What direction should Microsoft be taking given recent announcements?
"The Barcelona-based (Spain) indie games publisher JanduSoft and indie games developer Juan-Mod, are today very glad and proud to announce that their 3D arcade action-platformer "Teared", is now available for PC (via Steam) and consoles (PS5, PS4, and the Nintendo Switch) via digital stores." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Laundry, cleaning and classic arcade games all in glorious virtual reality
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord brings back the classic experience with revamped graphics and other improvements.
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!