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KLAMarine on 05 July 2017
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4k1x3r said:
KLAMarine said:

I often come across the complaint that many XBox 1 games that would have otherwise been exclusives are also put on PC thus rendering them non-exclusives and I'm wondering why people complain?

Does a game being available on more than one platform not make it more readily available to people thus benefiting the consumer? Is the ability to play a game on more than one configuration not a good thing? PS4 and Switch exclusives can only be played on their respective platforms but with XBox1/PC, you have more choice.

Online gaming on PC is free last I checked so you don't even need to pay a subscription fee to play these games online. Microsoft undermines their own efforts to charge for online multiplayer by making their otherwise-XBox 1 exclusive games also available on PC.

Already got a gaming PC? Great! No need to buy an XBox 1 and we the consumers win but I cannot recall any time wherein Microsoft has received rightful praise for their pro-consumer policy of making their software available on XBox 1 AND PC rather than just locking their software to one box.

 

What's the deal with people complaining instead of praising?

It's not just people being mad that the games can be played on pc

Which is silly because the alternative, the game not being playable on PC AT ALL, is worse.

4k1x3r said:

it's the sheer number of exclusives that is flat out underwhelming AND the few that are available are not really exclusives.

A game is a game regardless of whether or not it's exclusive.

Aeolus451 said:
That's backwards logic at it's best right there. Exclusives are the main reason why gamers choose one platform over the other. That's a fact.

When you say that, I think back to how some of the best-selling titles on 360 and PS3 were the same games. I also think of the exclusive games on the WiiU and yet the WiiU sold poorly.

Aeolus451 said:
MS has likely lost interest in competing in the console gaming market. The only reason why MS would put it's xbox (devaluing the console) exclusives on win 10 is to incentivise people into getting win 10/using windows store to compete with steam. It's not a benefit at all for consumers because games bought from windows store can't be modded. PC gamers won't touch windows store because of that. /thread

Be that as it may, the alternative, X1 games not being playable on PC AT ALL, is worse.