Ka-pi96 said:
Hopefully as an exclusive to Microsoft's own digital distrubtion platform set up to compete with Steam. |
lol that would be suicide. Steam is the 5,000 ton behemoth in the PC gaming space, even massive efforts like Origin are merely tolerated as a necessary evil to play certain games. Better to align with Steam than try to go around them. I can pretty much guarantee that EA would have sold more via Steam than by insisting on Origin. And I am not even one of those people who is militantly against Origin/EA. I had some issues with the browser plugins being a bitch from time to time, but overall I think the design is okay.
It's just that adding yet ANOTHER GFWL type of software would be a mess. Why? Well on the MS 'XBPC' or whatever portal, you might have up to a few dozen games (far less than that in all probability for a long time though). Wow, that's totally worth installing or having another software middleman for. Whereas on the Steam side you have tens of thousands of titles and libraries available.
Now integrating Steam more with Windows 10 would be the smartest way to go. Have the Microsoft Store app interconnected with Steam, and offer easy ways to buy games that qualify as 'apps' (playable on all windows devices) via Steam or MS Store. And have Steam be the place where MS PC-x86 DX12 games are available for purchase. The right kind of corporate partnership there would greatly benefit both parties.
Let me put it this way, Microsoft trying to go around Steam will be just as successful as Valve trying to go around Windows : iow, a disaster at worst, a mediocre also-ran at best.
