steam no buy. Fuck off with that Xbox live bullshit.
After the shitshow that was my Lumia 950, plus the closure of Groove, I'm a little nervous about buying from the Windows Store. Plus I'm also a Linux user, and Steam is great for a mixed Windows/Linux user with no Xbox like me. I've got nothing against the Store, I'd just rather wait for the wrinkles to iron out and for the platform to prove itself.
+1 for "I'll wait for Steam".
+1 for "I'll wait for Steam".
It would still use the same backend infrastructure as the windows store so i don't really see the reason.
Unless you are talking about having all of your games listed in the xbox app, thats already in there. Although i would rather just use the start menu, taskbar to launch my games. I don't want to go through another app.
The Pet of the Month
Member
I'll pick it up on the Windows Store, especially if they bring it to Xbox One with k+m support. I've been eyeing a few changes to my living room to accommodate this.
I wonder how many franchises it takes for Microsoft to understand that nothing can save the Windows Store from itself. No system seller can help alleviate that. Hell, even a somewhat functional app store should see some massive apps using it to provide easy, centralized updates to customer, and yet, everyone is avoid it like the plague. There's a reason there.
Speaking for myself, a game doesn't need to be on Steam. GOG is excellent as well. Even clients such as Uplay and Origin, which offer me no incentive to use them, and ultimately force people to by dangling exclusives on a pole, I would use if I really wanted to play something (I believe Might & Magic X - Legacy was the last one that I recall for Uplay). The Microsoft Store is something else...
LordBaztion
Member
that's a good way yo not split community. Most players won't bother to drop AoE2 HD for this, then.
Creators Update hasn't released outside of preview yet.
Age of Empires 3 released like a decade late on Steam.
And even if we restrict things to Digital Distribution, it was on a different version of the Windows Store well over a year before it moved to Steam. I got it for 10 cents during some promotion. Of course, Microsoft laughed all the way to the bank with my dime, since my access is lost in the ether.
I had to disable/uninstall game bar/xbox related things because it was making league of legends stutter every 2 seconds(doesn't take it away completely but does make a huge difference) and as such couldn't get into beta anymore so that's the hardest pass anyone could possibly ever make for me.
ferrasvansen
Member
Ah well not for me then, I've had so much bother with the windows store there's no way I'm buying anything there again.
I've said this a few times now, but that Microsoft created a Steam <-> XBL network API that was beta-tested in Rise of Nations and, more to the point, then implemented in Killer Instinct has me firmly believing it's only a matter of time before WinStore exclusivity becomes a thing of the past.
Yeah I think Microsoft knows by this point that most PC gamers aren't interested in the Windows 10 store and probably just want to make as much money on PC gamers by releasing their games on Steam as well.
A Black Falcon
Member
If the Windows Store was just another storefront, this would be entirely fine. But since it's a walled garden, MS's attempt to destroy most of what is great about PCs by adding in licensing fees and such, this is not fine. I agree that it's unlikely that AoE Definitive Edition will stay Win10 Store-exclusive forever, but that they keep pushing this, their not-really-Windows separate mobile or console-style storefront, is really not good.
And it's kind of a tragedy here, because while it has aged in some ways, Age of Empires was a great game at the time and still holds up reasonably well. I hope that this edition adds being able to queue unit production in buildings though, that's one big thing I missed when I played some AoE 1 again recently for the first time in a long time...
And it's kind of a tragedy here, because while it has aged in some ways, Age of Empires was a great game at the time and still holds up reasonably well. I hope that this edition adds being able to queue unit production in buildings though, that's one big thing I missed when I played some AoE 1 again recently for the first time in a long time...
I have no problems downloading and installing games from GOG or Steam. So far I have not successfully installed a single game on the first try from the windows store.
If my limited computer experience is good enough for GOG and Steam then I will buy my games at those stores instead of the store that forces me "learn how to use a computer".
it's annoying because Microsoft had a great UI for a game client right under their nose - the Zune software.
They shipped this UI in 2006. Steam took 10-11 years to catch up to this design. All they had to do was put games in the left part, game info in the center, and extra stuff in the right. Go look at the Steam client now, it's pretty much this now.
Even in current Windows 10 you have to, for reasons I will never understand, go digging in small icons in the UI to even download games you've bought.
They shipped this UI in 2006. Steam took 10-11 years to catch up to this design. All they had to do was put games in the left part, game info in the center, and extra stuff in the right. Go look at the Steam client now, it's pretty much this now.
Even in current Windows 10 you have to, for reasons I will never understand, go digging in small icons in the UI to even download games you've bought.
_Aaron_
Member
It will sell badly.
A year later, MS will release it on Steam with Windows 7 support, just like Halo Wars, Quantum Break and Killer Instinct.
Then the people who bought it on the Windows store will complain about not being given the Steam version for free while Windows Store version craps itself and fails to install.
A year later, MS will release it on Steam with Windows 7 support, just like Halo Wars, Quantum Break and Killer Instinct.
Then the people who bought it on the Windows store will complain about not being given the Steam version for free while Windows Store version craps itself and fails to install.
Teknopathetic
Member
To be fair, Zune interface was ridiculously far ahead of *everyone*.
Grim Patron
Member
great news!
TemplaerDude
Member
They severely misjudged my desire to play this.
I will be taking a pass on this game, sadly, or not, since I have a working-just-fine version of AoE on Steam.
I will be taking a pass on this game, sadly, or not, since I have a working-just-fine version of AoE on Steam.
Katana_Strikes
Member
I'll wait till it releases on other stores, thanks for the warning.
You confuse with Fall Creators update. Creators Update was released back in March. MS has been trying to push it to me since August and I have"Defer feature updates" enabled.
LukasTaves
Member
WTF?
boneyjangles
Member
Honestly I expected this to be on Steam, but Cuphead not, weird.