Microsoft To Publish Games On Steam

[LoadsaMoney]

The biggest news is that Microsoft’s games will now be published on Steam as well, starting with Gears 5 later this year, which means gamers won’t be forced to go with the less-than-ideal Microsoft Store. Another controversial facet of the store is that it had been so far limited to the oft-criticized Universal Windows Platform, and Spencer also revealed games on the Microsoft Store will now support the Win32 format as well.

https://wccftech.com/microsoft-goes-all-in-pc-gaming-xbox-game-pass/

No more having to use the MS Store.

 

[Gimpymoo]

DEATH TO EGS - HOORAH

Smiley.

 

[MurphyBrix]

Just seen this news on PC Gamer. I was more drawn to this Xbox Game Pass. Has there been any threads on here yet about it?

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

Hopefully that will include some of their back catalog. I rather fancy playing Close Combat 3 again sometime.

 

[HKZonda]

FH4 on Steam

 

[loftie]

This is good news IMO. I didn't mind the MS store right up until the ******* nightmare I had with state of decay 2. Put me off ever getting anything even slightly large on there. Even the customer support rep just folded the moment I mentioned the store as the reason I wanted to refund SoD2.

 

[StriderX]

Huh, why are they giving up on their ecosystem?

I thought all the movements they’ve made since win 10 came out was an attempt to kill off all third party store apps?

I guess azure must be hot ****.

 

[varkanoid]

This is good news IMO. I didn't mind the MS store right up until the ******* nightmare I had with state of decay 2. Put me off ever getting anything even slightly large on there. Even the customer support rep just folded the moment I mentioned the store as the reason I wanted to refund SoD2.

Yes SOD2 was one of the biggest disappointments of last year for me. This is nothing but good news.

 

[Marky]

This is great news

 

[malachi]

Thought this happened already as Killer Instinct has been on Steam since last year.

 

[AWPC]

MS are finally in their own way admitting that the ONLY way they can chase all the money being lost to other publishers & services on PC is embrace the mainstream demand!

 

[NoobCannon]

Wonder how much epic will offer them to go there instead

 

[ic1male]

Wonder how much epic will offer them to go there instead

I don't think Microsoft would make an exclusive deal with Epic at all. They're trying to win back the good will of PC gamers and doing that would just set them back to step one.

 

[cheesyboy]

Wonder how long it will be until MS launch their next poorly thought out PC gaming store.

 

[ic1male]

I think there is a distinction between Xbox Game Studios games and Xbox Game Pass for PC. From what I understand, if you want to access the 100+ games as part of the Game Pass, then you need to use Windows Store to play them.

If you want to buy Xbox Game Studios games then you can buy them on Windows Store or Steam, starting with Gears 5.

At first read, I thought the Game Pass would be a Steam thing (as that's where all the games already are) but unlikely.

 

[Minusorange]

Wonder how much epic will offer them to go there instead

I don't think M$ can be bought like small fry game devs

 

[Martini1991]

Microsoft in common sense shocker.
They've got to retrospectively release games.
State of Decay 2, Halo Wars 2 etc.

 

[Amnesia]

hopefully games already bought on ms store can be transferred over to steam.

 

[FrozenShivers]

This is very good news!

 

[PiKe]

hopefully games already bought on ms store can be transferred over to steam.

Highly doubt that.