Microsoft now believes PC gamers should be able to choose where to buy games

Embrace
Extend
Extinguish
microsoft is just following their core values

If you are gigapoor and don't have enough money for... well, anything else.

>We believe you should have choice in where you buy your PC games
I would believe that shit when they release DRM-free builds. Until then, Microsoft can fuck off.

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WAKEY WAKEY HONORABLE CHAIRMAN

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BASED MICROSOFT

>Villain becomes good
>He starts helping the hero
He truly is doing it For The Players.

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good fuck chinks

Trust me when I say we don't want cross platform with you console niggers, we actually like having competent players no our teams.

Steam supports Denuvo, Games for Windows LIVE, Uplay, THQ Nordic Online, SecuROM, et al. If anything, this is just another brick in the wall.

It depends, out of the 3 Nintendo is the most dependent on hardware sales since they generally refuse to sell at a loss, the other two sell at a loss all the time and it tends to hurt them much more if they have a soft generation.

It never made sense to not have both their windows and gaming departments piggybacking off each other.

They owned the dominate gaming OS. Probably could've beat Valve to the punch or achieved a respectable market share before Steam became a juggernaut.

But they fucked it up and now they're reevaluating their position. Honestly good for them. Being the only publisher that has both a sizable console audience and a pc audience could be used to make a niche. I don't know how, but nobody else is in that position.

epic on suicide watch

>epic attacks microsoft
wut? what happened?

>Majority of money comes from software sales, not hardware. Microsoft finally fucking realized that.
Oh agreed 100%. That is why UWP exists, that is why Xbox is having its most profitable period ever. But Steam sales are 60% M$. and M$ store games are 100% M$. PLUS they get a cut of third parties they sell on their store. So what am I missing? I get doing Halo since it is basically just a good graces/marketing thing. But why more games?

>>Tim Sweeny
Who?

He criticized Universal Windows Platform. This is also the very reason of why Valve began to throw money at Linux gaming. Now, UWP is dead and Sweeney has praised Microsoft again.

Sounds like Microsoft is trying to kill themselves, exclusives sell consoles, you shits have been saying it and living by it for years.

>60%
*30%.

>One of the higher up pajeets at M$ finally got the memo about how software is supposed to serve the user, not the other way around
What happened?

They lost money.
Once they're good again they'll switch the mentality again.

Steam obviously has some sort of an agreement about the better split ratios with MS.

>microsoft buys steam

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>Once they're good again they'll switch the mentality again.
Fuck, you're right.

I think they're planning to drop consoles and just focus on cloud. And their next operative system is designed with the cloud in mind.
blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/05/28/enabling-innovation-and-opportunity-on-the-intelligent-edge/

>Two of most AMERICAN companies goes against CHINKSHITTER
USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA USA

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Gabe Newell despises microsoft with a passion, he'd rather take the company down with him than sell.

Will we finally get Fable 2 on Steam?

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>using facebook
>not removing those useless fucking smm tags therefore increasing statistics and literally giving money to marketers

fucking disgusting, new low of this shit board for sure

>getting ass fucked by micro-sanjay instead of epicommie games

Rare Replay?

I wouldn't expect anything that wasn't going to come to the Windows Store anyway
Again, depends entirely on whether or not they had planned a PC port at all.

the choice being xbox live or windows 10

what a cute doggy :^)

>Windows 10
You mean Windows 7

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Only for specific games like WOW. Not to mention Windows 7 is getting deprecated in less than a year so enjoy your botnet

nagatoro poster speaks truth

Microsoft doesn't care about the consoles since their Xbox brand became a platform. Xbox consoles at this point are just Windows machines with the Xbox platform made to have more places to sell their software. They are little more than successful Steam machines .

>Games coming to Steam and Windows Store, but not Epic
>"We believe you should have choice in where you buy your PC games"
This is a direct Fuck You to Sweeny. There's no way this isn't payback for all that shitflinging he did a couple years back.

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You will have to use Xbox Live anyways.

>we believe you should have choice in where you buy pc games
>switch all games to the Monopoly known as steam
>not epic store
>not gog
>not humble store
>steam
>just steam
great job retards

Sweeny has always been a slimy cunt. Microsoft has enough reach on the industry to know this, just like game publishers that took the bribe have been discovering lately.

>not humble store
Don't worry, they will make it there, but just as Steam keys. Which for me, it's pretty much the same thing.

