CosmicSex said:
In short, no they don't want to have to coexist on an open platform... even if they own that open platform... but hey. The thing that fasinates me the most is how they will handle online gameplay. So can you play Forza on the Xbox Live network... for free against paying Xbox gamers? Looking at the business model they aretrying to adopt... with this title apparently free to Play... will the transactions take the place of charging for live. A few points though: "yet these recent windows 10 only games actually require way more hw than most AAA games and these are at the end of the day console ports and not built only specifically for PC in mind at all which also debunks DX 12's supposed power usage into play" I don't think these games are 'real' DX12 games though but I was certainly thinking the same thing. Any "real" DX 12 game is going to be a console port, this is how MS still operates. I don't se them making a DX 12 only PC game that's never ever going on any Xbox platform past, present or future, if it;s going to exist on PC it;s likely to exist on Xbox and even come from there first. "I honestly don't think they've learned much from the last time they tried their hand at PC gaming" I have to disagree there. Look at what I said about the F2P model. Now, I'm not saying that its a good thing for gamers at all, but I see that their strategy has really changed. I meant in a way that appeals and generally benefits the PC gamer, this new tactic just shows they haven't learned the former and instead just want to push old ideas with a new skin attached, yes you could get me to clap and go "bravo MS, you found a new way to continue your original plans, hats off to you", but you won't get me loving any of it, insetad I'll likely applaud someone else who gives up and learns to accept the reality before them and trying to work on it, that alone takes guts and effort. Finally I will add that I think the DX12 push (with Vulkan poised to dethrown it) and the shift to PC 'support are all related. ' related as they may be but I don't see what that has to do with what we've just been talking about, yes they are related but that's all that can be said. |
They don't really own the *the* open platform, they just own an OS on an open platform (just to be clear on the use of Personal Computer).
The way they think it will work will likely involve nickel and diming PC players since a good chunk of badly done F2P games have gone that route. Charing PC players to play online, I will tell you this now for the future, will not work because they tried this some years back and PC gamers said no and since then that's how it;s been but Xbox gamers entirely let it slide, that's the different today and we honestly shouldn't be demanding PC players pay to play a game they bought online that isn't an MMO (talking actual full on MMO, not a game that borrows the tiniest of elements and someone going "yup that's an MMO" without understand what an MMO means or is), if anything at this point Xbox gamers should tell MS no to paying to play online or MS is going to have to figure another way. The F2P route isn't exactly 100% going to win oevr everyone let alone guanratee success. if all their console ports become F2p variants then that's just a botched job on their part.
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