Leaked Microsoft Video Reveals Horrible Future for PC Gaming

[escapador]

I'd be really worried if that were a Valve video. It's just Microsoft.

 

[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.

Why does it being internal matter? I'm willing to bet that internal video cost more to make (in billable hours) than any 3 productions of similar length here on the Escapist combined.

You don't shell out that kind of dough without a concrete pitch or brand to go with it. Microsoft is serious about this.

1. Microsoft.
2. This wouldn't be the first time something got cancelled after a ton of effort has been poured into it. Case in point [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever].

 

[Treblaine]

*watches video in entirety*

Oh holy GOD! What in sweet fuck is THAT! Why? WHYYYYY!?!?

It's like Steve Ballmer was genetically engineered in some government laboratory to fuck things up beyond all belief.

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

This is worse than even Xbox, it has all the negative things of Xbox but NONE of the positive, this is more like some failed Wii/iPod rip-off lowest common denominator bullshit.

"the future of PC gaming is upon us
The question is who will lead and who
will follow? Are you ready to change
the world? We are."

What the fuck Microsoft, if you have your head any further up your own ass you would implode. This is not the future, it is not HERE, I'll tell you where it was it was; in 2003 when Valve launched Steam and you have done jack fucking shit since then to appreciate their success.

You are eight fucking years late and STILL doing it wrong! EVERYTHING you have mentioned Steam and others have been doing for years and doing it BETTER!

But the worst part is Microsoft have SO much money and SO much control of the market you may just be crazy enough to force this through by money, bullying and coercion.

"Windows Gaming eXperience"

There is something so disturbing in a Cult-like about describing a shitty service as an "experience". My first kiss was "an experience" this isn't an experience unless you include your first experience of haemoraging Dysentery as an "experience".

Fuck this, this is the lowest i've ever seen microsoft go, of god I almost want to beleive it is fake but I know that really by now this is all i should expect from microshit.

Steve Ballmer needs to resign NOW, he is running Windows into the ground like when Apple got rid of jobs. I hate to say it but we need Gates back, at least he had respect for what a PC is supposed to be.

 

[sosolidshoe]

Actually... I don't think this will necessarily be a bad idea.
Microsoft is opening the gamer market to casual gamers, but I see no reason to think they're going to dismiss 'hardcore' gamers.
The main problems don't rest with what's been displayed, but whether they're going to force you to update in order to play a game and whether they're going to force you to use a matchmaking service as opposed to picking from a server list.

You see no reason to think they'll dismiss core gamers? Really? How about the material shown here. This is the big announcement about the future of PC gaming Microsoft have been gabbling about for months now. This is the announcement which signals their return to considering the PC an important platform. This is the announcement we were told would signal a new golden age for PC gaming. And what is the announcement? What does it say to a core gamer on the PC platform? It says: We wish you were a 360 gamer, but since we can't make you be one, we'll just have to make do with this instead.

If Huxley were alive today, he would literally be running down the road yelling "I TOLD YOU SO!" over and over again.

 

[Korzack]

Aaah, good ol' Microsoft - gainfully leaping onto bandwagons after they left the station (Not to mention taking a 4 steps backwards for every one forward)
It is nice how they're actually considering the more casual gamers as well as the AAA lot, but considering how much they cocked up with GFWL on multiple attempts, safe to say I'll be letting this pass on by after a brief "See how this works oh not very well" phase

 

[lizards]

the music sounds like something pheonix might make........O YA MAIN TOPIC MY BAD, so? what maybe its because im not really much of a gamer (sorry yahtzee) but this doesnt bother me as much as it does everyone else

 

[Headsprouter]

I facepalmed when i saw P0wned....well, facepalmed, and threw up in my mouth a little.

 

[King Toasty]

...Everything is cold. So cold.
I thought Nintendo was bad, alienating a core market with the Wii.
But this... it's like Microsoft is proud of it.

 

[JimmyC99]

I'm going to hide in my steam account and pretend this didn't happen, anyone wanna join me theres cake. and TF2.

irregardless of what Microsoft is trying to do with GFWL, unofficial reports put steam at like 95% market share for the digital market, and steam gets games GFWL doesn't, simply put Steam is the King of the Hill and his got a big gun to make sure you don't get near him at all.