Xbox Live is free on PC so who cares

Steam is an objectively better choice than EGS anyway. Why the hate?

And the Windows store too. Keep seething Tim Chong

Not him, but it's hypocritical given their "muh choice" approach.

Nice hard identities man, it's clear that we don't take any part on your console war because there's no actual arguement pc is always going to win, no matter what.

Difference being that you can buy Steam keys for cheaper from other places

Well at least the statement should be amended to "choice to buy on a platform that isn't half-baked trash riddled with spyware"

So, why isn't on GOG.com, Amazon.com, Humble Store and GamersGate? None of them are spyware and they can offer DRM-free builds.

Does that mean they’re going to make Windows 10 better?

Microsoft will say anything right now, they were the ones against cross play last gen too, they were the ones with the always online shit, they were the ones that opened the floodgates to shitty doc practices

How long do I have to wait for Viva Pinata 2 on PC

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>Can buy on steam
>And the windows store
That's already more options than the epic store does with their literally monopoly on exclusives

One of the selling points of Games for Windows LIVE was cross-play. One time it was used in a fucking strategy game.

Wrong.

Fucked up that MS fixed their ways and Snoy put them into overdrive

>microsoft learns
>tim promptly forgets

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If you want to worry about secondary outlets, that's your issue. My only concern is games getting out of the EGS shitbox. As long as that happens, I'll be happy

He's done quite a bit to earn that 'fuck you'. Something tells me he's not even done yet.

Gabe worked there for over a decade so that would be an ironic circle. MS doing their usual investment fuckup, discontinue product and migrating everyone to the Windows Store.

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>freedom of choice = Steam and Steam keys
Got it.

>Competent players NO our team
>take part ON your wars

Sweeney didnt pay Microsoft enough :)

Sweeney hates Linux. Instead, Valve made Microsoft work with them, in exchange of Valve dropping their investments on Linux, probably.

how much did valve pay m$?

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True for most games, but having played MHW on both ps4 and PC, PC players are way worse on average.

Letting Xbox Live in their store. Dropping Linux development is also a possibility.

>what the fuck happened?
probably the fact that 99% of PC gamers responded to Window store exclusivity with "fine, then I won't buy it"
Take note Epic

Microsoft is investigating a fucktone on Linux/OpenSource now days though.

>Not including valve's work on VR being another possibility

Lmao

That's a nice way of saying "we have failed to sell games on Microsoft store".

m8 Gaben is ex Microsoft he just need to whip his fat for the poo in loos to bow before him

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Reminder the only reason anybody cares about the epic store is because they keep hoarding exclusives with all their fortnite money as it lacks a number of features that steam does have like a shopping cart
Unless they really step up their game their better much going to be screwed if/when fortnite starts to slow down or decline

True.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mixed_Reality

Give me Rare Replay and I'll suck your dick.
Otherwise fuck off.

>that even the most basic Internet store does have like a shopping cart
FTFY.

Translation: "Okay, we give up, The Xbox is dead"

Is there a single point in having an xbox in 2019?

>then what the fuck is the point of buying an xbox?

A question you should have asked yourself 2-3 generations ago.

Yeah, if you're a brainlet.

Gaben probably agreed to sell Steam to Microsoft once he's ready to retire

It's a meme you moron

MS realised that exclusivity deals exist to push hardware on console babbys. It's pointless signing exclusivity deals when every jackass already has a PC and you're not the one selling the hardware, there's no hardware to push, you're just slicing your market up for no reason.

I would love to see that happen. Mostly because Steam has a lot of policies that most companies don't have (most precisely, they take AO-rated games in a per-game basis).

What happend, how did epic piss microsoft off?

how did microsoft do something that makes me hate them less

>as it lacks a number of features that steam does have like a shopping cart
This is seriously ghetto. Even the most boot-fucked programmer knows how to include shit like that.

Steam is their third-party store since the last days of Games for Windows LIVE. Nothing really changed but their level of support.

women inherit the earth

A shopping cart is a textbook programming student exercise. I don't know how Epic needs 8 months for that shit

>we tried exactly what epic is doing right now a decade ago, but we obviously failed so now we are going to try to make everyone else trying it look as bad as possible so that we do not look even worse if someone else succeeds where we failed
I mean, I naturally loathe epic, but I am disgusted by microsoft for the exact same reason.
pots and kettles and all that.

but yeah, hurray for epic now drawing the ire of the industry giants, not that M$ games are all that good.

