What direction should Microsoft be taking given recent announcements?
"The Singapore-based indie games publisher Spiral Up Games and Qingdao/Shandong-based (China) indie games developer Aluba Studio, today announced with great happiness and excitement that their hacking adventure "Cyber Manhunt 2: New World" is coming to PC via Steam EA on May 10th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"The Berlin-based (Germany) indie games developer Tarock Interactive today announced with great delight and happiness that their open-world survival/crafting game "Lost Legions", is now currenly in development for PC." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
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GFWL sucks so bad; I hate it. Good riddance.
I don't know.
But I do know I am pissed that I have about a dozen games that will probably not work just because Microsoft doesn't want to support there old titles. Even though there whole thing is cloud and connected.
If I was a big publisher or a user I would think twice before signing up for any services for my games. Because Microsoft are not supporting or helping any of the companies or users who used GFWL fix or enable there existing titles.
This is a huge indicator to me about how much you should trust Microsoft for future support of anything that requires a server.
Edited to note: I have GWFL games that I bought less than a year ago that will stop working. It's not just "old" games.
I cannot believe I actually clicked on that link.
Microsoft is not going anywhere.
Microsoft dominates PC OS market
For some reason they think they can dominate all electronic software/hardware :
Xbox
Bing
Windows Phone
GFWL
Surface
They will get rid of it and move the 1st party games to the Windows 8 App Store.
Calling it now!