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5/22/2013 1:09:25 PM
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Steam, lets bring the PC to the living room
Microsoft, Sorry valve we beat you to it.
Consumers F**k you Microsoft we want steam not you.
Valve: LOL
Microsoft: Dafuq? It's the same type of system as them!
Consumers: But Valve and steam are awesome sause.
That's all im seeing right now, blind Microsoft hate.
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I use Steam on my PC to download PC games and launch them. My PC is in my room. The fact they introduced the "Big Picture" mode isn't an interest to me because my PC weighs 26kg and is twice the size of your average unit, if not more. It's a dedicated system built for personal gaming and entertainment. No-one else is allowed to use it. I use my Xbox to play games with friends, or games I can't get on PC. It's a games console to me, not an entertainment hub. That's what my PC is for. The fact that consoles have always been able to share games (aside from handhelds which would overwrite saves) is something which I had hoped would continue, as it allows people to discover new games without paying full price for them in case they don't like them, such as in a family environment where my brother sticks to CoD and sports games, while I play things like Skyrim, Forza, Halo, GTA, Gears, etc. With the 360, he can easily borrow Gears and play all he wants, without having to use my account. So why, now, does Microsoft want to make it so that this can't happen? Why are they taking the PC DRM approach to a games console?
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Listen im in the same boat as you, I just don't think these plans will stay after launch once they realize it doesn't work. There is a reason the PS4 allows used games and Microsoft isn't going to be outclassed so easily, besides I have downloaded some games on my HDD and can't be shared with people so im hitting that exact problem right now. The issue doesn't directly effect me because all the scenario's mentioned don't involve me (Advantage of no friends or a gamer family) but doesn't mean it doesn't bother me. I had a bunch of games given to me by my brothers mate so I could not play them under the new system, heck I bought Halo 2 fo £7 a couple of months ago, if I had to buy new it would have been £30. The only thing that truely bothers me is how they will do backwards compatibility since Halo 4 is supposed to last consumers until Halo 5, Microsoft can't abandon it.
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It's simply where the industry is evolving to. I's almost guarantee that we'll see an almost identical item from Sony at E3 as well. Adapt and overcome, or put down the controller. Myself? I'm a gamer. It's my hobby, my pastime. It's my baseball/football. I have no problems adapting to this in order to keep my gaming sacrosanct.
