Leaked Microsoft Video Reveals Horrible Future for PC Gaming

[Ickabod]

If it's not M$ it will be someone else. Point is, we are going this direction already. It's not a question of if, it's a question of when and by whom. PC gaming is more and more casual by the day. And while WoW may have 12 million or so people playing it, Farmville has triple that number. The majority of the people on this site are "hardcore" gamers, or at least more hardcore than Farmville, but it doesn't change the fact that the market is moving to a casual market like shown in the video, because that's where the customers are.

 

[Genixma]

How about we just keep it at is? K?

K.

 

[LtWiesel]

This is just creepy...but if my steam profile would be an Avatar I would totally buy that pink dress!

 

[tologna]

*sound of chair falling to the ground*
*creeking sound of taut rope*

 

[tologna]

(double post, disregard this) I must have waited at least 3-4 minutes for it to post, though.

 

[Rensenhito]

It's just oh-so fitting that pwned would be misspelled in this. I mean, really, it's the little things about Microsoft that are the most telling. What this tells us is that they are almost completely out-of-touch with gamers who aren't 40-year-old women with 2.5 children and nothing better to do with their free time.
Or maybe that's too harsh. Maybe this will be good for gaming. Who can say?
I just think the odds are highly in favor of this little project falling on its ugly neon ass.

 

[Vampire cat]

I wouldn't mind this... I always liked the idea of 1 highly compatible and easily used "system" that could incorporate all of my daily PC activities like games, websites, forums, voice chats and IM. Being able to do so in a bright and fun looking environment (or being able to customize it to look completely different, if you so wanted)would be great I think.

If they actually get this properly implemented and it becomes what it looks like, a more developed version of what Steam currently is, I'll definitely start using it. Sure this is not the most masculine video ever seen, but how insecure are you? Some comments in this thread seem to judge the software based on the apparent misspelling of "pwned", and that' just silly...

The little insight we get into the workings of this don't seem half bad, and no one ever said you HAD to play FarmVille or buy online clothes with this thing, I sure won't. I do like the idea of an easy-to-use overlay for the daily rutines, while preserving the accessability that Windows currently has.

Give it to meh Microsoft...

EDIT:

It was fine until the guy misspelled pwn3d. Even Pwned would have been acceptable, but POwned? WTF IS THAT SHIT!

microsoft! Hey you! Do you really want to coincide the entire PC market to steam?

I rest my case...

 

[Dice Warwick]

if they combine it with X-box live, then it might be ok, let the main gameing comunity do their stuff on the Xbox, and their mom's can have the computer.

 

[Jamous]

Oh....Oh God. I feel dirty. I feel so hideously hideously dirty.

Hey Look! Microsoft wants to turn the PC into the Xbox! I'll be busy using steam, thank you very much.

Staying with Steam sounds like a very good idea. It might wash the dirt off. *shudders*

 

[JonnWood]

Let's play Farmville!...FOREVER.

 

[BlueSinbad]

Won't EA just think of the children?! Oh wait...those games cater exactly for them...bugger.

 

[JonnWood]

I actually applaud Microsoft for this. Causual gamers are cash cows waiting to be milked in over priced micro transactions. As a Golden Age gamer I say this is a great idea since it will mean more money in the video games industry to make better games and make gaming into a more acceptable social activity and less of a sin against moralities like the news media keeps proclaiming.

So a lot of the Hardcore gamers are pissed off, big deal! I was pissed of when the Hardcore audience was formed with the help of the Xbox and thanks to your money games targeted at Golden Age gamers are more awesome then we could ever conceive. Just think of the Casual gamer as more of a giant wallet with money to spread all over the games industry.

Considering that a lot of "hardcore" PC gamers tend to be neckbearded misanthropes who think "social networking" is a four-letter word*, I doubt they'd use this stuff anyway.

