Chazore said:
The general idea of merging Xbox and Windows along with tablets and the like into their UWP, is just that. They are aiming for a single number count, where they get the bigger number under one banner. It makes sense for them to take full control of PC gaming and lock it down towards creating a console like enviroment where they are in control and you are limited as to what you can do, who is supported etc. |
I know it makes sense to Microsoft, but it is a really grimm possibility to gamers. For decades PC has been an open and free ecosystem, and trying to turn it into an Apple-like system would basically crash a lot of the activity currently there (mods gone, user-made patches gone, resurrecting unsupported games gone, push other storefronts by controlling the OS, sharing games that aren't sold anymore would be forbidden...). And once Microsoft succeeds in turning the PC market into a console-like environement, who's to say they won't force XBox Live and charge for the multiplayer?
