Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative
by lou1306 on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @06:27AM
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> like Microsoft is doing
I thought it was, you know, game developers and publishers? How many games are actually published by Microsoft, outside of Halo, Minecraft, Age of Empires, and Gears of War?
Re:Microsoft Becomes Sponsor of Open Source Initiative
by tyfon on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @06:50AM
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These are the ones I am talking about.
Halo, GoW and Minecraft have been GAASified. We have to see about Forza 7.
Meanwhile, 1st party games like Horizon Zero Dawn from Sony or Mario vs Rabbids from Nintendo are free of such.
In 3rd party games, all bets are off of course (see Destiny 2 for a good example)
Just what does it take to actually be able to use a new Windows without getting shafted?
My gaming is almost completely moved to the PS4, Switch and Linux, even though neither Sony nor Nintendo are paragons of virtue in any sense, they are smaller companies that depend on happy customers.
Neither of them are shoving the horrible GAAS (Games as a service), that is loot boxes and other shady tactics, into their games like Microsoft is doing. There is no forced online. You can just pop in a disk/cart and play without registering 1000 accounts on the internet. The experience is much better imho than fighting windows.