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Microsoft Game Studios: "We Need to Step up" PC Gaming Efforts
by Alice O'Connor, Sep 24, 2010 6:01am PDTMicrosoft Games Studios' general manager Dave Luehmann has addressed criticisms of Microsoft's commitment to PC gaming in an interview with MCV, saying that "It is our job to lead the way on PC" but conceding "we need to step up."
"There's been a fair bit of criticism aimed at Microsoft that we were spending a lot of our focus on console, and we need to be putting resources behind PC as well," Luehmann said. "Other companies should look to Microsoft for leadership, but I'm not sure they do. It is our job to lead the way on PC. And in some ways we are doing that and in other ways we are not. So we need to step up."
"We are putting some real investment and big IPs behind the Windows platform," he insists, including the PC port of Fable 3 as well as recently-announced Microsoft Flight and free-to-play Age of Empires Online. "However we are not going to stop there."
While Luehmann's sentiments are welcome, it's difficult to feel reassured when one of the three games he mentioned, Fable 3, was delayed indefinitely on PC only last month. MS promised news on its release date "soon" but this has still yet to arrive.
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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.
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