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Jaycee_Bam on 24 July 2010
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selnor said:
Jaycee_Bam said:
selnor said:
 

Where the hell do you miss the M$ exclusive part? I didnt say 360 exclusive. It's Games for Windows. Who owns windows?

You may not like the fact M$ make money from PC to, but it's fact.

Get over it. It's a M$ exclusive. 

I saw that, and no I do not have a problem with Microsoft profiting off of it, but this whole using adjectives to change perceptions is shallow. You're oversimplifying the platform for the corporation. When in reality the PC can't simply be classified as a Microsoft platform. This whole mentaility is what leads to people thinking that in some capacity Fable 3 is exclusive, because it is only be released on Microsoft platforms, 'only' going to their bank account.

The gaming world is broader than that, and the use of adjectives to justify a game being exclusive or multiplatform only works in specific examples, such as the term console exclusive, when comparing the PS3 and 360's libraries. But calling it a Microsoft game, and using that to justify it's location in the Xbox sub-forum (as per it's description), as oppose to the sub-forum for general gaming (for multiplatform titles) just does not cut it.

The section is clearly called Microsoft Forum. And as the game is actually a Games For Windows game, and not just a standard PC game, it's completely justified for it to be called a M$ exclusive. No other operating system can run it, and no other console can run it. Only M$ products.

 

As far as I am concerned the ‘Microsoft’ forum with respect to gaming, is for the Xbox, perhaps I am reading its description too literally though. From a financial perspective, it would make complete sense IMO, but when you are raising awareness/having a general discussion for a multiplatform game it should be in the general gaming forum.

 It’s not like we have a sub-forum for every individual publisher, why should manufacturing a console change that? Beyond the balance sheet I see no reason for the term MS exclusive; it’s like saying Ubisoft/Blizzard/etc. exclusive. 

" Wait a second... Are you trying to say that a game developed by Microsoft, published by Microsoft on a console made by Microsoft and also released on the Microsoft service "Games for Windows", shouldn't be in the Microsoft forums? "

Being exclusive to a publisher, apart from the balance sheet, is not worth noting. Sure you can make the distinction, but it’s pointless.