It's worse than that, you can buy that shit as a pre-built package complete with an idiots guide to installation.

you lost perspective and your hatred was never that pure.
poser.

Yeah, after all the Xbox One is a fantastic console with lots of high quality exclusives and not by far the worst gaming home console on the market. The Windows 10 Store is great as well and not the shittiest digital distribution service. Not to even mention he campaigns for diversity, inclusivity and representation to be the defining ideologies in video games. That's his career in a nutshell. Truly, if there's one person to put your faith in, it's Phil. Great ideas and great decision-making that we can all appreciate.

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Honestly, it's probably just a normal industry deal between Valve and MS and not some vendetta against Epic. It's just memeing because Tim Sweeney used to shittalk Microsoft about stuff that he's now pulling off with the Epic store.

Halo 5 and gamepass

CEO of Epic Games

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>Not to even mention he campaigns for diversity, inclusivity and representation to be the defining ideologies in video games.
There's a reason every Silicon Valley and commerce company are doing it.

>Not to even mention he campaigns for diversity, inclusivity and representation to be the defining ideologies in video games
lol have sex

No, but there will be in 2020.

>Yeah, after all the Xbox One is a fantastic console with lots of high quality exclusives and not by far the worst gaming home console on the market.
yes that is true. The sony exclusive walking simulators aren't games.

this is also why I don't use the EGS
not because it's allegedly spyware, because honestly what program isn't in these days
the service is honestly just an awful service.

>not spending all day on usenet writing multiple essays against M$hit

>with him than sell
Years ago maybe but now Gaben just wants to chill on his mountain of money. A little more wouldnt hurt.

There's also the nice detail that they had to take down select games when they realized weren't supposed to be in the sale.

wow you sure showed him smelly pc gamer hashtag pc master race check out my battlestation

I'm just glad I might actually be able to buy Forza Horizon 3 off Steam.

DO IT TO SLOW ASSHOLES.

Gabe newell used to work at microsoft, where he made the millions that became valve and then steam. They parted amicably, even though microsoft did not have faith in the suggested partnership to distribute HL2 and manage the digital platform for sale and automatic patching, so valve had to make steam themselves.
Since then they have always been begrudging rival/friends.
Its not like they hate epic, but they have nothing to gain from what epic does, providing a tiny customer base and offering peanuts compared to what they are expected to get from a release on all platforms without limitations.

Shut the fuck up Dr Sattler

i was indifferent to tim's gay store until he started moneyhatting like any game that cost more than
$40 to make. it was obviously unfinished garbage, but i figured they could make it less bad over time--even though they should have made it at least as functional as a yahoo store before launching. but these days my tolerance for them is nonexistent

Today I bought a game on gamesplanet that is also available for purchase on steam. I really hate those monopolies!

What ever happened to this guy?
youtube.com/watch?v=8tsHkpesBdY

Microsoft has been doing very well lately. Their recent purchase of GitHub proved to be a right decision. They have been digging into the Open Source community for a while and I wouldn’t doubt they could put Valve back on track if they owned them.

>deal with nintendo
>deal with sony
>we love steam now

wtf is happening?

They got completely fucked this gen for console sales, so theyre looking at selling their games through other ways

why even bother with console hardware? they should just go full sega next gen.

no

at this point the hardware is just a successful version of what valve tried with the steam box: a shitty pc.

Believe it or not, 70% of 700k sales is vastly preferable to 100% of 200k sales.

Amazon and Humble sell steam keys you fucking moron.

They realized competition is retarded, apparently, Nintendo did as well and Sony knows they're fucked in an online fight so they made a deal with Microsoft.

Because that's retarded, they know console gamers will never go PC, Nintendo and Sony also know they can never compete with their online systems and caved into to Microsoft. For PC stores Microsoft finally realized their store on PC is shit.

hopefully they'll stop trying to monopolize their platform and realize the more stakeholders they have the harder it will be to replace with a phone running android

Why is anyone surprised?

PC = windows = Microsoft

Tim led a fierce "war" against Microsoft for trying to monopolize PC gaming that lasted a couple years. Not even joking.

So now, 2 years later, Tim is trying to monopolize PC gaming so he's dealing with the smirk and reprisal from Microsoft.

