This is absolutely and completely unacceptable. Why are the major PC gaming journalist not asking questions directly to the CEO of Microsoft? They should be waiting for that motherfucker outside his house asking WTF is going on with Microsoft fucking over their PC customers with this half-assed bullshit. They made a…

Somewhat related to this: I can’t play Killer Instinct from the windows Store because i don’t have the “latest” windows version (it specifically wants 10586). The thing is i have the insider edition of windows 10, so technically i have the latest version. The game is basically windows version locked... because MS.

Guess I better forget about this game because there’s no way in hell I’m buying an XBone

And if only 25% of computers (your guess) were used to play games on that would still be more than there are xbox ones out there... I am not sure what your point is? In terms of PC gaming the vast majority (very nearly the entirety) is done on Windows systems which puts Microsoft in a position where they should be…

The Windows app store is no sort of challenger at all though. Based on Microsoft’s history with PC gaming there is no reason to expect that their app store offerings are ever going to matter. Some shitty xbox ports with “crossplay” where they play better on xbox than PC because of all the self imposed technical…

Unfortunately GFWL did interfere with a lot of games as well, it was a terrible platform.

Launching exclusively on UWP right now is just a bad idea. Microsoft should have known better, since they know better than anyone the state of it, and the limitations it has.

Worse than GFWL as that was only an annoying extra login screen and didn’t actually interfere with the game itself.

Well, for a lot of people “only” being able to play at 50 fps, or not being able to use SLI, or having no improvement over console visuals, is not really an issue.

Hey man, generating keys is a really tough job. They need all the time they can get with that task.

More reasons not to pre-order stuff or buy anything on Day1. I hate it when people are used as Beta testers like this

Lame.

It really is just nothing short of staggering that a company in their position can’t even begin to figure out the market.

Universal Windows Platform is nothing but GfWL all over again. Fortunately it will never harm anything but a handful of Microsoft titles because there is nothing that is going to make me deal with that bullshit again. Anything released exclusive to UWP is an automatic skip.

So does anyone remember how all reviewers were lauding Windows 10 for how great it is? Guess they didn’t bother even opening a Windows Store app. Now it’s time to face the harsh truth - Microsoft has pushed out a steaming pile of unfinished crap. The so-called Anniversary Update has a long way coming. I don’t expect…

Quantum Broken.

Well this sounds like a hot load of bullshit. MS should stick to consoles and fuck right off PC gaming forever, because they’ve proven themselves incapable of playing to the system’s strengths and unwilling to change.

UWP needs to die...

The absolute worst is the fact the UMP prevents the use of SLI and forces Double Buffered V-Sync. It’s unbelievable that they think they can win over PC users with these restrictions. It’s to the point where I think they are actively sabotaging the PC version to make the xbox one look good.

Microsoft looked at the PC market and said “Hey this platform that we’ve been developing the #1 operating system for for the last 25 years, looks like it has the largest install base of any gaming platform. Let’s continually release distribution services that fuck them over.”