Among windows(PC) gamers, Microsoft Games for Windows Live software, which offers sales of digital games, friends lists and DRM for publishers has a status as a guy almost irritating, overfriendly who you talk to at family gatherings, but really, really do not want.
Therefore, with some trepidation that we have read low compared to the Joystiq that Microsoft isplanning a review of the entire system, including the Games for Windows Marketplace. The idea seems to be trying to get more publishers selling games by platform, allowing Microsoft to compete a little more effectively with others as steam took over the ship while Windows games Microsoft has been far from the bar.
The timing of the statement is a bit awkward. Recently, Valve announced that its platform Steam dominant PC gaming community has half the size of Xbox Live. For some it may seem that Microsoft has heard the news, had a crisis of faith and realized how much abuse has been lashing the PC platform is-all-people. But in reality, it seems that this is something that Microsoft has been planning for some time, particularly to coincide with the launch of Age of Empires online. He even sent on Peter Orullian who helped sort Microsoft digital distribution on Xbox Live, to manage recovery.
“We had many comments and respond to these comments, there are certain key elements that we believe resolve this problem,”said Orullian Joystiq. “Perhaps the most important component to make the transaction in Internet law. Now you go and have a site that talks about games, so we have a client,” he said.
“Feedback we have heard, it is not always the easiest experience, if we make the transaction component of Internet law. The client will continue to exist, but there manage really, really large files that are perhaps not so easily managed through the web and it will be your transaction history, and so if you need to re-download a game, you can go and do it. But he will not have to go and buy games, “he said.
Looking at the pictures, Microsoft has released a platform for future user interface appear to have been directly motivated by the steam in terms of color and class, even though Microsoft claims that it is really that Amazon will take the initiative. The company claims that it aims to achieve a simplification, but the overall consumer experience, which includes the deals and promotions.