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Microsoft finally accepts consolebros hate their guts and won't buy their shitty console and now want back into PC gaming. These niggers should've watched their mouths back when they gave pcbros the finger and tried to fuck over pc gaming with GFWL.

NOBODY LOVES YOU MICROSOFT ROLL OVER AND DIE ALREADY

I for one welcome our PC overlords.

>Muh inclusivity
1. It's microsoft not playstation
2. Just accept that you'll never have sex, t has nothing to do with women, or even your looks, it's your narcissistic personality, coupled with your autism

Is Microsoft giving up on the xbox then? Is it really just going to be Snoybois and nintendies till based Atari saves gaming?

>Sony's shitting the bed
>Microsoft is actually becoming decent

What the FUCK happened?

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>Gaymepass is going to pc this year

Microsoft took this gen on the chin and didn't get political.

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I mean, almost all xbox games are already on PC. It is only really the Gears of War and Halo that is left on the console.

no

No

The right timeline happened.

Sony got too big and they started to smug.

steam + linux + microsoft
vs
epic fail store + playstation

hmmm

It was looking up for xbox until they decided to put literally all their exclusives except H5 on pc and gamepass later this year

What I'm thinking too. They've been on top for too long and they think they can do whatever the fuck they want. I hope PS5 fails.

Hey man, fuck you.
>Sony's shitting the bed
How so? Aren't most of their shitty movie games selling well?

Fuck you, this could give a resurgence to fighting games. Full fucking crossplay should be an industry standard at this point.

They got rightfully bullied for all their shitty decisions and are now trying to improve themselves.

>Putting 15 year old games on the PC
>bad

I would buy an xbox for the sole purpose of home theater / multimedia use.

>How so? Aren't most of their shitty movie games selling well?

All of the censorship shit going on, stupid policy changes, the movie games are becoming even less about gameplay, etc.

But what's the point of getting a xbox when you can get most of their shit on a PC?

They can offer DRM-free downloads too. What's your point?

Based, I don't want console poorfags shitting up much vidyer

So why haven't you? Is it because your TV already does all those things better?

>microsoft is becoming decent

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This kills the Epic

This, consoles should die, but microshit played their cards right at then end of this gen. Next gen is looking up for them.

If you're a console gamer, you're not going to buy a PC.

EPICN*GGERS BTFO

Only reason epic "succeeded" is because of shitnite not because they did anything right

Didn't days gone have plenty of gameplay? Granted it wasnt great but it seemed less movie game then shit like God of War. plus regardless of that the games are still selling well and I doubt normalfags care much about anime tiddies being censored.

Are you really denying that they are?

They fucked up for so long and now they're finally learning.

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Epic made Fortnite.

Would be kind of a nice kick in the teeth to Epic if they put Gears 1-3 on Steam.

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No, it isn't even close actually. Most televisions have terrible native codec support which limits your options in terms of DLNA/network streamed media. Plex for example can direct play to compatible devices for a variety of codecs. xbonks supports basically all of them which means I don't have to transcode media, which is a huge benefit alongside HDMI passthrough and options in terms of sourcing receivers

True, only a poorfag would have to resort to buying a console.

No one likes Windows Store.

If this means I could get the only good gears, gears 2, on pc I'm satisfied.

I'm not smelly

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Will there be an Xbox 4?

I would buy from them but I don't like the fact that is included in the OS.

Yeah by giving up.

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

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And despite having all this copy pasta. You still don't have one.

>consolekiddie talking shit to anyone
>A fucking Xcuck of all things trying to bad mouth others

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EXTEND

EMBRACE

EXTINGUISH

Microsoft will forever be cancer

>Xbone will really have no games

That only works in the Cuphead to NS case. Steam is full of third party DRM. And they don't offer a SDK for Xlive yet.

this faggot has the quintessential pedo face. 1000% a kiddy diddler

This. You need to kill yourself, Tim.

nice job finding that out retard

here's your friendly reminder to not open links with utm parameters which are used to track you, the links work just fine up to the question mark so the sanitised link is: pcgamer.com/microsoft-games-on-steam-announced/

The Microsoft Store is the most cancerous store of them all. Not even EGS is as cancerous as the MS. Have you faggot forgot what Microsoft tried to do to pc gaming with GfWL????

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brainlet here
why is shopping cart so important?
i buy one or maybe two things in a month in digital

Dude, same. I bought a bundle off of humble bundle today and had the choice of downloading the games from humble bundle and also got keys for steam. Like, what the fuck. Why hasn't the US government stepped in to destroy this monopoly?

