| Azzanation said: Of course they are competing, however Steam isn't a horrible factor for MS. MS also make money off Steam and Steam also promotes Windows devices. |
Microsoft only makes cash from Steam if they are the owners/publishers of a title or gain royalties from any technology being used.
Otherwise they get nothing.
And like you pointed out before, Microsoft is moving away from Steam anyway. ;)
And whether it promotes Windows Devices or not is inconsequential, it's still not a 30% cut on all sold software.
| Azzanation said: If MS saw Steam as a threat to there business model they wouldn't be releasing some of there games on it. |
Microsoft hasn't released a game on Steam since September last year.
Games like Cuphead made it to Steam because Microsoft was not the developer or publisher for the title... And thus Microsoft got absolutely nothing from it.
| Azzanation said: However MS aren't against Steam as much as others want to believe, Apple and other OS's like Linux are the threats to MS. If MS saw Steam as a threat to there business model they wouldn't be releasing some of there games on it. I mean what do we take them for? |
Well, you recognized that Microsoft is a competitor to Steam and vice versa.
You also recognized that Microsoft isn't going to release all it's titles on Steam.
I think that kind of says it all, regardless of either of our opinions or sentiment.
| Azzanation said: The reason Valve created the Steam Machine was due to panic of MS invading the PC digital side of games. Steam's counter against that was to compete with MS's Xbox however unfortunately for Valve it didn't turn out that well. |
Valve tries all sorts of things. I think everyone and their pet cat knew that Steam Machines weren't going to set the world on fire.
Why? Because they were essentially just entering into the OEM PC market.
| Azzanation said: Valve also don't like to use DX and they tend to be pushing OpenGL which is why Windows 10 Store exists, so it creates competition for MS's own API. For some reason MS want to heavily support DX, I don't know why but they hold that API close to there heart. Win10 is to support DX for PC and Xbox is to support DX for consoles. |
Valve uses and supports Direct X when it makes sense.
You can support both Direct X and OpenGL at the same time you know, like Half Life 2... Either way, developers have been leveraging and using both Direct X and OpenGL for decades, nothing has or will change on that front... Thus your claim that Microsoft took a reactionary measure with Windows Store is laughable.
In saying that, not all developers will be using Direct X even on the Xbox One, the Xbox One does have more than 1 API you know, there are low-level API's designed to extract as much capability from the hardware as possible.
| Azzanation said: In saying all that, I see Xbox reducing there support for Steam but not entirely. |
I concur. Microsoft has never truly given a shit about PC gaming, but the writing on the wall has been there for a long time now.
| Azzanation said: They will compete with Steam but they wont destroy Steam. If anything I see low selling MS titles still arriving on Steam while there big hitters remain a selling point for Win10 and Xbox. |
Well. PC gamers tend to love and adore Steam, you don't hear the same kind of sentiment about the Windows Store or Xbox.
Can that change? Possibly, but Microsoft needs to do allot of work, because Games for Windows Live! is still fresh in allot of gamers minds.
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