remember when microsoft said..

[arknor]

remember when microsoft said they would help pc gaming again not so long ago? (the third time now)

well heres there answer

The new service will go live on November 15th, and Microsoft have drafted in Peter Orullian, one of the brains behind XBox Live, to manage the launch. Speaking to Joystiq, Orullian said “The store is really going to be a destination for games for PC gamers, Sure, we’re going to have Live-enabled titles, and we love those, but that’s not all you’ll find here.”

Unlike Steam’s reliance on a downloadable client, Games for Windows Marketplace will have you buying games directly from their website. There will still be a separate client, but it will exist “to manage really really large files that aren’t maybe so easily managed through the web, and it’ll be your transaction history; so if you need to re-download a game, you can go and do that.”

Orullian mentions that “you should show up on day one, because we’re going to have a great pre-order on a title you may care about.”

http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/10/22/microsoft-to-relaunch-games-for-windows-marketplace/

I CAN NOT STOP LAUGHING , PLEASE HELP ME

btw we will be able to sign in with our xbox360 logins and be able to use microsoft points, sounds like its win win

 

[arknor]

Any guesses what game they're talking about? When is Deus Ex 3 due?

probably halo : reach around

 

[arknor]

MS can't leave anything alone. Bing, and now this. Do they really have to be in EVERY market?

dont see anyone ever competing with steam its to late valve won.

MS xbox live person doesnt understand pc gamers he just wants to recreate xbox live on the pc...

no pc gamers want anything like xbox live keep the xbox people away from pc they just cause people to not like you..

first we had some guy saying people no longer play FPS on pc, now we have some guy wanting to force xbox live on us..

 

[arknor]

maybe you guys need to look at it from a different perspective, every-time you playing your favorite on line game, just think had it not being for MS you would probably not be playing that game, boy do I get sick of the small minded MS bashing, for what ever faults you can lay at there door, they have by how easily they made windows from day one enhanced ever single on line game ..( besides the zillion other things they made possible).

If they turn this into the no 1 game site to d/l games its will only be because everyone else let the ball drop, steam already take the mickey with their pricing.

yes lets all bow down before the company that kills its competitors and then does what its uses down want...

 

[arknor]

Yeah let's switch to OpenGL and embrace poorer performance than DirectX, have you played any of the cross platform Steam games? Or StarCraft II? They all run worse than on Windows/DirectX.

guess you havent been into pc gaming very long because back when opengl was still considered a competitor to directx and a few game engines were opengl it was widely considered to be faster than directx.

games that could be run in either opengl or directx were nearly always faster in opengl