Two days ago, we informed you about Microsoft’s plans to release every future first-party game on Windows 10 (alongside Xbox One). Well, that seemed too good to be true. Microsoft stealth edited its blogpost and now claims that only the games that were shown onstage at E3 2016 will be coming to Windows 10 (thanks to Xbox Play Anywhere).
This is what Microsoft claimed two days ago:
“Every new title published from Microsoft Studios will support Xbox Play Anywhere and will be easily accessible in the Windows Store.”
And here is what the new edited message looks like:
“Every new title published from Microsoft Studios that we showed onstage at E3 this year will support Xbox Play Anywhere and will be easily accessible in the Windows Store.”
In other words, Microsoft has backtracked on its previous statement about all future Microsoft-published games featuring Xbox Play Anywhere and coming to Windows 10.
This obviously means that future Xbox One exclusives – like Halo 6 – may not come to Windows 10.
Whether this is an attempt at damage control or not remains to be seen!
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More BS from M$ ehh standard.
As always
For crying out loud Microsoft, JUST MAKE UP YOUR DAMN MIND ALREADY!
like a woman on period.
wow f%$k you you too microsoft glad I didnt buy xbox, ps4 and pc for the win
Same combo lol GF got me a ps4 for our 3 year anniversary so i can play Bloodborne, KH3 and FF15.
oh so you’re a fifa guy, great.
Final Fantasy 15 lol i hate sports games
my bad, hahaha
Good choice man
I thought microsoft started strong at 2016 e3 merging xbox with windows 10 I thought its cool and all and now this :I ohh microsoft go f%$k yourself
Sounds like Microsoft really isn’t sure about their own direction and vision?
whatever, even if the all games were coming out, they would all be on MS store, so nothing lost there
I like how my last comment was never put up, why does that happen? i editied out 1 curse i typed and my comment still wasnt approved?
Haha sweet console peasant tears must’ve made them change their mind xD
I can almost promise it was the console rage that made them backtrack for damage control. MS has no spine
MS does not care what their consumers say. They care about where they can make the most money. This entire thing is a rather common market scheme. Give people a taste of what they could have, and they want more, because they’ve never had it before. What the consumer says makes no difference to MS.
That makes no sense. “Give people a taste of what they could have”. So what’s that exactly? What’s this huge title in the MS studio that we as pc gamers absolutely MUST have and should plan our future system upgrades around?
… please don’t say Halo…… please don’t say Halo….
Halo!
Besides, when has Microsoft ever made sense?
Windows 10 was (is) their contingency plan in case the One S & Scorpio didn’t turn things around for the Xbox Division the way they hoped they would. It seems they were fortunate though; E3 reception must have been positive enough that they now once again feel confident enough to abandon their “hard-cast” Windows 10 promises in favour of (slowly) returning to flimsy (at best) “we care about PC Gamers” statements.
If I’m correct, Microsoft’s interest in Windows 10 & UWP will now begin dwindling again, & will continue to until their next Xbox flunks (the Scorpio, or its successor, or whichever will come next after that), at which point they’ll return to UWP with even more restrictions, if they don’t go for launching an even worse service entirely once more.
I mean, they obviously failed to learn much of anything from their failed Games for Windows LIVE service, no matter how much they tried to force that thing onto us.
In other words, once the Scorpio begins losing traction to the PS4 Neo, I’m expecting an immediate resurgence in Microsoft’s “commitment” to the Windows 10 UWP Store.
I want all of their action adventure, fps, and action rpg games(the genres that i play) on pc. I dont care about forza and KI but i dont want gears of war to be come again console only game or the next crackdown game to not coem to pc
That has nothing to do with what I said. They’re giving PC gamers a few games that would’ve been xbox exclusives so that some PC gamers (NOT ALL) will keep asking for more and more. And I will never use Halo as a point. I absolutely hate Halo. Its a marketing tactic. Like giving out the first mission of a game for free. If that one mission is good, some people will buy the full game, even if the rest of the game is trash.
I dont think ms has anyone to put them in touch with reality just a bunch of corporate suits.
it can not be console fanobuy rage. Microsoft knows that by releasing rheir games on pc they can make more money because we pc gamers will never buy a console to play them. However cant wait for Gears of war 4, recore,scalebound, we happy few,Crackdown 3 dead rising 4. Microsoft will see how well these games wils sell on pc and then they willl decide what they willd o based on sales not on rage from 10 years old console fanboyss. MS said that Kiler instick did well on pc about a month ago, remeber?
You have no idea eric in this comment section is getting major butthurt
It must hurt a lot to not feel special anymore to mama microsoft.
Holy crap, that’s rich.
Huehuehuehuehuehue
Oh well i just cared about FH3 anyways ;). Still it’s nice to have more games to play with,
same , and its about time
Not getting my money until they start making new games available on Steam also.
too good to be true, fking microsht
Fake promises as always, probably because of the outrage from the xbox fanboy community
HVD isn’t even a fanboy, he’s damn stupid kid and a damn sht troll
speaking of xbox fanboys….wheres HVD on this one?
