Microsoft comments on Gears of War 2 debacle

[vlad321]

mike_intellivision said:
Microsoft is tired of people playing for free.
PC players would not buy Xbox Live subs -- so this is their revenge, they won't release (themselves) any PC games that are from their console collection.
It makes good (short-run) business sense -- but may force people to start buying substitutes from your competitors (bad long-run business).

Mike from Morgantown

 

Of coure they didn't, online services such as Battle.net have been around since '98 and they are completely free. Now comes along M$ 10 years later and expects PC players to just start throwing money to play a subpar online experience (it's subpar compared to other PC shooters not other console games) online. Anyone else see something messed up with their plan?

I agree that Microsoft is shooting itself in the foot by not having PC games released and jsut keeping them on a console. Even fewer people are gonna want to buy vista now than before. I also can't think of any PC gamer worth his salt that would buy a 360 solely just because GoW2 is exclusive to it. All in all, this decision makes me laugh, and kinda sad because GoW was one of the few co-op shooters I have played since DOOM. Ah well I guess I will be playing TF2 more now.