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Ganoncrotch said:
Mummelmann said:

And not a soul was surprised, this is 100% deserved, the PC community is seething after MS promised they'd be "focusing on PC again" a couple of years back. If this is them focusing on PC; I'd rather they didn't and leave it to those who have a clue how to do things right and without forcing things on consumers.

You know PC gamers are aware they are pretty much the last bastion of free online gaming, if W10 store managed somehow to get gamers to come away from steam and lure them in with candy, how long do you think it would be before you required a windows live gold sub to play games online on the PC? If MS thought they could get away with it that is.

No doubt they'd start a paid service, or simply exclude most options and functions from a free alternative. This is why I find the whole Apple vs MS battle so hilarious online; they both want the exact same thing, a closed biotope that they can micro-manage and use to make absurd amounts of money off of locked solutions and peripherals and 3rd party efforts with choking-type conditions attached to the contracts.



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Sixteenvolt420 said:
Mr Puggsly said:

In a nutshell, Chrome OS is shit compared to Windows and its app support sucks. But its fine for basic stuff like web browsing, streaming, etc.

Hoestly, pretty much all that i do with my PC, is browse the web.

In which case you'd probably quite like it. It's a fairly streamlined OS and you can get a decent chromebook for quite cheap. They don't need the same resources as Windows to run. 



That is all nothing surprising... ^^



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Mummelmann said:
Chazore said:

I rememebr reading this thread on Gaf a few years back. It details the list and documented promises MS has made to PC gamers over the years and as you can see, hardly any of them have worked out if at all: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=88868188&postcount=177

THis just shwos that MS doesn't really see PC gaming as something to allow roaming freely, they would rather control it and keep it in a box (hence the whole GFWL and the fact that they never once said they would completely do away with the system and Win 10/store is the result).

When I first heard of 10 I was positive that maybe for once things would finally start to turn out right, but then the free update turned out to be finnicky and attaching itself to your mobo when the free update expires which meant your previous 7-8 key would be rendered worthless and the current OS being chained to a single mobo which meant less options to upgrade your rig let alone a new one without having to call up the hotline in India and rabble on for a new key or paying £100 for a new one, those to me are the same old shit options that haven't really changed and it shows that MS hasn't either.

The only way minds like that truly work is when they are near the brink of death and show the will to survive, right now I don't think they give a rats ass about the state they are in because they certainly haven't spun around the wheel since their promise back in 2013 to PC gaming let alone the myriad of promises from well over a decade ago.

It's really sad when the main provider of OS and graphics acceleration software packages for a platform is the one that cares the least about actual gaming on said platform and its consumers.

I really doubt we would have DX12 (and probably Vulkan) if AMD hadn't developed Mantle...



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