Ryuu96 said:
Game Pass PC has 257 titles, Game Pass Xbox has 377 titles. Not to mention Windows Store is awful and has been awful for years, the Xbox Apps are buggy as hell, Game Pass PC was in Beta for months and was also extremely buggy, EA Access for Game Pass PC was delayed for months and in the end has to be ran via the EA Access Desktop App. I honestly think developers just don't want to deal with Windows Store cause it's a mess. These titles are already on PC, already on Xbox, in recent history Xbox has made an effort to unify the kits to make porting across Xbox/PC seamless and yet developers still ignore Windows Store, cause it's awful, I don't really think we can deny that, and I think if Microsoft are paying them for Game Pass Xbox (and the title is on PC) they should also be paying out for Game Pass PC too because Microsoft 100% will need both to make Game Pass a major success. It's not the same if we're talking about developers whose sole focus has been PC, who do not make console versions of their titles, like Crusader Kings, a lot of these PC only titles simply won't work on consoles without gimping them down or forcing a keyboard/mouse requirement, this is the case for Age of Empires, you can say Halo Wars 'works' but it is a very much gimped RTS due to consoles. There's also the fact that Microsoft started out on PC and yet completely abandoned them during most of the 360 era, the fact is Microsoft have supported Xbox players for way longer than they have PC players who they abandoned and screwed over (GFWL), we have received from Microsoft far more content than PC players have, they still don't have a significant back catalogue of Xbox's IPs, we do. Hell we're even getting Flight Simulator, a franchise that started out on PC, has never in its life touched consoles. I know we're Xbox players but I mean, it's kind of well known the PC experience for Microsoft is kind of trash still, Microsoft 100% needs to put in a lot more effort there, they need to restore the good will because PC players rightfully so feel scorned by Microsoft. They should be paying for Game Pass PC, they should be fixing Windows Store with a major revamp or perhaps do their built from the ground up launcher, they should kill off Bethesda's Store too cause PC players hate it, this is the general sentiment I get from PC folk whenever Microsoft comes up. I think it's pretty telling that titles from Microsoft consistently sell amazing on Steam, not just for a few days but for months upon months, when it's cheap as hell on the Windows Store, folk in general just don't seem to want to use the store because it is bad. So they should be investing more into it or figure out a way to get Game Pass on Steam and 'abandon' the Windows Store. So yeah I think Microsoft deserves some of the blame here. |