Leaked Microsoft Video Reveals Horrible Future for PC Gaming
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I never said I didn't understand your train of thought, what I don't agree with is your condemning of an entire demographic of gamers because someone made a product directed at them. If you don't like the product, then don't buy it, but don't be disrespectful to people for the hobbies that they enjoy. I'm sure lots of people think blowing $60 on a AAA game is ludicrous crap.Mazty said:
I think this may have over-estimated the casual markets ability to last, and core gamers, as we're seeing from the (frankly deserved) flak it's getting in the comments. Casual gamers will get bored (I think anyway), and the core will just be disgusted by it.
Bravo microsoft
Bravo microsoft
Whenever this atrocious horror of a program gets released, it will download itself as a hidden update to all Windows systems, automatically detect all your games, move their folders and make them inaccessible from any other program or shortcut. You just KNOW it's gonna happen.
Oh, plus an unremovable Firefox toolbar.
Oh, plus an unremovable Firefox toolbar.
Well, good point. I guess it didn't register since I would never play that kind of game. I have a feeling Microsawft isn't interested in the games I play. And I have a feeling that GFWL is going to have as much impact on the world as Zune.Bruno Correia said:
I died inside a little.
PC gaming is taking its final breaths, about to be swept under the rug by people more concerned with pointless passtimes that qualify a time sink at best, an addiction at worst.
I fail to see why one would supply the demand when the demand calls for a supply of drivel. Gamers change drastically over time. It's a fact, but it's propagated by what we're exposed to. I fell in love with RPGs because I was exposed to neoPets (who remembers that?) first. I followed an ad for AdventureQuest (who remembers THAT?) and eventually found myself playing Baldur's Gate. The best path I can see a love of farmville developing is a desire to flaunt the IQ score you pay $10 a day for or a tampon fetish.
Note this: Just as all Xbox games seem to require being connected to Xbox live, so to will all PC games to Windows Live. PC games will be controlled by Microsoft's agenda and thus diminish in number. PCs already have the problem of addictive casual games, like tablets come with pre-installed, why does Microsoft feel the need to force these to dominate?
Profit nothing! In a socialist state we would have no need for profit and innovation would be driven simply by will to create!
...Comerade.
PC gaming is taking its final breaths, about to be swept under the rug by people more concerned with pointless passtimes that qualify a time sink at best, an addiction at worst.
I fail to see why one would supply the demand when the demand calls for a supply of drivel. Gamers change drastically over time. It's a fact, but it's propagated by what we're exposed to. I fell in love with RPGs because I was exposed to neoPets (who remembers that?) first. I followed an ad for AdventureQuest (who remembers THAT?) and eventually found myself playing Baldur's Gate. The best path I can see a love of farmville developing is a desire to flaunt the IQ score you pay $10 a day for or a tampon fetish.
Note this: Just as all Xbox games seem to require being connected to Xbox live, so to will all PC games to Windows Live. PC games will be controlled by Microsoft's agenda and thus diminish in number. PCs already have the problem of addictive casual games, like tablets come with pre-installed, why does Microsoft feel the need to force these to dominate?
Profit nothing! In a socialist state we would have no need for profit and innovation would be driven simply by will to create!
...Comerade.
Hehe, PC fans can eat their hearts out. So much for the wii dragging down the consoles and making them less of gaming machines. Looks like the shit is hitting ALL the fans.
Did that video remind anyone of Inception? An avatar controlling an avatar within a game who is gaming... levels upon levels people.
I suppose the point here is that MS wants to expand the horizon of gaming to include the giant elephant in the room. Honestly, I'm completely surprised that no other site has unseated Facebook as the internet juggernaut it still is after these years. While I've known MS to just basically rip off a good idea and slap their logo on it and change a few words, I wouldn't entirely be surprised if MS developed their own version of Facebook just for the WGX, but that doesn't really make it a good idea.
While microtransactions are a key point in the gaming economy, MS doesn't seem to do too bad already with XBL. Pretty sure that Call of Duty has proved that point in the last two or three years with people spending millions of dollars to download map packs, so for MS to want to expand on this does make sense from a business standpoint. Won't be too long for government to come to the door with their hands out looking for taxes to be imposed on these microtransactions in the future, if they aren't already trying to do it now.
I really wonder how long it will be before the changes we saw in this video become reality. As long as they don't slap it together at the last minute and throw it out there, it could stand a chance of making GWL what it should have been.
I suppose the point here is that MS wants to expand the horizon of gaming to include the giant elephant in the room. Honestly, I'm completely surprised that no other site has unseated Facebook as the internet juggernaut it still is after these years. While I've known MS to just basically rip off a good idea and slap their logo on it and change a few words, I wouldn't entirely be surprised if MS developed their own version of Facebook just for the WGX, but that doesn't really make it a good idea.
While microtransactions are a key point in the gaming economy, MS doesn't seem to do too bad already with XBL. Pretty sure that Call of Duty has proved that point in the last two or three years with people spending millions of dollars to download map packs, so for MS to want to expand on this does make sense from a business standpoint. Won't be too long for government to come to the door with their hands out looking for taxes to be imposed on these microtransactions in the future, if they aren't already trying to do it now.
I really wonder how long it will be before the changes we saw in this video become reality. As long as they don't slap it together at the last minute and throw it out there, it could stand a chance of making GWL what it should have been.
MY EYES, THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING
but really, it looks like microsoft is trying to appeal to the 'casual' audience...
again......
Also, p0wned? seriously?
but really, it looks like microsoft is trying to appeal to the 'casual' audience...
again......
Also, p0wned? seriously?