I dont know about him but that eric dude is getting major butthurt in this comment section.
Now where is that talking Amiga 4000 computer who loves windows 10.
Dont forget our resident xboxone fanboy hvd
amiga 4000 and hvd are most likely the same person
wouldnt surprise me a bit
Once they get the windows 10 market share they want they will simply abandon pc gaming again. Microsoft is so predictable.
*Once they get that Xbox market lead back that they so desperately crave, they will simply abandon PC Gaming once more (except for the annual “oh yeah, we care about PC Gaming” statement, of course). Oh Microshit, why you so predictable?
its all about getting xbox one exclusives on pc so they can make money off of you guys and you know you will but the forzas and halos thats what they want.
They will never do, they got lucky with x360 because sony shot themselves in the foot with ps3.
Yeah, that massive one year release window difference gave them a massive boost. That, & their underhanded subsequent tactics, like paying for Call of Duty exclusivity, the warranty-less Red Ring of Death, etc.
But hey, Microsoft will dream, you know 😛
Thats the plan 😀
Nah, it seems blatantly obvious we’ll still get all their games on PC as well. Anyone who can’t see that by now (or months ago, really) is actively lying to themselves, or maybe dumb enough to buy into every PR line.
They’re just saying this for now to keep the console-only folk happy enough, under the impression that at least their precious Halo will stay exclusive.
Yea, I think what the change is implying is that they don’t want to go ahead and say that every new MS published game is gonna be Play Anywhere. They probably want to test it out with these games and go from there. I don’t think this means that the plan has changed from releasing all the new MS published Xbox games on PC.
It all comes down to next year’s “Halo: Master Chief “Redux” Collection” for the Xbox Scorpio, featuring the upcoming Halo 3 Anniversary cut, if not 2018’s Halo 6, it would seem.
If either one of those actually comes to Windows 10’s UWP Store either at launch, or shortly after (a few months max), then their original claims & agenda are in fact intact. If not, then it was most likely all bullsh*t to begin with, or they were pressured into recanting by the Xbox kiddies.
i want sunset overdrive it is the only one that looks fun.
I thought u durka durkas were more into child molesting simulators, u know the kind u find in japan.
They do this whenever power is given to them on a platter. The fans will eventually learn in time or be burned by them severely.
Still don’t care about console trash.
PFFF… AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Microsoft in a nutshell.
No, I will not tolerate such a change !
Give me all the microsoft productions !
Finally some good articles.
I’ve found it to not having enough sh!tting on M$ and being pro consumer.
( ?° ?? ?°)
It’s a fact that MS is shady, pointing that out is good for readers and a step into the right direction, on the other hand, making fun of people for not liking anti consumer moves/articles/businesses is just sad specially when they are articles that do all sorts of anti consumer hype bulls**t stuff just around the corner.
You seriously need to lighten up.
You need a spank 😀
Naughty boy, to the corner with you!
:))
MS showing their true colours once again. Who believed them this time around?
OH BUT WE CARE ABOUT PC GAMING, DON’T CHA KNOW!
Someone put the kettle on.
yea so they can make money off of pc gamers and that supports xbox one and yes as i keep saying when you buy an exclisove like halo or forza you HAVE NO CHOICE but to buy the digital xbox one version so that meas you are supporting xbox one .
welcome back resident troll
the truth is a troll
The truth is distorted by trolls like you.
the truth is facts and fact #1 you have to buy the xbox one digital version so you have to buy a xbox one game from the win store to play it on pc.fact #2 when you buy a xbox one exclusive you support xbox one.
this isnt hard to understand the facts and truth right there.
Good to know we’re supporting Xbone. It needs all the support it can get!
It’s basically a loss making department of Microsoft in comparison to the superiority of the PS4 and PC
This doesn’t bother me at all. The only Xbone exclusive that was even mildly interesting to me was Sunset Overdrive. It’s sad that after so long, Xbox doesn’t really have any exclusives aside from Halo that people want to play.
Damn consoles, you’re the ruin of videogames
this is why i return back to windows 7,Microsoft is a joke and cant be trusted.
Lol, where are you Windows 10/Store defender… July 29th slowly approaching.
THEY DIDNT BACKTRACK. They changed it because some idiots from reddit and other places were entitled and were making a stink that all other xb1 exclusives so far werent gonna be added. people thought this meant sunset over drive, master chief collection etc would be released.
I’m sure that’s exactly what the PR damage control statement will say; “To be clear….. we didn’t mean what we originally said, so this was just us clarifying our previous position” & idiots like you will actually believe it.
“Every new title published from Microsoft Studios will support Xbox Play Anywhere and will be easily accessible in the Windows Store.”
“Every new -” future tense, not current tense, not past tense, future tense. If Reddit can’t speak English, that’s their own problem, but this has nothing to do with a bunch of fringe groups misunderstanding what was very clearly communicated.
