Xbox Live PC free and console gamers are not happy

[mornelithe]

S.T.A.G.E. said:

mornelithe said:

The problem Microsoft has with me, is they basically made it a yearly thing, make a statement about how much PC still matters to them, and only now...after so fucking long, they're finally showing SOME movement.  Well, that amounts to jack and shit for me.  It's going to take quite some time for Microsoft to earn back my trust, and a heck of allot more enticing.  All they've done is bring back part of what was industry standard pre-360.  Now, make standalone/private servers, mapmaking and mod tools an industry standard once again, and we'll actually be back to 2005.

Its not even going to be much movement. MS is going to have to start throwing more exclusives at PC gamers. If they do that then the console gamers have ever right to throw their consoles out the window. MS would've sold them out and the biggest mistake MS could ever make is pissing off the console gamers.

Ultimately, I think this is actually the sticky situation microsoft have made for themselves.  Many of their games come to PC anyway, so you're absolutely right, the console core might get disenfranchised, whereas, much of Sony's 1st party studios do not develop for PC.  Which gives them a bit more flexibility, in this regard (I've never paid for PS+ though, hate MP on console).

So, it'll be interesting to see how Microsoft handles it.  Will they do virtually the same thing to their console fans, that they did to their PC fans?  A big middle finger and 'deal with it', or, will they come up with something else?