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So, they fail in their respective strategies. Sony with live service games and Microslop with their Xbox game pass and now they start fucking up even more to recoup those losses. It’s like every executive is one big fuck-up away from destroying all the good-will that took them decades to build. To me, the destruction is almost worth it.
This is the natural cycle of capitalism. Company makes good products, customers are happy, company makes lots of money.
But now company isn’t growing fast enough. It must grow faster forever. Company must shake things up to grow faster.
Now company has a revolving door of idiot c suite with “vision” who all make things worse.
The Enshittification cycle. My favourite.
Monday: “We want one billion users.” Friday: “We would like to alienate a bunch of users."
Bold strategy, Cotton.
I don’t even feel comfortable logging into a Microsoft on an OS level on Windows. Which is a huge reason I never paid for Gamepass and never will. And only version of Microsoft I’d touch is ltsc which doesn’t have the Microsoft store installed.
So I’d pass on buying from the Microsoft Store or Xbox app if their games weren’t on Steam or GOG.
I’ve heard rumors that non-Xbox gamers will often refund games if they’re required to log into a Microsoft account.
This move seems careless as people can’t afford to buy a next-gen Xbox if it were to come out because Microsoft themselves are helping to drive up component costs due to AI.
There is no manufacturer in the world (that I’m currently aware of) that has been able to avoid increasing the costs of their electronic devices especially if it contains a hint of DRAM.
Closing off a market like Steam to themselves is so short-sighted in my opinion.
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Also saw this just a moment ago:Closing off a market like Steam to themselves is so short-sighted in my opinion.
Pretty much on brand for them, though
I’m hoping this isn’t a trend for the whole industry. That is Sony and Microsoft now. We had this fragmentation back in the mid 2010s where everyone thought they would better by being on their own platforms.
This is the biggest blow to Linux users since we can’t play games coming from the Xbox Store.
I wouldn’t touch them on Windows either. No way would I want to log into a Windows account on Windows when they collect stuff like activity history and upload everything you do on your OS and link it all to one account. And that was even before the GDID news.
This is the biggest blow to Linux users since we can’t play games coming from the Xbox Store.
Is this part of the "strategy though? “You have to be one Windows to play these games”. I don’t know that it will work though.
It might be enough of a barrier to prevent someone from swapping. It may also incentivize devs on Linux to get UWP working on Linux faster.
A console lives and dies by its exclusives. While it’s sensible for Microsoft to stop releasing on Steam, Windows gamers can still just buy MS exclusives on PC without having to buy an Xbox. If Xbox wants to succeed it has to stop releasing on PC at all. That’s not politically viable inside Microsoft, and so Xbox as a console business is not viable. Microsoft should kill Xbox or spin it off. This zombie division of a console maker doesn’t make sense.
Walk away from? Steam isn’t on my Xbox now. Or do they mean releasing Xbox published games on Steam? Don’t care about that as long as they require a PC.
“I do know like Microsoft has some plans with regards to how they show up on PC,” Corden said during the latest episode of the Xbox Two Podcast. “And I don’t know what that pertains to with regards to Steam, but the plans that I know about, and I’m being very careful here, kind of suggest it gives them a window to potentially pull out of Steam. So, I would not be shocked if eventually we do see a universe where Microsoft quits Steam.”
Yea its about Xbox games on steam.
So basically Games for Windows Live 2.0 - I’m sure that will go great. /s
So that’s weird, Xbox striking at why people use Windows over Linux or Macs. Though Linux has Proton. Mac users, I figure, just have an Xbox or PlayStation. Nobody buys a Mac for gaming.
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Bye!
imho depending on the success of shit like the steam deck and machine, we could see the functional death of console gaming (as it exists now) within the next decade or two. sony and MS are behaving as though the console market is a private garden they can suddenly start building walls around.
Crikey! Consolitis is becoming more virulent by the week.
Bye Felicia!
And nothing of value will be lost
Xbox has games on Steam? Who knew.
At first I read that as Xbox isn’t going to allow Steam on Xbox, which I thought was interesting and also didn’t know. That would have been crazy, but it was my first thought.
Xbox? Never. Not even once.
