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Gears 5 confirmed for Steam release
- Thread starter Lukar
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Correct, but they are doing Steam (Win32) builds of previously released Windows Store/UWP titles. Age of Empires 1: DE is the only one announced so far, but others are coming.
Lol, this is telling me that you havent played Gears with a Keyboard versus a Console player, is not because of crappy Keyboard support.
The bigger the the userbase the bigger the revenue becomes the more they can reinvest into the platform as a whole.
This is a win win for everyone.
This is a win win for everyone.
It's incredibly difficult and counter-intuitive to do any of the advanced movement mechanics on a KB/M setup.
Power weapon contesting involves being proficient with the Gnasher though to start with
The 'unneeded background services' do not actually exist, that is just perception among certain semi-technical types. Microsoft offers stripped down SKUs of Windows for large enterprise, for POS devices and the like. They do not perform meaningfully different, they just take up less disk space.
A federated game launcher/installer/updater is a great idea, but not one I see Valve ever supporting. Epic would be on board, but who else?
Pretty cool, but I assume it won't have cross-buy/save on Steam? Because that's the big selling point for me as an owner of both platforms.
Yeah that's definite no. MS will want to keep Xbox gamers at their store.
Cross buy is complicated when you are giving a chunk of the sale away to a third party, but it could be done if Microsoft were willing to do license assignment to the first-used Xbox LIve account with that specific game. Without Valve adding new functionality to Steam, that is the best they can do. I doubt they will do so, they have not done so thus far.
True save sync is coming to the Win32 Xbox Live feature set, but it's not here today. It may arrive in time for it not to be missing from upcoming Steam MGS releases.
I would actually wager that it would have cross-save, since it connects to your live account.
Cross-buy, though, probably not.
Windows Store isn't the platform for them. Xbox/Xbox live is. With Xcloud coming out and their Game pass push the steam releases are almost irrelevant for them. Console owners are going to buy it from MS , PC gamers who wouldn't have touched the game because of MS store will get it on Steam or will sign up for Gamepass. So the games sell more overall which is great for MS.
The PC is a Microsoft platform, that was the platform I was referring to. I see the logic in this leading to increased sales, but I also am concerned about how it enables a consumer to end up with no Xbox license for a title just on account of buying said title from the wrong store. That messes with the console side of things in the event that the consumer buys an Xbox at some point.
wait what?
if death stranding also comes to pc i'm gonna scream
gears of war 5 coming to steam is a megaton news for me, love how valve and microsoft are officially bros now
Its not confirmed. That poster is speculating.
I still think this move from MS is not ideal and they should have worked on just improving their store but happy for steam owners.
Until someone actually gives them a reason, why should they?
People love to say "let the market decide", but it's a real problem when the market does just that.
Right, I don't blame anyone for staying inside Steam, I blame Microsoft for allowing that.
I don't say pro-capitalist stuff like 'let the market decide'.
Very happy about this
Its not that I'm against any other platform against, steam as I enjoy origin, epic, and I play even. Its just windows store literally doesn't work for me. The interface and download speed is horrendous
Its not that I'm against any other platform against, steam as I enjoy origin, epic, and I play even. Its just windows store literally doesn't work for me. The interface and download speed is horrendous
Third person shooters are very often better on pad, not exclusive to GoW.
That's completely new to me and I'm incredibly curious on what makes you of anyone else would say that.
It's really odd to me that Microsoft is becoming a platform-agnostic publisher, with very little worth publishing.
I suppose that changes in the future, with their recent purchases.
I suppose that changes in the future, with their recent purchases.
Me of anyone else? I'm a little unsure what you mean...
Third person shooters are known to control well with a gamepad, to the point many players on PC prefer to. Just like Gears.
Been a thing for as as long as I can remember, certainly not a new thing.
I don't really see how movement is more difficult on M/K than on controllers. The only real difference I see is that console players have had over a decade of experience while PC players needed to learn from scratch. We never saw how high the skill ceiling was on PC because Gears 4 MP was dead pretty fast.
For competitive play the PC will be the preferred platform anyway regardless of input method due to high refresh rates and the ability to customize everything.
They can definitely be more fun with a controller I agree but we were arguing about proficiency.
I'm guessing Microsoft is probably way more interested in that customer reach rather than a "bigger share of the pie." I don't see how there's any reason at all for them to put it on Epic, when they already have their own store.
I play Gears 4 on PC with an elite controller in my left hand and a mouse in my right hand.
Anything with free aiming is generally more accurate with mouse and keyboard. People just use gamepad for convenience.
They'll want the Fortnite crowd to play Halo.
(and some will, after Ninja religiously streams it)
Third person games using a gmepad has been a thing forever. They just feel better than M&KB a lot of the time, even if the latter would still be more precise. The weight of controlling a body instead of a camera feels really good on game pad. It just lends itself better to analog control.
ALL my PC friends have a gamepad too, TPS is one of the main reasons. Loads of peopel in our TD2 clan use a pad instead of KB&M, for example, but use the latter for FPS.
Not just about aiming with a TPS, it's about the camera angle. This is not a hidden thing, just ask in the PC thread if you want. Using a gamepad for TPS has been a thing on PC forever, and while that's obviously not going to be everyone it is a pretty common thing.
I guess they understand where Steam is coming from with the 20% if anything as they have to host a lot of stuff for them. Which Microsoft already does so I can see that them not caring about the cut is because they know why their doing it.
I don't think tho they are reinforcing that notion that Steam is the only place to play games, since it's coming on MS Store and their making changes that can already be seen to it.
I think their plan is to have everyone use an Xbox account so no matter where you are you're always gonna be connect to everyone on the Xbox network. So possibly Linking your Steam account to your Xbox Live account to let you buy gamepass or something along those lines can be entirely possible.
With Ninja being a former pro this is most definitely going to happen