Just use archive.is/X3eu9

thanks bro

Microsoft realized that trying to keep their games exclusive to one store just means they make less money on PC.

How is more cancerous that the rest of DRM that is already on Steam?
>Have you faggot forgot what Microsoft tried to do to pc gaming with GfWL?
Unlike Epic, they didn't cockblocked and they allowed local profiles.

In your case, you wouldn't need it but most people like to buy multiple games in just one operation.

There's a Firefox addon for that

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I thought they just tracked where the link was clicked from. So that OP can get paid for how many clicks he sends their way.

>I bought a bundle off of humble bundle today and had the choice of downloading the games from humble bundle and also got keys for steam.
Which ones? :^)

The Windows 10 botnet has logged enough people bitching about the Epic store that Microsoft decided that if they went down that path then they would lose enough sales to be bothersome.

>gay animeposter

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This was the last good game ever developed by an M$-owned dev and it will never be ported to anything other than the Xbone

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Shouldn't epic store be hit by the 25% US-China tariffs?

It's just 4D chess. Tim went in with good intentions, then the Valve and Microsoft jew sidestepped and reversed it on him.

Ultimately, it doesn't really matter because you shouldn't trust any of these companies, they'd all charge you for air if they could. Do not be deceived by their tricks.

Based /leftypol/ poster, for once.

Everyone has been trying to buy Steam for over a decade now. If Gabe hasn't sold by now, he never will.

this is just the minimum (it was previously six months) due to the fact they have to install game manually on the store which pushes back those key goals they talk about, imagine having such a shit store adding the the thing it needs to be a store pushes back other important shit

>what the fuck happened?
consoles going full online next gen, aka gaming as a service, as PC has been. vidya is dead.

Knowing Gabe, if there's ANY company he'd never sell Valve to, it's Microsoft. Even Tencent is a more likely buyer.

Why do you need a shopping cart for a store that only carries 8 games?

>No musky smell

Pass.

If you try to buy 2 of them it locks down due to fraud.

Thanks alot user

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>steam shills linux
>microsoft cozies up to steam
Could these two facts be related, or is it irrelevant?

I think it was 5.

>Becoming more like PC
>Vidya is dead

Yeah having built-in modding support, controller support and customer reviews sure is shitty

Homos please leave

Most likely saw just how much track MCC got on Steam and realized it's a better choice just to put your fucking games in there than trying to force a godawful console.
I still can't get over the fact that Steam is now going to have more Epic-developed games than Epic does in their own store.

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Their next OS will be cloud-based.
blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2019/05/28/enabling-innovation-and-opportunity-on-the-intelligent-edge/

Makes it easier to spy on people if the data is all in their own place to begin with i suppose.

They already have. Epic even sells most of their games in GamersGate just as Steam keys. GOG.com has even more Epic titles than Steam.

everyone knows microsoft is a major contributor to the linux project.

nigga consoles aren't going to have built-in modding support or reviews, wtf you talking about. it's becoming "more like PC" by killing physical copies. PC hasn't had physical copies of games in a long ass time and in the rare cases they do it's a single dvd and you download the rest or it's simply just a steam code.

There will be no resurgence because they suck dick. Only the gayest furries want to autistically learn millisecond inputs and spend hours training for what should be a leisure activity.

Maybe because it has been proved that PC gamers don't want them?

I just want Forza, fuck buying that on the Microsoft Store.

This is all getting a bit too much like pottery for my tastes

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Who wants this, who thinks this is a good idea

Why does EVERYTHING have to now be reliant on an internet connection

>supports

No nigger. They just ALLOW anyone to do what they want. Stupid niggers like you support Denuvo buy buying shit that has it.

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Remember when games released on pc were just released on PC? Pepperidge farm remembers.

Imagine living in India with designated shitting streets and taking out an international loan to beg your populace to use toilets.

I hate to sound like Stallman, but it's because they want to take your freedom away.

Yeah.

>no argument
Trips are on my side fuckboi, you lose.

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They realize epic is/has the potential to be a major competitor, so they're making moves to gain customer loyalty.

Cool. Let me know when their controllers start lasting more than a year.

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It's not competition when you pay to not compete with anyone.

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

IS THIS NOT WHY YOU ARE HERE

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No, it's not. They just bought like six AA games and some random indies for one year and an AAA for six months. Their infrastrucure is shit.

