“How many times do we have to teach you this lesson old man?”
Make Games For Windows Live again, but vibe code it, I’m sure this time it’ll work.
Why do I hear singing, and what are those ships on the horizon? I can’t seem to make out their flags, they all just look black to me.
You will pirate Microsoft games because they are not on Steam
In pirate Microsoft games because they are Microsoft games.
We are not the same
Meanwhile I’m the lazy one who stays in port and sees the games on the horizon but is not interested enough to set sails.
Yeah honestly, do they have anything worse pirating right now?
There isn’t even a need to, the games are garbage
Good luck doing that for the latest MSFS. That shit streams it’s assets instead from cloud storage instead of storing them on local media/storage making for as glorious customer experience as it sounds
“May” but reading the article, unlikely.
Microslop pulling from Steam is likely to effectively kill or close to kill their gaming division. They’ve already trained their players to be on PC with game pass and if those players want to own one of those games they’re most likely going to buy it on Steam.
Not sure another full XBox console release is going to go well for them anyhow.
Looking at Xbox strategy I think it’s AI powered. They don’t make any decisions, just copy paste information to AI and respond with whatever AI output is.
Playing Campaign evolved, so many things read like AI usage. The character animations and cutscenes move in a way I’ve only seen in AI video. The voice acting could just be shit direction with stilted delivery, but the lines that weren’t there originally read like someone’s idea of “Millennial” writing. Quips everywhere. Could just be a variant of Hanlon’s Razor.
Dude I had no notion that it would be AI, in fact figured they would just reuse voice lines, but I saw an actual cut scene that looked like Sgt Johnson was an animatronic stuck in a theme park ride.
The same character who’s voice acting was iconic before…
So where does Xbox make money? It’s not the hardware. It’s the games. Seems like they should stop developing a “store” and a “platform” and just adopt Steam. I don’t think it runs any version of windows underneath. Refocus efforts in improving Proton, develop great games, offer them on Steam. My Steamdeck was the best mobile experience I ever had for some really great games that also worked on windows. If I could install SteamOS on my Series X, that would be a killer Steam Machine.
Just decided to do post-posting research and it does run a modified NT kernel, but still.
imho depending on the success of shit like the steam deck and machine, we could see the functional death of console gaming (as it exists now) within the next decade or two. sony and MS are behaving as though the console market is a private garden they can suddenly start building walls around.
Bye Felicia!
