Microsoft Game Studios: "We Need to Step up" PC Gaming Efforts

Microsoft,

Stop telling us how much you love PC gaming and haven't done what you should have. Everyone who plays games on their PC knows you haven't supported it. We all also are aware that Steam is doing what you wish you'd have the vision to. Just like Apple's done with the iPad, the iPod, and the iPhone what you wished you had done with the tabletPC's, Zune, and the Windows CE phones. Or what Google did to ad and search revenue models. Or what Nintendo did with console gaming.

We get it. You don't have a longterm vision of a replacement for OS's for computers that are increasingly irrelevant and Office software to go with said computers. You want to find something to give you a Nabisco for your RJR now diminishing industry.

Thing is... you let PC gaming rot. We all saw it. Remember when you said, "No Gears of War 2 for PC gamers?" Or when you said, "We don't need Ensemble anymore because they can't make great console games, just PC games?" Or perhaps when you said the same of FASA? Or the Flight Simulator team? What about the Microsoft Golf/Links team? How about when you told us the successor to Max Payne series that was developed for PC wasn't "appropriate" for the PC gamer because gamers wanted to "relax on their couch as they played?" What about assigning proper resources to porting your gaming crown jewels, Halo 1 and 2? Or ports of any other Halo game?

See, that's when we knew you didn't care. Of course, the shoddy shape of the GfWL app doesn't leave much doubt, now does it?

If you want gamers to believe you, announce Gears of War 2 (and 3), Halo 3, ODST, and Halo Wars for PC. Then release Alan Wake on PC as a surprise. Then we'll think you MIGHT be serious.

Ofcourse Microsoft loves PC Gaming. See even Bill Gates says so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN0K58EfJSg

I liked having games that allowed me to sign in and get achievements from the Games for Windows Live system.

I'd like this as an option only.

The Games for Windows Live Client is a HORRIBLY terrible setup piece of software that should cease to exist.

PC gamers have a good thing going on with Steam. If MS *really* wants to invest in PC gaming they should get with the Valve guys and ensure they have everything they need to keep making Steam the best platform it can be. What PC gamers DO NOT need is fragmentation in the form of Steam vs. GFWL.

It's Microsoft's management they need to convince to let them do more with the PC, not us.

How about FUCK YOU MICROSOFT?

If you really gave a shit we'd be playing Links 2010 RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

And you wouldn't have shut down Ensemble, FASA etc. You're like EA, except you don't even release any fucking games!

You've ruined perfectly good games with GFWL. You haven't even made some SHITTY ports of Halo 3, Halo Wars etc for christs sake.

Just who do you think you are kidding?

AHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHA Microsoft you people are hilarious.

1. First you say you want to invest in PC gaming, now,

2. Then you go and say, hardly anyone plays fps on PCs ROFL
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/103627-Kinect-Man-Says-Hardly-Anyone-Plays-PC-Shooters-Anymore.

On a side note, what advances has PC gaming made since the launch of the new consoles?
There is that Direct X11 and tessellation Bullshit everyone has been raving about, is the biggest load of shit I have ever seen!

Don't fall for the hype people buy smart,don;t fall for the direct X11 bullshit,it's nothing more than a marketing gimmick.

Unless, Microsoft can bring more things to Direct X(rather than just stupid tessellation bullshit), fuck upgrading.

The only time ms will do anything good for pc gaming is if another operating system looks like it's going to take the crown of "best gaming OS". with steam ported to mac it might be a start but the shitty video cards will probably make that go nowhere. there's been a lot of work on implementing dx11 in linux so *maybe* in 5-10 years that will go somewhere but i wouldn't hold my breath. There really isn't any reason otherwise for MS to do anything other than what they have been doing, it's not like getting into windows gaming will be some massive cash cow for them.

Microsoft pays a guy who pretends to do stuff to advance gaming on the PC?

So long as such a job position still exists, there is no such thing as an economic downturn.

They said the exact same thing when the original Xbox sales started to decline. They didn't do anything for the PC after that, I'm sure they won't now either.

God, MicroSoft is like the bi-polar 18-year old girlfriend of PC gaming, always hanging out with dudes and angry when I ask what they mean to her

And you, see, there's this nice stable girl over at Valve, and I know she's dedicated to me. I think I'd really just like her attention.

It's not you, it's me. But MicroSoft, I don't think this relationship is really healthy for us anymore. Have a nice life.

Oh and to beat the life out of this analogy, I'll take PC's cute but underestimated indie girls over console's sorority cadres.

What would happen if Microsoft released a gaming only operating system?

Maybe Valve/Steam should release a "gaming" OS?

Are either of these good ideas for the PC?

Yeah, sure thing MS. First you talk of completely removing OpenGL from Vista forward, now you're going to "step up"? I've had enough of the lies and spin; lets see them actually DO something for a change.

Making shitty ports to PC from console does NOT count.

Microsoft- anyway I can convince you to keep champoning the Xbox? Piracy is so bad and nobody plays PC games. Consoles have been successful for you and GFWL is awesome on Xbox I think you should stay there. ;)

I dont especially like this console era but not having to upgrade my rig every 6month is nice (I almost never touch my console but since pc games are ports from console...)