You should be learning from books, not internet pedos young man.

I've had the same 360 controller for 13 years and it still works like a charm

That's neither infrastructure nor proof that they aren't gaining traction.

i'm conflicted, because i've had by xbone controller for over a year and it's not dead yet, but the build quality of all gamepads is extremely poorer than it should be
shitty rubber membranes and jank shoulder button design should be eliminated from controllers

have you tried playing video games

Same. But I'm on my 4th xbox one controller. All cheap chink-made component failures.

>wins once again by doing absolutely nothing
Is Gabe the highest IQ CEO of any game company?

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>I want to download over 90GB from a CD
>I can always play next week

Same. Got no idea what's good or not this gen because this thing just keeps on going.

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Microsoft makes billions from their software. They're going to make gaming PCs and call them consoles and buy up studios so every game sold on any platform will make them money.

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yes

He's mostly just lucky he beat everyone to the digital storefront revolution. Not that he's not a bright guy.

I’ve only had one controller break and it was because my little brother stepped on the joystick. I even play with my friends and have been for years on call of duty and shit.

I genuinely don’t understand how you could break 3 controllers unless you’re just severely retarded

>15 year old
They're putting everything on pc, there's literally no reason to buy the next xbox unless they stop and start having exclusives with all the new ips they bought

>These experiences are powered by AI, so a modern OS is aware of what a user is doing tomorrow and helps them get it done, and it enhances applications making them more intelligent.
Not creepy at all, Microsoft.

The last time I broke a controller was 17 years ago. So, to solve the puzzle for you, cheap Chinese components.

You're retarded. This is just Microsoft admitting they can't make money off Xbox (i.e. Xbox One is dead).

>Microsoft realizes the console game is shit and proceeds to team up with steam too shit on epic
Welcome to being a PC Chad Xbros.

Microsoft is moving to the cloud and services.

get nae nae'd tim

Not him but I'm on my 3rd xbone controller
The analogs don't last

>cheap Chinese crap!
>he screams, after he realized he smashed his controller into the ground too hard and broke it whilst playing fortnite

They tested cross play for Lost Planet and PC players mopped the floor with the competition

They're phasing out their Play Anywhere/MS store because it's losing them too much money on console sales. They're transitioning into exclusively using 3rd party distributors on PC.

Source: My name is Igor Bogdanoff. Do not reply to this post.

Which was their original gameplan with Xbox One to begin with (kill physical). How long before you are paying for gametime in quarters?

shadowrun was cross-play

which part of microsoft qa do you work in
because you could probably be better at your job

They arn't able too kill physical though because Nintendo is basically the solid rock of gaming. It outlasts literally fucking everything.

Damn right he is.

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Of course. But that is why you force exclusivity, it is the only way to get 100% of those 700k sales. Otherwise, yeah you end up selling way more on steam.
Could be. Maybe it is a silent way to counter EGS. They are just M$ use the store at an insanley favourable rate. Given M$ uses all their own services, they really just need a store ad, and the game files on a steam server.
Xbox, over the last 3 years, has made more money than it ever has.Turns out console war threads on Yea Forums don't really have much impact on bottomline.

I still can't believe that they didn't used it in Street Fighter nor Mortal Kombat.

PC luckily at least has DRM-free options.

I want to play call of duty mobile using my M&K just to ruin it for everybody.

Which part of me calling you a retarded ape did you not understand?

Do I need to call you a nigger to prove I’m just a random user? I haven’t broken a single xbone controller and I’ve had it since it came out

>former antagonist joins your party

MINECRAFT STEAM EDITION FUCKING WHEN???????????????????????????????????????????

just a regular user from microsoft's qa department that thinks his low quality hardware is someone else's fault

I don't think they will, but man, can you imagine?
Fortnite would just die overnight.

so long as they find a way to get the mojang accounts to work with steam, that would be a pretty great thing to happen

Quick rundown?

>Minecraft Bedrock with mods
I would literally cum

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>what the fuck happened
MS is behind now because they've been fucking up for the last few years, so they need to pretend like they care about the consumer beyond how to most efficiently get them to spend money on shit.
Sony did the same shit back when MS was winning but now that they're ahead they're the ones blocking crossplay and stuff like that, and if MS ever gets back on top they'll happily shift back to full fuck-you-pay-us mode.