 

[PAGEToap44]

AAAAAAAAAH! No need, stay on Facebook Farmville, where you belong...

Also I feel this is appropriate...
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[brainslurper]

wow, and i thought game center was lame. actually, game center is pretty awesome compared to this. remember windows people, if your operating system becomes an uninhabitable mess of CASUAL then i will welcome you to the world of apple

 

[GideonB]

OH DEAR.
That is all.

 

[funguy2121]

Leaked Microsoft Video Reveals Horrible Future for PC Gaming

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An internal Microsoft video showing the company's dark, horrific vision for the future of the "Windows Gaming Experience" has found its way onto YouTube [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBPYdgy35KA&feature=player_embedded]. [Caution: not for the faint of heart.]

That which is seen cannot be unseen, which is a real shame when it comes to things like this video created by Microsoft that details the company's plan for a connected, social, casual gaming experience characterized by bright colors, microtransactions and ceaseless interaction with online "friends." The importance of Avatars, representing the "style, attitude and character" of each person's online identity, is a big point of emphasis, as is the ability to easily search for, find and share new games and media across multiple platforms.

The focus here is clearly on the casual market. The video kicks off with Battlefield 2 [http://www.farmville.com/] by buying him a better gun and then immediately misspells "pwn3d."

I don't even know what to say here. Maybe I'm being overly harsh, or maybe I'm bitter because I'm feeling left out, but if this is what Microsoft means when it talks about taking the PC seriously as a gaming platform, I think I'll just go back to watching television.

via: PC Gamer [http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/20/leaked-microsofts-work-in-progress-vision-of-the-future-of-games-for-windows-live/]


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Nothing caught my attention like the author's addressing the misspelling of "pwn3d." While I do enjoy some internet slang and others may accuse me of nomenclatural nitpicking when I differentiate geeks from nerds, to me "pwn," "epic fail," "TL;DR" and "full of win" represent those within the community who arbitrarily assign their selves a baseless sense of intellectual elitehood based on their perceived ability to win a debate about Star Trek physics and dilithium crystals. They represent those who woefully foretell the death of console gaming or the bleak future of PC gaming. All of which, of course, is pure bullshit.

As long as people like you and me keep playing video games, there will be those among us who go on to create them, and there will continue to be hardcore games. If pornography can withstand the vast army of The Right and romantic comedies can withstand feminism and reason, then hardcore games can survive a push from CEOs and shareholders to expand by reaching out to a larger demographic.

Back to the whole "pwn3d" thing: I don't respect or honor any understood spelling of pwned, or pwn'd, or anything like that. When an internet nerd assumes he's reached some level of cool by intentionally misspelling a word, that's bad enough. When half the nerds on the internet can't spell beyond a fourth grade level, it's worse. When "pwn" joins the dictionary (it won't), I'll respect someone calling another out for "misspelling" it.

No offense intended, and I still love you all.

 

[Cheesus333]

So do I just put the cyanide in my mouth or...?

But really, that was horrible. And shit. And it was also crap.

Does not want. Please.

EDIT:

I already wanna rage quit.

Welcome to the Escapist! You arrived just in time - as the video clearly shows, everything good is dying.

Also in this edit, I worked out what specifically I don't like about this: even more networking with my friends.

Sometimes, I don't want to talk to my friends, or to know what they're doing, or for them to know what I'm doing. Sometimes, I want to play a Goddamn fucking game on my own.

 

[Vladan]

Since probably everything bad (or good? ) about this has already been said...

Did anyone else notice Halo 3 logo in the video at 2:36, among all other games that have been actually released on the PC? A hint?

 

[Master Kuja]

So, aside from BF2, where were all the games in that video?
Jesus, how out of touch are Microsoft in regards to PC gaming these days? This video more or less proves it, besides, they're so far behind it's a joke.

Anyone they could possibly aim GFWL at is already using Steam, and if they build Windows 8 and make it incompatible with Steam (just a hypothetical, in no way would this happen), it'd just result in a fuck massive lawsuit which ends in Gabe swimming in more cash.

MS, you lost the PC gaming crowd, you've pissed us off enough and realised too late, and now you're doing far too little to make up for it. Not only that, but what you ARE doing is insulting and still leaves a foul taste in our mouths anyway, give it up and go back to the platform you actually know.