Why does MS have to ruin EVERYTHING with this kind of crap. Wasn't the big thing about PC gaming always that it was free from the restrictions of console games? Maybe Nintendo would be up your ass about this or that in your game but if you made it on the PC you could do whatever you want. You could have R rated content, hell you could have X rated content; you could have free online multiplayer using whatever matchmaking system you wanted, you could release games with heavy DRM or DRM free...the world was open and things were good.
Now suddenly with Games for Windows the PC is just another console. It is, in many ways, secondary to the 360 and by proxy gets all the BS that made consoles second banana for game development. The same approval process, the same backwards upgrade process...its only made worse by how horrible MS is to deal with since they're always trying to graft just a little more money off customers and pull developers into that game.
From online play costing money (which it doesn't on the Wii, PS3, PC, Mac, iphone, DS, PSP, PSPGo, Ipod Touch or anything else I can think of), to approval processes for patches (and strong encouragement for small game additions costing big money, anyone remember 3 dollar horse armor?) to a subjugation of the interface to the horrid windows live sign in crap to huge fees for using the program at all or for doing anything that makes MS look bad (IE it costs a lot extra to make a 360 game that takes 2 DVDs because it makes MS look bad for not using Blu Ray).
It is just ridiculous and even worse then Steam which I also dislike. If everything could be done stardock style with a simple to use (and NOT required) store like impulse that sells great games with no DRM that you can download as often as you want (to save hard drive space) I would be thrilled. I've spent at least 200 bucks on stardock games between Galactic Civilizations and expansions, Demigod, Sins of a Solar empire and more and would REALLY hate to see them pushed out because of all the BS Microsoft has inserted into a type of gaming that was fine without their "help" for 2 decades.
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