I want it!!!!
Minecraft Bedrock Edition + Workshop support.
I even can imaginate a exclusive Mash-Up for the Steam Edition featuring Valve stuff.

So will I get a choice to play DRM free version of gears or halo?

DISAVOW AAA TITLES
DISAVOW ALL DRM
NEW BAD
OLD GOOD
THAT IS THE WAY OF THE WAY
FOLLOW THE PATH OF BOOMERISM

>blocking crossplay and stuff like that
thankfully they finally stopped, Dauntless already released with crossplay built in and the new Dudebro of Duty also has it, hopefully that also means console games will start shipping with keyboard support.

This. It's all PR what there doing trying to win over the PC community. Steam tags are falling for it hard.

cool juicero, rami, but why do you post here without a tripcode

Valve exclusive mash-up same as this.
WHY THE FUCK MINECRAFT STEAM EDITION ISN'T A REAL THING YET?

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No. The only reason they're on PC to begin with is to push Xbox Live.

>>Tim Sweeny wants to lock you into his walled garden
Every distribution platform on PC wants to do this. Suck it up and stop bitching or just pirate them all and stop bitching. This is getting annoying.

no

Not a tripfag, just a rogue boomer. You dumb nigger faggot zoomer cattle.

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because nobody plays bedrock anyways

>Microsoft now believes
Imagine thinking this is anything but PR bullshit
They have had their shit locked behind the Microsoft Store and Windows 10 for fucking years, but are only now coming out and saying this shit due to the fiasco with Epic's store. Saying this now they can get brownie points and gain a bit more relevancy after fucking up so much in recent years

Blizzard gave a couple of exclusivities to GOG. Ubisoft released Rayman Origins without any DRM on retail, GOG and Humble Store. CDPR sells their games in lots of stores.

I play BE over the JE because performance reasons, also the render distance for the BE is glorious.

>Microsoft and Steam join forced to end the chink menace
I like it

the world does not revolve around epic games

And despite these fringe cases most of them lock their own exclusives to their own distribution platform. Bethesda and EA don't need an introduction. Neither does the Epic store. Steam has a bunch of games locked to nothing but steam for a variety of reasons. Listing a handful of scenarios of games being shared between platforms doesn't negate the fact that most distribution services want you to use their service over another one and will force you to use it to play the game in one manner or another. basically every single one does this.

when has ms ever not changed their message to pander to whoever they think is going to buy their garbage?

I don't think that's what he what trying to get at.

>he doesn't play the Bedrock Edition with Skyrim mash-up for maximum comfynes
I found the contrarian brainlet.
>muh mods
Not an argument.

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I didn't say that though

Absolutely based

GUNT

Valve doesn't needs anything but the laziness and greed of the publishers, developers and bundle sites that only sell Steam keys.

Wishlist:
>Fable 2 on Steam
>Fable 3 Re-Release (it was removed from Steam long ago)
>Gears of War UE/4 on Steam
>Halo Wars 2 on Steam
>Minecraft Steam Edition with Workshop support, this version can be the space in between the original Bedrock and the classic Java
>Bedrock performance stability and graphics but with native mod support same as Java at least game packages (mods with scripts are really not necesary)

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Get out of my head.

does that mean i can play forza horizon on windows 7 because i dont want windows 10 just for that shit

And Forza????

Exactly right. Microsoft's new goal is to get everyone on the PC paying their monthly fee for access to multi-player.
They still want total control, but they're willing to put that off as far as 2025 if necessary to ensure their victory is complete.

I don't really care about racing games but yeah it can be a nice addition to my wishlist.
I basically want all Microsoft gsmes on Steam, I hope TMCC is the beginning of something better.

Everyone? Impossible, but they would have a nice reach with these Trojan horses.

How will they win next gen? This phase of xbox is worst one ever. Consoles are what drive the industry, look at sega now.

>Consoles are what drive the industry
>this is actually what brainlets believe

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>moviles are what drive the industry
Fixed.

>Phil is actually the good guy while Sweeney is the bad guy

What the fuck happened?

I still wish Humble Bundle kept doing Mobile and PC and Android bundles.

>Microsoft never understood that
>which is why every business and government on the planet uses Microsoft office and windows to power their shit
Microsoft always understood software is where the money is, it's not even a question.

I wish they didn't go to shit after being bought by IGN

At this point console are dead compared with smartphones.
Consoles are not an easy and worthy market today Microsoft know it and probably next XBOX will be their last real console their near future is stream-ready machines with xCloud Support and publish a game in whatever platform with internet conection due streaming.

