Microsoft promises stronger focus on PC gaming
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JulesCools
thanks Obama.
Robbo9999
Mineria
Aura89
"Last August, Microsoft snagged away Jason Holtman, the former head of Steam business development at Valve, to make Windows "a great platform for gaming"."
Poor Jason Holtman
KissSh0t
I see... so does this mean I will be able to install my Resident Evil 5 on my PC again and actually be able to use it...
I'm guessing no I will not. Why? Games For Windows Live... that's why.. and the fact that when I played some of it the first time it was "Activated" on a Windows Vista machine... now that I have upgraded to Windows 8... Even if Games for Windows Live returned I would not be able to install my game because it will no longer activate due to reaching it's "activation limit" which is a Microsoft Marketing Term for you activated it on another OS and if you want to play it on a new OS you will have to buy the game again or not play it.
The same goes for Halo 2 Vista... which I did play, and I do like.. I spent about 4 months the first time they cut me out from being able to play it when I was stupid enough to think that upgrading to Windows 7 and then Installing Halo 2 Vista on Windows 7 was actually a good idea.. NO IT WAS NOT.. So.. 4 months later, lots of phone calls, me sending photographs of my game case, product key, game CD and all my Halo Figurines lined up next to it all to show I AM A FIKJHSDRGKKING HUGE HALO FAN and they finally send me a new product key...
Only to announce they are shutting down Halo 2 Vista servers a few months later.
Thanks Microsoft... You are so awesome... and stuff..
I'm just going to stop writing because I could honestly write a book on how sh1t Microsoft is in regards to PC gaming.
Pill Monster
Does anybody really care what MS think? They aren't even relevant when it comes to the gaming industry except for providing a platform.
umeng2002
For a company that pushes gaming technology forward with DirectX, they really have a bad history about actually supporting games. In their "infinite" wisdom, they might even bring back a GFWL thing.
Frankly, the way they've handled the PC market tells me nothing other than they bank on their Xbox platform and really only care about that... and making sure most games are DirectX to support Windows sales/ piracy/ usage/ market share/ etc.
(.)(.)
F1refly
lol, really? They'll just say anything won't they. The whole GFWL thing was being marketed like crazy initially then fell flat like they never cared to begin with and didn't take it anywhere other than offer us 360 gamepads to use and some DRM.
Theres likely just one thing behind all this....SteamOS
kill007
Pill Monster
VENGEANCE
Nicely said
Very nicely said there Dictator93
with some real atitude +10:banana:
southamptonfc
Windows 8.1 updated locked USB (Mouse) polling rate to 125hz. You can install a fix and make a registry mod to get back 1000hz for your gaming mouse but this lack of thought just shows how little MS care about PC gaming at the moment.
Given their low standards, it shouldn't be hard to improve on things but we all know what a load of BS munchers they are.
I give MS 50% chance of arresting the advance of Linux and new APIs such as Mantle. I think they might just be too slow and bloated to come back from here.
SLI-756
southamptonfc
http://www.blurbusters.com/systemwide-fix-win81-mouse-fludiity/
afaik, your mouse wont work properly unless you do the regedit. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yes, unless something has been fixed VERY recently then you need to follow the instructions here:
SLI-756
i'll check it out for sure, when I tried the Microsoft game lag fix (the application) first I was on preview, now i'm on pro and boith instances they've not worked. so if it's gonna work then I guess reg-edit is the way to go.
Mr.Bigtime
what is this suppose to mean. i mean a 4770K cpu and a 780 GPu with 16Gbs of ram..need a focus on Windows platform? or i see this topic from wrong angle?
scatman839
post two for example.
It's just nonsense marketing crap, see Ghosty
yelsewshane
I think microsoft has done a great job with gaming on the pc. The only reason I even use MS OS's is because of games. For every other computer related task I use Linux.