Said gamers also seem to have a vested interest in making sure any PC games more involved than Mystery Case Files are kept...impenetrable. I'm not sure why they seem to be so scared of the idea of their platform of choice actually becoming popular for more involved games.

*DISCLAIMER: Use of stereotypes for comedic effect.

 

[mGoLos]

I'll just copy/paste what I said about this earlier:

So... who are they targeting with this?

The casual market is already on facebook, and GFWL is nowhere near as user-friendly, so they won't be using this.
The hardcore PC gamer market isn't exactly on the best of terms with Microsoft for obvious reasons.
And everyone else either doesn't care or just uses Steam.
Any Xbox owners they'd hope to target will have Xbox's, and won't really care. They'll just do the stuff the video showed on their 360's. Unless they're going after the people who'll want to change Xbox stuff on their PC's. In which case thats a pretty specific market to target. Since anyone with a gaming PC will probably be turned off by the look of all of this.

So... yeah, whats their plan, exactly?

I'm pretty sure we're dealing with incompetents here. The same guys who keeps making the same game about buffed, repressed space marines.

 

[JonnWood]

I'll just copy/paste what I said about this earlier:

So... who are they targeting with this?

The casual market is already on facebook, and GFWL is nowhere near as user-friendly, so they won't be using this.
The hardcore PC gamer market isn't exactly on the best of terms with Microsoft for obvious reasons.
And everyone else either doesn't care or just uses Steam.
Any Xbox owners they'd hope to target will have Xbox's, and won't really care. They'll just do the stuff the video showed on their 360's. Unless they're going after the people who'll want to change Xbox stuff on their PC's. In which case thats a pretty specific market to target. Since anyone with a gaming PC will probably be turned off by the look of all of this.

So... yeah, whats their plan, exactly?

I'm pretty sure we're dealing with incompetents here. The same guys who keeps making the same game about buffed, repressed space marines.

Any other witty and original stereotypes you'd like to invoke?

 

[Optimystic]

Dear flamers from The Big Picture: MOVIE BOB WAS RIGHT.

You may not like it. You may not agree with it. But his line of thinking and those of the megacorps are completely in sync. This video is proof.

 

[JonnWood]

Dear flamers from The Big Picture: MOVIE BOB WAS RIGHT.

You may not like it. You may not agree with it. But his line of thinking and those of the megacorps are completely in sync. This video is proof.

An internal video of something that may not ever actually exist.

Not that Bob didn't make some good points, loath as I am to admit it, but "proof" seems a bit strong.

 

[CoL0sS]

Funny, when I saw this, I immediately imagined opening crawl saying "Be really, really, really, really, really afraid". Dear God, they're really running out of ideas. This is so unnecessary, they'll probably get "p0wned".

 

[mGoLos]

I'll just copy/paste what I said about this earlier:

So... who are they targeting with this?

The casual market is already on facebook, and GFWL is nowhere near as user-friendly, so they won't be using this.
The hardcore PC gamer market isn't exactly on the best of terms with Microsoft for obvious reasons.
And everyone else either doesn't care or just uses Steam.
Any Xbox owners they'd hope to target will have Xbox's, and won't really care. They'll just do the stuff the video showed on their 360's. Unless they're going after the people who'll want to change Xbox stuff on their PC's. In which case thats a pretty specific market to target. Since anyone with a gaming PC will probably be turned off by the look of all of this.

So... yeah, whats their plan, exactly?

I'm pretty sure we're dealing with incompetents here. The same guys who keeps making the same game about buffed, repressed space marines.

Any other witty and original stereotypes you'd like to invoke?

Yeah something about motion controlled, casual-fondling garbage, but more importantly, how'd you like to voice an opinion relevant to something?

 

[Iscin]

God bless Steam. Developers have been abandoning the Windows Live "experience" for some time now anyway. Steamworks FTW!

 

[Shinotama]

Thank god for Steam.
The only thing I never feel like criticising Valve over.

To you sir, I salute