>takes obvious and rather standard bait
>thinks he's spoonfeeding

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>everything is moving to cloud
>google getting in
>amazon getting in
>consoles drive the market!
You living under a rock?

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The majority of fighting games will NEVER have crossplay because the majority of FG devs will NEVER have the funds needed to implement it unless someone bigger helps them out, which almost NEVER happens because the only games big enough to warrant that kind of attention are the mainstream titles like Street Fighter.

>PS4 and Switch sell like hotcakes
>Xbone fails because MS is incompetent
>DURRR CONSOLES ARE DEAD BECAUSE THE INDUSTRY REVOLVES AROUND BASED MS BASED PHIL SPENCER BTW TOTALLY NOT A CULTIST

>Microsoft could had two chances to implement cross-play in a Street Fighter title
>they didn't
Microsoft was quite retard back then.

What if they brought them to both thus reinforcing their belief in choice?

>being this brainlet
Selling consoles (hardware) do not make a really big profit BUT selling games (software) is how the companies make money today.

XBOX as a console is dead but Microsoft still wining money because they sell games.

Are you living under a rock?

>Gabe Newell despises microsoft with a passion
Nigga, he worked there. He was a Microsoft millionaire before he funded Valve.

Humble store will still get to sell steam key you stupid moron.

>what the fuck happened?
Gears 4, Forza Horizon, Age of Empires Definitive Edition and Sea of Thieves were massive flops on PC.

Nintendo main profit is because games not consoles so....

He's sort of not wrong though. Consoles are setting back the industry and make the minimum spec standard for games. If consoles didn't exist games would be more advanced now

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>Gaben just wants to chill on his mountain of money
Gaben just wants to do what anyone with money would do - invest into his hobbies. He just comes to work, works on VR and spearheads technology development, and goes home. That's what he's excited about.

>he worked there
I fucking hate most of the places I used to work

>cannon labeled “force if necessary”
Political cartoons are the most retarded medium of discourse.

>PS4 and Switch sell like hotcakes
Do you really believe that consoles sales mean something????? KEK
It was never something to care about.
ign.com/articles/2014/01/29/these-are-nintendos-lifetime-hardware-and-software-numbers
fin24.com/Companies/ICT/nintendos-software-sales-help-bolster-profits-as-hardware-slips-20180731

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This. \v\irgins don't know about Microsoft strategy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

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US GUYS
THOSE FUCKERS
OUR SHIT

EMBRACE EXTEND EXTINGUISH

windows 7 is going to get depreciated soon
>epic doesnt support loonix

How is this going to destroy Steam?

is it finally coming to Steam bros?

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isn't humble just a key reseller with the gimmick that it gives to charity?

>HEY GUYS YOU REALIZE M$ IS JUST DOING THIS FOR PR RIGHT
>THEY DON’T BELIEVE IN PRO-CONSUMER SHIT, THEY JUST WANT YOUR MONEY
>REMEMBER YEARS AGO WHEN THEY DID SHITTY THING?

Yeah, no fucking kidding. So what? Is this supposed to be some big revelation? “A business just wants your money”?

This is how it works. When a company does shit you disagree with, you shit on them and withhold your business. When they recant that position and start doing shit you agree with, you applaud them and give them your business. If they flip direction again, so do you.

If all you ever do is instantly swear off any company that ever does something disagreeable, permanently and forever, nobody learns anything. Your business becomes unwinnable and therefore irrelevant. If, instead, you are willing to forgive when a company reverses a bad decision, you create a bidirectional financial pressure to do what you want; take money away for bad choices, with the knowledge that reversing those choices brings it back.

This isn’t a judgment of character, companies have none. This is about applauding a pro-consumer move, nothing more. What M$ did in the past doesn’t matter. And if tomorrow, they reverse this decision and decide to go back on all of it, then the applause they got today won’t matter either. Actions matter. Results matter. Either the company is doing good things or it isn’t. Stop trying to make everything anyone does about the stupidest decision they ever made, that’s Tumblr-tier witchhunt bullshit.

No, they have a decent amount of DRM-free, several of them not being available on GOG.com.

I used to slap PC players all the time in Paragon

>Paragon
>a 3rd person moba game designed for controllers
wow user, congrats, but that guy was talking about fps and rts games