Oh my! This changes everything.

Stupid me, I just focued casual crap like Farmville, the American Idol thing, some social interactivity, Bejeweled being played via Bing... and I thought MS was trying to appeal to a casual audience.

But they put icons of core games and some shooting action at the end. Clearly MS was trying to appeal to the savvy core audience when they made this...

Damage control at its finest. You jsut got called out and now you are trying to damage control the damage control. That is kind of funny.

OT:

What the fuck is this shit?

No, I'm serious. This is clearly a video intended to appeal to core gamers.

No doubt about it.

I... can't... stop... laughing.....

Honestly when Ensemble closed I gave up on PC gaming. I mainly played AOE and StarCraft on PC prior to giving up. Now seeing this, man Microsoft your screwing up big time. Not to mention their obvious support for FaceBook plugging it throughout the trailer.

Main thing I like the X-Box and so do 52-million people, if you want to get gamers off their 360's and back onto PC's you have to offer something new. Avatar's are not going to improve anything on PC gaming or even casual's. Why have an avatar when you have a real picture of yourself on your profile.

Man I can't imagine having an avatar on FaceBook or MSN Messenger or anywhere actually. I'd much rather use my real picture for social media. Then FarmVille are you serious why would anyone use Windows to play a FaceBook game when they can play on FaceBook?

I find it funny that PC gaming has fallen so far that Microsoft is playing catch up to its own console (360) and competitors (Apple's) social network gaming.

Now if this is to market to the casual non-gamers, it won't work. Why? Because every casual will see FarmVille and FaceBook and think "Why the heck do I need a windows PC for this", hardcore gamers see that and go "What the ___". This video doesn't appeal to anyone as far as I see it.

Their is no place for avatar's on FaceBook, MSNMessenger or most if not all other functions which a PC carries out. Their is no need for Bing to play many puzzle games or FaceBook titles. Microsoft has nothing to gain from these additions, other then the ability to look really stupid!

It's a gui and not much different than what they have on the X-box, it shows off ALL the utility of PC gaming which include community gaming, casual gaming, monetised content that PC gamer are used to having for free (re: DLC) and yes even core gaming. If you break it down, there is really nothing horrifying about it, it just looks retarded as hell to watch xD.

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Pugsly is right it is clearly geared towards the casual audience, showing 5 seconds of a male avatar scrolling some core titles, when the other 5 minutes was a female avatar shopping for clothes, or a mom accepting a sheep on farmville does not make this MS vision for PC gaming.  If you want to discuss the topic atleast do it with a little class, Puglsy was right, the topic thread is misleading especially for a Mod created thread.

OT:  I hate that crap and I wish MS would move away from it.  I want quality core titles not the continued over evaluation of Zygna games that makes almost nothing in profit yet is valued in the billions.  Smart investors will see this for the bubble it is and short this once they go public.

well good luck to MS, they sink Millions into there games for windows live crap which they fought Pc gamers would pay for the limited service compared to xbox when there was an "Free" and "better" option in steam and fail. Then they will probably sink Millions into creating applications that bring the forced xbox stuff which i doubt many use and those who use it probably do because they are bored and its there and they are paying for it. 

Do i care: no 

Will it work: no 

What will be the end result: an tiny dent in MS wallet and an few people getting fired for suggesting such abominations,and MS repuation among pc gamers will sink to an low because PC gamers and gamers in general dont like it when things aren't the same as what they want, they dont care if that they dont want to play it, they hate it because they can. 

bing's an failure as well. Who uses bing???, Every feature bing had over google are now on google, so basically MS just helped improve google by sinking millions into an search engine. 

How is it in any way misleading?  They're demonstrating a concept GUI that spans all GFWL games.  From Farmville to Metro 2033, it's all PC gaming.

Though Farmville, much like the previously mentioned Sins of a Solar Empire and Halo 3, is not a GFWL title.