[Update] Epic’s Tim Sweeney Predicts Dystopian Gaming Future In Which Microsoft Crushes Steam

Microsoft recognizes it has work to do, though it maintains that UWP is an open platform

[TheCommentator]

I don't know if all this talk is doing any good but keeping the possibilities for foul play in the spotlight certainly couldn't hurt. I just think Sweeny looks way too "tinfoil hat" with all of these "possibilities" of a tyrannical MS.

[uth11]

It's not like it's unjustified though, MS has killed competitors in the past in just the ways he predicts, and has tried to take take control of everything, especially the web. This is why there are so many anti-Microsoft people around.

Personally I don't think MS has the power to get away with it anymore.

[Christopher]

Just look at iTunes to see what he's scared of. You've got a system set up that prevents anyone from making money without giving a good lump sum of it to iTunes. Spotify is even having their app removed by trying to get people to sign up for accounts on PC, where they get all the money, as opposed to forcing people to sign up on iTunes.

The closed store market has some very shady sides to it. I hope people keep questioning these things so we don't see it become the norm. I think the issue with Steam and the like is also two-fold, UWP isn't really easy to update when you have a library of hundreds of thousands of games relying on old standards and you have to develop an app to support all those and keep them UWP-capable...

[nunley33]

Sweeney makes good points that has a solid basis for them. I wouldn't put it past Microsoft for them to use Windows 10 to hurt your steam client and make it not work or not well at all purposely.

[morganfell]

Personally I do not wish to wait until MS is in a position to simply flip a switch and then we must rely on their good graces not to do so. Particularly when they have shown they are willing in the past and it is in their best financial interests to do so. What kind of shortsighted person lets a megalithic corporation reach that threshold?

Edit: uth11 posted this a few days ago:

http://www.ecis.eu/document...

[Utalkin2me]

@Mixdup

I can see why you chose that name.

[Christopher]

***What makes them different than any other company?***

Very little. And that's the scary thing.

[indysurfn]

Mixdup.....I hate to say this but. Daymmm your a fool.

[Antifan]

Good way to kill your company.
Gamers will just go where ever Valve will go (Linux?)

[blackout]

That cool Microsoft co owns Linux to. Seems as if Microsoft has this whole thing ON LOOOOOOOOOOCK.

[morganfell]

No. They built their own linux distribution but they do not own linux.

[sAVAge_bEaST]

How much do you astro.turfers. Get Paid to TrooLLLLllluszzzz?

[s45gr32]

More doom and gloom.

[marioJP87]

Not with the way Windows store has been providing games.

[Tzuno]

Relax, they will make everything possible to reach their goal, enjoy gaming as it is if you can.

[FreddyFazbear]

I have not read the article but judging from the title. Seriously? Thats like saying MS will crush sony and nintendo on the console front or ms mobile phone will crush android and apple. Maybe in ms and their fans dream. Or maybe in a different planet or dimension. Do you guys actually think gabe newell will give his steam to ms on a silver platter??

[MCTJim]

and most of us PC gamers just enjoy our games no matter what online store we buy from.

[lastking95]

Steam seem like the better value but i see many gamers on here say they're switching to w10 do to all the xbox exclusives coming to it. Unless they were lying and just ps4 fanboys trying to down xbox.

[EmperorRosko]

So Microsoft are bad for trying to sell stuff through their own store, but Steam are great because...they do the same thing? PC gaming needs to get off that fat fucks dick and start realising that Steam has no competition so they can charge what the fuck like like and they take a nice 30% slice off the top too. Steam has started to bump it's prices which now AAA titles start at £39.99, when not long ago they were £29.99 and a lot of the time has a 10% pre order bonus discount.

People need to wake the fuck up and realise that Steam (although a great platform) is slowly filling up with bullshit early access games, little crappy homebrew crap all over the store front, and Gabe is hiking the prices up because he is a greedy fat fuck sitting on a platform that no one dare speak a bad word about. It's a monopoly and he knows it.