Lose UWP, fix stability, make good offers, broad your library, make a functional ui, disconnect it from OS, stop building a walled garden and we 're game.
Okay Spencer, go ahead. Show us that you actually care about PC gaming and take a good look at Steam and other popular game stores on PC.
Your to-do list:
- no more encrypted games, we need full file access
- mod support without monetization
- a decent in-game overlay for online interactions
- full compatibility with tools that PC gamers want to use (RTSS, Reshade etc)
- worldwide game prices that are on par with other PC stores instead of console
- decent discounts that aren't behind the Xbox Live Gold paywall
- support for DRM free games
- allow devs to generate free game keys, so that Windows Store games can be bought in competing 3rd party keystores
- universal controller support (including Steam controller)
Good luck Phil! :)
Yeah, i´m with those two.
As long as all those issues exist, i don´t really care about their games being on PC. They literally have no value to me. Forza Horizon 4 existing as this weird app uwp abomination, where i can´t access the files, can´t use software to interact with it, mod, or even just count on it being able to download has no value to me. It might as well not have come to PC.
For close to 2 decades now, Microsoft has either been negligent or straight up a threat to pc gaming (gfwl and their uwp/w10 walled garden approach).
So i don´t care that Phil is paying lipservice to me, he´s been doing it for a few years now. I don´t care that he´s actually in charge now to improve things. At least allegedly, since that would mean he´s been lying the last few years (which honestly, pc gamers knew anyway).
And whatever he´s done with xbox, i don´t care. They made a mid gen upgrade - so? Nintendo been doing them since forever for their handhelds, Sony made one too. I don´t see what´s special about it.
Game pass - a sub to rent games. cool i guess?
Expanded/bought studios. Just good business if you want to make more games. Don´t know how that makes him some kind of saviour. It´s what companies do. Ubisoft do it, EA do it (and shut them again to be fair lol), everyone does it.
And no, i´m not a Steam only or gtfo pc gamer. I have games on gog, steam, uplay etc. I just want something that works and is gives me pc games.
Nothing, to me as primarely a pc gamer, has impressed me or given me confidence in either MS or Phil so far.
So hey, go ahead and prove me wrong, i would love to see it.
