Solidstate89
Gawd
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The problem is that now they can't charge $50 for a game when you can download 50 games for the same price on the marketplace. This is why they are haters.
And yet all of those games are RESTRICTED to running in the Metro interface and utilizing the WinRT set of APIs.
They literally do not fucking compete with eachother. Steam, Origin, Impulse, whatever-the-fuck-blizzard uses all sell and compete against eachother for selling games that are programmed in C++ and use the Win32 API calls. They are far more advanced than any game that will be released in the Metro store can or will ever be.
There is no overlap. You won't be purchasing Binding of Isaac in the Microsoft store. You won't be getting Metro 2033, or Skyrim or any other desktop Windows game because they literally can not be developed using just the WinRT APIs. The Microsoft store is good for one thing, and that's tablets.
And I don't see Valve or Blizzard bitching about the fact that Apple has a near Monopoly in the tablet space that they can't make money off of because they can't have people buy directly form them - so why does Microsoft get all this vitriol? The sheer hypocrisy and nonsensical nature of all this "criticism" is utterly laughable.