jakinov
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Ultimately Microsoft/Xbox is still a business. There's always probably something they can do more for the benefit of the consumer. But there has to be a balance that makes Microsoft a decent growing amount of money in the end. I don't think demos are behind paywalls? BETAS and F2P because they ultimately still use the native online services. I don't think Xbox Live got cheaper? Pretty sure if anything both went up in price.It's crazy some of the recent points made tbh......What are the PRO consumer things that Phil have done exactly...
1. Give lots of great games to gamers the last 6 years?
2. Move demos, betas and F2P's etc behind paywalls?
3. Decrease on XBLIVE subscription prices, whilst the competition increases theirs?
4.Offer more Crossplay games to their base than the competition?
5. Improve their Windows Store, add mod support, make it les clunky, get more games on there so it could be viable?
The worse is that people talk about MS offering PC support, when I made the thread on MS games going to steam, I thought they'd announce all the Forza's, Gears and the rest of their gaunt lineup being ported to steam.....So they'd announce at E3, Gears Remake, Gears 4, Forza 7, Horizon 3, 4......Hell, where are ports to Horizon 1, 2, forza 4+5, Gears 2+3 on their own store....They could have made all that available on PC....What about porting the Project Gotham series to their store+steam……...Halo MCC is still missing in action on PC, on their very store, talking about drip feeding a 5 year old remaster to PC from original games which are much older......By that time all these games release or if they release them all, I'd most probaby have played a bunch of next gen games, with great physics and AI that make these look like PONG...So keep telling MS they have al the time in the world.....Next year, X018, this E3, you wait it's coming....Then you realize you're already old and grey and sitting next to Phil at an old people's home...And he's still promising things, power of the cloud, revolutionizing PC gaming, services......Like a programming loop with no end code....
It's crazy, but People are pretending that MS is selling Linux to people......MS is the creator of the Windows platform, they have a store.....Should anyone beg MS to put their games on PC/on their store or allow Steam support? Should anyone tell MS to fix their store or allow mods or Win32 support? Creators of Direct X you say......I think these creators are long gone.....There's only an empty carcass left...….
I think what needs to be done is to divorce Phil the MS employee from a Trillion Dollar company to Phil the guy in charge of XBOX and what he has delivered to gamers this gen......What they've promised from 2013 and what they've actually delivered 6 years later.......
In regarding to porting everyone to STEAM/PC. It takes time/money to port games. They never promised they were going to port every old game to PC. All they basically said before was basically they'd release new games on PC. Even porting from Windows Store to steam takes time because they have to remove all the UWP stuff and integrate with the new XBL APIs while integrating with Steam APIs as well. They also never promised that existing Windows Store exclusives would come to Steam; they only said that games in the future will launch on multiple stores. Also Halo: MCC isn't missing; they said it's coming by end of the year.
The DirectX developers are probably mostly still at Microsoft. I don't think a lot of external developers have problems with newer versions of DirectX and like it? So I don't know what would make you think they are long gone? The kind of work they do probably isn't done at a lot of other companies if they specialize or like that kind of work.