I'm not sure why you are asking this but whatever.

OT: They should announce the release date for PC during the X1/windows event.

Some of those (like VSync and the bordless fullscreen) seem to be deliberate design choices, I don't know if they will want to change them.

CG Projekt has no problems launching their games on Steam despite having their own store. It's a shame that MSoft has decided to take the same route as EA.

Instead of making the PC market grow, they are only fracturing it and making it smaller .

See I would totally get behind MS if they just threw those titles onto Steam and supported Windows 7-10. I'd give them all my money but it's unlikely to happen ebcause this whole shindig of them offering really late ports to PC involves us having to adhere to a set of rules while also losing options and to me that is probably one of the biggerst downsides I've seen MS give out in some years. 

I know they claim they don't see Steam as competition and want them to grow but it's clear they don't, they don't want Steam to grow but they want their store to grow just as big but lacking all the good things and features that made Steam great. Honestly I agree, it's likely that them sticking to their guns (for once they stick to it at the wrong time) will just fracture the PC market than keeping it together, I'm already split up from buying Ubisoft titles thanks to Uplay being in the mix and I;m honestly not going to buy from EA thanks to Star Wars Battlefront and how they treated that.

I don't think MS wants PC to have an open eco system, I think they just want PC to literally be just all MS, all on one OS, all using one API like a console, which isn't really what PC ever is or ever will be.

Hopefully none soon. I want to play all Halo and GeoW on my PC.

Trying to build a monopoly isn't completely wrong, after all, it's what every company goes after (getting 100% of the market).

The problem is when you're so obsessed with that, that don't see the reality that surrounds you.

Kinda reminds me of first Quake's system requirement, although don't get excited, Windows store apps is like living in the sandbox, just warning you.. According to Chazore.

Edit: "According to Chazore." lol what i was thinking? I must be tired yesterday. Yeah, i love you Chazore. <3

It's not "according to Chazore", but what actually happens:

http://wccftech.com/windows-store-terrible-support-games-microsoft-fix/

Let’s take Rise of the Tomb Raider as an example. The Windows Store version of the game is an app built with the Universal Windows Platform, an app architecture first introduced with Windows 10. The main goal of the UWP (designed as an extension of Windows Runtime) is to allow developers to create applications that can run on multiple devices such as PC, phones, tablets or even Xbox One; this obviously fits Microsoft’s overall strategy about a larger, interconnected Windows ecosystem.

The big problem is that UWP apps have severe limitations right now when it comes to gaming. For instance, there is no way to enable Exclusive Fullscreen mode as Borderless Fullscreen is enforced. While the latter mode is useful to go back easily to Windows via Alt-Tab, it should be an option (just like in every PC game) rather than an obligation, mostly because it brings certain disadvantages.

Borderless Fullscreen mode generally brings a slight performance loss, for starters, and more importantly it enforces V-Sync; Nixxes, the studio responsible for the PC version of Rise of the Tomb Raider, confirmed that there is currently no way to prevent this in the UWP framework.

Enforcing V-Sync brings another share of issues to the table. Again, this should be an option rather than an obligation as in any PC game; V-Sync introduces input lag, as most of you already know, and there are better options nowadays to prevent tearing. For instance, NVIDIA’s GSYNC cannot be enabled as long as V-Sync is enforced, and people have paid a significant premium when they bought their displays specifically to use GSYNC.

There’s more, anyway. NVIDIA SLI & AMD CrossFire aren’t supported, much to the dismay of those of you who own multiple discrete GPUs; there is no compatibility with several overlay programs either, such as Afterburner, FRAPS and even the popular post-processing injector ReShade. Finally, downloads are inexplicably slow and even patches are being rolled with a substantial delay (maybe Microsoft is running them through some kind of certification, though this is just a guess).

It’s important to note that the blame rests squarely on Microsoft and the limitations imposed by the UWP framework. In fact, the Steam version of Rise of the Tomb Raider suffers from none of the aforementioned issues.

Man, you need a beast to run this game well.

They should put the original release of Gears on Windows Store as well for crappy PCs.

I don't think that's in their cards for selling to people with less decent builds, especially the type that don't emet Win 10's requirements, even then they could just play the game at medium to low settings.

Not like it's going to matter though with how the store and games will work along with no kind of mod support.

Surprisingly, Windows 8/10 run signficantly better on slower machines than Windows Vista/7. I have Windows 10 running on an old Pentium 4 PC, works fine. That same PC runs like crap using Vita/7.

Also, Windows 10 doesn't have high GPU requirements. Most PCs at retail have low end GPUs. Many could potentially run the original release of Gears, but not Ultimate Edition.

I know MS won't do it. But they really should bring their catalog to Windows Store.