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slowmo on 22 June 2010
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Scoobes said:
slowmo said:
Foamer said:

It's probably to push Kinect for Windows or whatever they're going to call, it or maybe a response to Valve porting Steam and various games to OSX. Microsoft has done more to damage PC gaming than any other company I can think of.


Were you trying to be deliberately obtuse?

Explain to me how gaming is worse now than it was when I had to use several boot disks in DOS to run my games and how each game had settings for the hardware in my PC.  Microsoft revelutionized gaming with Windows 95 and have created many evolutions on the platform since.  why should they as a company keep elements going that aren't making enough money or meeting the company goals.  I'm afraid you'll find many publishers ignoring the PC long before Microsoft focused on the 360 did the damage.

You're either very young or someone with a irrational dislike for a company.

What exactly have MS done since 2004 that has promoted PC gaming? They used to be one of the major PC publishers with some top games like Age of Empires, Rise of Nations Flight Simulator etc. Since 2004/2005 Microsoft have shifted focus to 360 and deliberately reduced the PC gaming side of their business.

  • Closing and selling PC centric developers in favour of 360 developers.
  • Trying to charge PC gamers for using a version of Live that had almost no game support and to play online, something that'd been free on PC for many years.
  • Having old X-box 1 games (Halo 2) require Dirext X10 to run even though the graphics were outdated on release

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Which PC devs and publishers ignored PC exactly? And before MS concentrated on 360? Most games are now multiplatform, that doesn't mean the PC isn't getting those games, it means devs and publishers have expanded to consoles.

So if we assume you mean ignoring all the technological advances they've made with directx then maybe they'e lighter these days in terms of software publishing but I hardly see how it is THEIR responsibility for propping up the PC market.  I don't see you guys complaining how Sony and Nintendo are killing the PC segment by refusing to go multiplatform onto PC.  I find it rather ludicrous reasoning you're using to just bash Microsoft personally.  There is a HUGE list of publishers and developers not supporting the PC in any way at all far more deserving of the scorn.

 

1.  I personally would have wrote closed poorly performing/not profitable developers which mkes perfrct business sense.  I was gutted Ensemble closed, I loved Halo Wars but the development schedule on that game alone showed the problems possibly brewing underneath the surface.

2.  Charging for GFW failed miserably and there is no charge anymore.  The only thing this damaged was their profits not gaming on the PC.  It's grasping at straws suggesting otherwise.

3.  They have a right to sell their own software and make money, once again I find it rather hypocritical you aren't having a go at companies doing far more damage.