iNvid02
Member
Introducing the new Windows Store. A one-step shopping experience across every Windows 10 device. Browse the store on your PC,
tablet or phone and easily download great free and paid digital content including apps, games, music, films and TV programmes.
Windows Store was first made available with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on February 29, 2012. Later in 2015, Windows Phone
Store, Xbox Video and Xbox Music stores were merged into Windows Store.
Windows Store will serve as a unified storefront for Windows 10 on all platforms, offering apps, Groove Music (formerly Xbox Music)
and Microsoft Movies & TV (formerly Xbox Video) purchases. Web apps and desktop software (using either Win32 or .NET Framework)
can be packaged for distribution on Windows Store. Desktop software distributed through Windows Store will be packaged using the
App-V system to allow sandboxing.
The top down initiative at Microsoft is to unify across all devices with the Win 10 store. To drive growth for the store and its UWP
(Universal Windows Platform) many Xbox titles will now also be coming to PC.
Xbox games coming to Windows 10
- EVERYTHING, ALL THE XBOX GAMES ARE COMING TO WINDOWS 10. ALL OF THEM.
Unlike regular Win32 games with .exe's, UWP apps are sandboxed and come with a variety of restrictions and limitations, although
these may not be pertinent issues for games and apps on other devices, for PC gaming these restrictions go against the nature of
the PC as an open platform for gaming. In addition, Win10 games can only be bought directly from the store.
- No SLI or CrossFire
[*]VSync is Always On
[*]GSYNC issues - Third Party Peripheral issues
- Always Borderless Fullscreen Mode
- No Modding
- No Overlays
- Phil Spencer acknowledging the list and confirming they need to improve
- Mike Ybarra says SLI/Crossfire will work but games need to support it, goes on to say they will fix Vsync
- Phil Spencer's interview with PCGamer once again acknowledging the fact that they are aware of 'the list'
- Select titles will benefit from cross-buy promos, pre-order Quantum Break on Xbox One store to get Win10 version free
Currently the Win10 store is the sole place to purchase games from, resulting in a lack of discounts usually offered by third party
vendors such as Amazon or GMG. However, there were ways to purchase games from other regions of the store to take advantage
of the different regional pricing.
Notable deals included Rise of the Tomb Raider for $9 and $13 from the Ukrainian and Indian Win10 Store regions.
Discussion and instructions are included in the linked thread, however recently there have been reports of billing information
being declined indicating that Microsoft may have patched this now. Most likely patched