You Can't Play CoD: IW's Windows 10 Version With Other PC Versions
- Thread starter Steven Bogos
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Well! It's a good thing Infinite Warfare isn't dealing with any other controversy or negative publicity, then...
UWP is really, really scary. MS is attempting to bring the iPhone/Play Store walled-garden system onto PC so they can sell software and take their 30% cut. It is accepted on smartphones for whatever reason, and on console, Sony and MS have their hardware locked down, and that we don't argue with. But PC has always been an open platform. Any PC user can and should be able to source their software from any developer without having to go thru Microsoft.
UWP however, and this game is the ultimate example, is the antithesis of that. MS are trying to take over software distribution on Windows, probably because they might just able to. By being the sole source of such software distribution, they want to tie people into their ecosystem. The fact that there are two different PC versions is disgraceful beyond my ability to express in words. It's a repugnant atrocity and a blight on PC gaming the likes of which I haven't seen for years.
They took away our ability to host our own servers, in the interest of letting MS/Sony control all multiplayer interactions on their platforms, unlike CoD4 where players could run their own dedicated servers. Now it goes further, the same game having TWO incompatible walled gardens. Not only no dedicated servers, but two sets of publisher run ones, controlling the lifecycle and interactions of the game and splitting the audience in two: those locked into Microsoft's new walled-garden and everyone else.
This is a horrible development whose like I have never seen before on PC. To call it a travesty doesn't do it enough justice. I beseech PC gamers to avoid UWP/Windows 10 store version like the plague that it is, if not boycott the game entirely. Do NOT give them your money and allow this to continue in the future.
UWP however, and this game is the ultimate example, is the antithesis of that. MS are trying to take over software distribution on Windows, probably because they might just able to. By being the sole source of such software distribution, they want to tie people into their ecosystem. The fact that there are two different PC versions is disgraceful beyond my ability to express in words. It's a repugnant atrocity and a blight on PC gaming the likes of which I haven't seen for years.
They took away our ability to host our own servers, in the interest of letting MS/Sony control all multiplayer interactions on their platforms, unlike CoD4 where players could run their own dedicated servers. Now it goes further, the same game having TWO incompatible walled gardens. Not only no dedicated servers, but two sets of publisher run ones, controlling the lifecycle and interactions of the game and splitting the audience in two: those locked into Microsoft's new walled-garden and everyone else.
This is a horrible development whose like I have never seen before on PC. To call it a travesty doesn't do it enough justice. I beseech PC gamers to avoid UWP/Windows 10 store version like the plague that it is, if not boycott the game entirely. Do NOT give them your money and allow this to continue in the future.
No it doesn't, you bought a 1070, Gears 4 just happened to happen for you. You dealt with the Windows store in the optimal way, you gave it no money but got stuff out of it, feel sorry for the poor buggers who paid to set up accounts.Denamic said: