| Aeolus451 said: Figured it wouldn't work out. MS is too anti-consumer with a lot of their "ideas". MS tried to change gaming consoles with the xbox one before the gen started. It tried it again with the windows store for PC gamers. Gamers can smell the greed a mile away. MS should have mirrored steam's service exactly and tried to improve it in small ways. Build a stronger brand by delivering good games that work and offer really good deals. Also, support mods. Over time, the windows store would have absorbed some of steam's fans into it's ranks. |
Windows Store was designed to mimick the original Android Market (pre-Google Play) more than anything else. Pet projects at Microsoft never copy the best features from other products and improve on them. Instead they copy the worst features and add layers of rubbish to them. Vista's new GUI ripped off OS X but slowed almost all hardware to a crawl. Zune was an ugly plastic ripoff of the iPod with a bad user interface. Kin were aimed at the iPhone and Blackberry but we're so bad they were killed after six weeks on the market, crippled to prevent competing with Windows Phone 7.
The closest thing to Steam out there is ironically Xbox Live, and Microsoft didn't use that as a base for their grand Metro initiative. Instead we got the awful Windows Store which, from experience, is barely functional and frustrating to use.
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