Releasing their games shows the bare minimum of commitment. It's not enough. They're forcing us to use a store that in many cases is literally broken and won't let us play those games. They're removing the control and freedom we have to do what we want with the games we download.
I am hoping that API is hinting that we will be getting both. I don't see why else Steam would build in native XBL crossplay
It is pretty false though because he plays lip service to it every year doesn't mean it is accurate. The store is still terrible and it's all talk until they fix it.
You are right on with that.
Obviously you have your own agenda and will be in every Windows topic every day pushing the same narrative. Time to put you on ignore.
I'm not holding my breath until they announce whatever they're working on at E3, they hopefully have a roadmap for once, they actually deliver on everything they bring up in their conference, and everything they do is a genuine leap forward in their effort on the platform that doesn't quickly lose it's momentum. Microsoft has squandered their benefit of the doubt enough times that they've racked up a debt.
A time table for what, nebulous effort? Yeah ok, definitely never heard that before.
How about a way to play those games without occasional OS reformat or not redownloading games/patches a dozen times? How many articles do we need to list to show that Windows Store is shit and that the fact that say Forza 4 is on Windows Store is irrelevant to a fair number of people because they simply can't get it to play without doing major troubleshooting of the goddamn OS.
Can you see how a PC only player would have a different opinion of MS? These discussions would be a lot better if people could. No one is denying that he has done some good stuff for Xbox. None of that has translated over to PC yet. He has been telling us his plans for a few years now. The same way everyone else from MS has done over the years.
Someone adviced you before the post that you can play sot,gears or Forza h 4 on PC ?
Nobody hates Phil Spencer. He has been pretty good at the Xbox side. What people dislike is continuous pointless lip effort on MS side about PC gaming when they can't get something as basic as a storefront to freaking work. There have been numerous threads, posts, discussions on that causing OS reinstalls, version rollbacks, incessant redownloads of patches and games, and so on. It's still broken and been broken for years.
I'm not sure why you think rebutting people decrying MS's efforts with the literal bare minimum of effort is necessary.
Have to do with your main post ..
This one....
Yeah. You got me there. If Play Anywhere was his idea then he deserves credit for that. Still, I would prefer it if they got everything else in line. I know you do, too.
He wasn't in charge of windows or PC though, blaming him for a division that he wasn't in apart of the last 2 decades is dumb
like i said above prior to last year he had zero control on anything windows, before the restructuring windows was actually above xbox in the organization. Xbox and windows have always been two totally separate competing teams. I think eventually ms will cave in and release uwp free games, that whole uwp intiative was a terry myerson led phase. I'm sure these things will change it'll obviously take time.
Pretty sweet deal for MS. We can't judge them on past behaviors. Thankfully, most PC players don't see it this way. Like I said, they are free to try and change my mind, though.
I agree, Nobody that i see dislikes Phil Spencer and he seems geniune but I take the wait and see approach on a bunch of the things microsoft is doing including how the first party will turn out and their constant promising and failing to do anything with pc gaming.
Yeah it can go either way, but being built into Steam at least shows something.
Dont worry, you won't be able to whine about this much longer.