If they wanted to clarify a misunderstanding, even if that clarification was in service to a bunch of halfwits, they’d have simply rephrased it to;
“Every [future/upcoming] title published from Microsoft Studios will support Xbox Play Anywhere and will be easily accessible in the Windows Store.”
Instead, they rewrote the entire paragraph, which was previously extremely broadly phrased in a manner that would encompass all future titles, in order to specifically limit themselves solely to the titles presented at E3 2016. Nope, sorry, but the conspiracy is real this time.
thats the thing though kiddo, people are too stupid(like you) and think MS was gonna put every game on win10 store. uugghhhh…. the entitlement of pc gamers. i see why alot of devs/publishers abandoned us too begin with. grow up, MS owes you nothing. you should be thankful.
Come on mods, you told me before that you like to keep things at each side until insults are thrown, well here is your case to do something or prove yourself as complete hypocrites and a disservice to this site and it’s users.
That comment was edited (you know, the “like you” part). Also, Disqus now has a “Block” feature. You can now block people you don’t want to hear from (via the Comment dropdown menu -> Block user)
I know we have the block feature but it still shouldn’t stop mods from doing their jobs at policing the comments section from people who just want to insult others without any sort of consequence.
I know, just saying since this is a new feature for Disqus 😉
Btw, there’s a TF2 news post just waiting for someone *cough cough hint hint* to write it 😛
whats the problem? that i dont follow the norm of hating MS? also insults? hardly.
i do apologize if you were offended though, and will try to watch what i say as far as offensive words go. however i will censor my beliefs.
You called another user stupid in an insulting manner and calling someone stupid regardless is insulting in general.
well i apologize. however, have you read half of what people write here on DSOGAMING? yet you single me out? why? oh because my OPINION conflicted with yours. grow up.
Actually, troll kiddo, if you look through my past comments, you’ll find I was actually quite skeptical of Microsoft’s claim that they were going to put all their future games on the UWP Store, but I guess that’s not particularly relevant to you, is it.
Especially the part where I specifically stress how these claims of theirs would be proven or discredited in their entirety next year, with the “Halo: Master Chief “Redux” Collection” they’ll probably be releasing in-tandem with the Xbox Scorpio, featuring the upcoming Halo 3 Anniversary cut;
If the aforementioned upcoming MCC “Redux” or Halo 3 Anniversary cut found its way to Windows 10 next year, then Halo 6 (2018) most likely would in turn as well. If not, then Microsoft’s claims would have been proven null & void (yet again).
So as far as entitlement goes, speak for yourself. As for Publishers abandoning the PC – yeah, I’m too lazy to explain to someone who doesn’t even care why that really happened.
This level of indecision isn’t going to help M$ in any way.
Damn, here i thought MS changed.. why do i keep getting fooled by them. I hate them, i just want to believe they will change..
Im like a girl that hopes her BF will change and stop beating her some day.. sadly some things never change.
Honestly, they won’t survive without any exclusives. I can’t blame them – Sony obviously goes the opposite direction so they have to respond somehow.
Microsoft is selling consoles again. The Xbox One S and the buzz around the Scorpio will lead them to abandon PC again. Dont buy anything out that win10 store.
Lets just wait then scorpio will fail an they will be begging us to buy their garbage games
well because the xbox peasants are crying about moving to the ps4…to be honest if i had bought the xbox one i would feel a bit pissed…i got a ps3 back in 2010 just for uncharted 2 and mgs4 if they had it pc in the end i would feel cheated…its like “hey we got this game here give use money and you can play it” and then its like “thanks to your money we can give the game to the other system and it will be better there”
…but as a pc gamer mostly im confused about microsoft gaming strategy they are very volatile
Damn. Halo was the reason I was excited about Play Anywhere. Hopefully they still choose to give it the Play Anywhere treatment.
This is just MS being themselves. They want the entire PC market if they had zero competition and zero resistance. For years they have played coy with people and competitors, but as those years went by they end up showing their true colours.
They still want Xbox to sell, they still want people to pay to play online, they still want to hamper their games, tie them to a single built in DRM store with an OS that acts as a form of DRM itself and an API that limits the competition entirely. They don’t want freedom or free competition, they just want your money, compliance and complete dominion over whatever they set their eyes on. The fans however won’t ever see this, those that do will know what to do, those that ignore will just be cast to the fire in due time.
pc gamers would ONLY buy forza and halo any way.
All i want it sunset overdrive and then they can go die in a corner.
Hey moronic dimwit, pc gaming makes more money than all consoles combined and has the most exlusives the techonology used in next gen consoles is low class pc gaming. Piracy is dead for AAA titles since denuvo is uncrackable win10 is free until the end of july.
You dont know anything like your typical console tard
Typical PC PUKE. ONLY HAVE PC BCUZ OF MS. GO BACK TO SLEEP YOU SAND NI GG ER
GTFO
hey moron, quit acting like a clown, Pc gaming makes more money than consoles your pathetic xbox is DYING.
is it sad i like this song the 80’s bring back memories..lol
that can also say the same thing next year.escape clause…lmao