I believe them, Games For Windows was the biggest push for the platform ever, nobody can forget how much that has done. /s

Dave Luehmann might want to have MicroSoft start renewing their efforts towards the PC by having this guy shut his clueless piehole: Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda: "hardly anyone" plays FPS on PCs anymore.

Link: http://www.vg247.com/2010/09/20/kudo-hardly-anyone-plays-first-person-shooters-on-the-pc-any-more/

That'd be a great start...

I don't care about your shitty console ports anymore. Just please...please don't insult me with hipocrisy and bald-faced lies like this again.

I like the headline "We Need to Step up" PC Gaming Efforts"... although he says afterwords... "We are putting some real investment and big IPs behind the Windows platform,".... this includes the PC port of Fable 3.

So essentially they are looking at PC Gaming as a second class gaming platform since it's a port 'from' the console which it was originally intended for.

Soon the big corporatrion will learn the ways of the 90, get over the console craze , it's PC that's coming back , and DNF , Crysis 2 , Doom4 leads the way.

Focus on PC platform = FUCK with it

No thanks

just keep doing what ur doing

there's pc devs out there, no need for ms-published titles.

MSFT used to have one of my most favorite company logo splashes with the inviting music and their reveal of the company name through the atmosphere. Much like Sierra or Blizzard's.

You guys are all dreaming about what Microsoft says, I would like Halo 3 or I want Fabel 3. Truth is Microsoft doesnt give a rats ass about PC games anymore, look at them Since the Xbox just come out and you will see they cared less and less about the PC ,before that we got great games now Crap with GFWL. They do this every six months put an article in the Press saying "we still care and We havent forgot about you guys because if it wasnt for PC and PC gamers we wouldnt be the Billionaires we are now" then after this artice they will forget again till some new Xbox 360 game gets mentioned and lo and behold no PC mention of it, well back in the Press again and saying "we still care and We havent forgot about you guys because if it wasnt for PC and PC gamers we wouldnt be the Billionaires we are now" then two days later someone mentions about "what are we going to do with the PC market" the rep replys " PC? oh you mean my Penis Cream, no just throw it away and leave me alone so I can play my Xbox 360 with Kinect, Wow this is going to sell like crazy. weee look at me flail playing Dance Central and looking like im having a seizure and playing with my little baby tiger in Kinectimals. Give me a freaking Break Microsoft. Put up or Shut up.

Bring Halo 3 , ODST and Reach to PC and pump up the graphics.

LIES!

It seems someone from MS has said this once or twice a year for the past few years... but they still aren't really doing anything about it.

Less words more action plzkthx. :)

Note that their "huge PC game initiative" consists of two franchises wrenched away from studios that Microsoft closed down (Microsoft Flight and AoE Online), and a game with a big history on XBox, led by a developer known for hatimg the PC platform (Fable 3, and they can't even commit to a release quarter, let alone a release date). And all of these are, at their hearts, efforts to market GFWL, as they all require GFWL. Nothing original, nothing new, and little recognition of what true PC gamers are actually seeking (hint: it's not cheevos).

Actions speak louder than words, Microsoft.

To Microsoft with love. "No shit Sherlock!"

I think MS kind of waited too long, and gave too many AAA titles to XBOX-only. They've really pissed off (on?) PC gamers the world over. Admitting they have a problem is a good first step (if long overdue), but most people are tired of hearing excuses and PR bullshit. The only way they can fix their broken relationship with PC gamers is to just put their money where their mouth is and bend over backwards to get developers to make games for them.

I'm willing to maybe forgive them because of the unmitigated stumble/ failure that was Vista -- but now that they have the generally applauded Windows 7, it's time to build on it with some good apps. Apple is stomping all over them with the AppStore -- I know it's for a different platform, but give Apple some time and they'll bring all 8 million games (at that point) to their desktop and in one fell swoop have more games and content than 25 years of Microsoft combined. It just seems to me that Microsoft is letting themselves get left in the dust when it comes to content and innovation.

I don't think it would be a stretch to say that there is some deep incompetence at the executive level at Microsoft at the moment. I reserve some hope for them because, well, it's either that or the world turns to Apple (just thinking about such a world makes the bile rise in my throat).

Hahahahahahahahaha

Fuck that was funny wasn't it.

What have they done for PC gaming in recent times? Released Games for Windows Life ?

The only way this will happen is if they "close" the platform like xbox and control every aspect of it (like patching, dlc, pricing and everything else). I don't want that, if I wanted that I'd be playing xbox games.

I think history will repeat itself; nothing worthwhile will come out of this.

the SECOND I saw this headline, I said outloud "Fuck you!"
They don't care. They say they do, but they don't. They cannibalize the PC market to get sales for their XBox360 division, which makes perfect sense and I understand, but don't shovel shit in my mouth and call it sugar.

Microsoft, you have A LONG way to go before you convince this gamer you care about the PC market.

if you want our trust, release alan wake, halo 3-reach, GOW2-3 and um dead rising on pc. make em GFWL exclusive for all I care, just fucking do it

then we will talk

I haven't seen this much lip service since Paris Hilton's home video.

Microsoft needs to just put up and shut up if they want to regain ground in PC gaming. We've heard this BS from them before.

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I CALL FUCKING BULLSHIT ON MICROSOFT!!!

lol.

for fuck's sake, they've literally said this 5 times in the past decade. just eat a dick MS.

How about releasing the Halo series on pc?