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Microsoft is bringing Xbox 360 games to PC
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There was a time when, surprisingly, Microsoft created games for the Microsoft operating system. Good games, I might add.
Then some absolutely moronic motherfucker was like 'but what if we abandoned all of that in an attempt to make pc gamers buy another, shitter, locked-down pc?'. And they fucking ran with it.
yeah but does no one recall "The Internet Gaming Zone"? sure they made good games but if you wanted to play those games online with ease on PC then hope your PC came with IE or you had a decent modem to then download IE if your PC only came with Netscape.
One of the first decent PCs my parents bought in like '97 only came with Netscape. it was shortly after the time when the US Government said Microsoft can't force every Windows Install to include IE. so some PC makers decided to go with Netscape instead. IE was a big download for the time too so imagine trying to download that on a 28.8 modem. took all day just to play X-wing Vs Tie Fighter or Age of Empires online because unless you knew the IP of the person you wanted to play and they knew yours you weren't playing online.
So yes Microsoft has made good games for Windows but they've always been shitty about it.
I knew about the 'gaming zone' but at the time I played multiplayer across serial (shoutout to radioshack having everything I needed). A few years later when we got broadband, I just used direct IP. Still working today, no hassle other than either port forwarding or setting a vpn between machines. Will take direct IP every time over Live or other services that will eventually die (hello Gamespy; at least I can use a hex editor to use 3rd party GS servers).
If we haven’t already passed it, we are rapidly coming up on 10 years that Microsoft’s game releases have been for both Windows and Xbox Consoles.
Kind of - the MS Store is, still, absolute garbage. When FH3 launched, I order it on the store since that was the only option. I had to uninstall and reinstall the name no less than two dozen times during it's lifecycle, because of bugs that would corrupt game files. Still, 10 years later, there are only some games that allow you to verify files. After buying 3, 4, and Halo Wars 2: never again.
Oh, and 4 won't launch for me now, for some reason. I remember it being a widespread issue with no official fix. 3 works, but pc multiplayer is broken, and they are aware but will not fix it. You can watch other players on the map, but cannot see or interact with them in the world. Total bs. For 4, they introduced a slew of bugs right before the steam launch, and never fixed them (many remain in 5 and 6, ffs), since 5 was less than a year from launch. And HW2 has/had an issue where it would play fine for ~20 minutes, lock up, and crash.
Quality programming, truly. It's not like the company that makes the operating system should be able to make software for that operating system. That's so silly. Meanwhile games from the 90s and early 00s that were developed by Microsoft still work well, some 30+ years later.
Bonkers.
Claiming the store releases are usable PC releases and any customer ought to be subjected to them... eh.
I mean the idea is kinda cool, I give them that. But the technical implementation is so shitty, it actively makes buying a game that is on sale on MS Store but not on Steam on Steam instead of MS Store a good value proposition. For one, your savegames don't need an external tool to decrypt like wtf MS?!