Telltale games says the Windows Store offers wider reach than Steam, will port full catalogue there
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[QUOTE]Writing on the Microsoft Blog, Telltale games, who created narrative episodic games such as The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Game of Thrones, Tales from the Borderlands and, most recently,Minecraft: Story Mode, explained their ease of porting their titles to the Windows Store, and also explained why they chose this new avenue to distribute their wares.
Telltale games has always been cross-platform, and currently supports 14 platforms, including Android, iOS, PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam.
In December 2015 Telltale Games brought Minecraft: Story Mode to the Windows Store by ported their game engine to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP).
The company use the same game engine for all their games, and by porting the engine the game is automatically ported.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://mspoweruser.com/telltale-games-says-the-windows-store-offers-wider-reach-for-casual-and-first-time-gamers-than-steam-will-port-full-catalogue-there/[/url]
Well I mean they're not wrong
[QUOTE]Steam has around 125 million active users, but Windows 10 already has more than 300 million active users, with this number set to rapidly increase over the next 2 years to hit Microsoft’s 1 billion target.[/QUOTE]
the question isn't how many people have the windows store though, it's how many [i]use[/i] it. Because I technically have a few devices with windows store but I have never used the windows store for anything.
lmao good luck dudes
ignoring steam greenlight, Steam's already got a huge amount of momentum going.
ah yes, the place gamers on windows machines go for games due to the gaming market largely ignoring them, the windows store
[QUOTE=dai;50434889]ah yes, the place gamers on windows machines go for games due to the gaming market largely ignoring them, the windows store[/QUOTE]
how long until they think steam is for linux users or some stupid shit
despite the fact that it literally founded gaming on microsofts OS
[QUOTE=Elspin;50434861]Well I mean they're not wrong
[quote]Steam has around 125 million active users, but Windows 10 already has more than 300 million active users, with this number set to rapidly increase over the next 2 years to hit Microsoft’s 1 billion target.
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the question isn't how many people have the windows store though, it's how many [i]use[/i] it. Because I technically have a few devices with windows store but I have never used the windows store for anything.[/QUOTE]
but if you put it on both, you'll get 425 million users!
Competition to Steam a good thing etc.
Still kinda sucks. After Windows' lack of Apps on their phone market, don't think this will fare much better, and I don't plan on starting yet another new game collection other than my Steam, Origin, Uplay and GOG library.
[QUOTE=Selek;50434908]Competition to Steam a good thing etc.
Still kinda sucks. After Windows' lack of Apps on their phone market, don't think this will fare much better, and I don't plan on starting yet another new game collection other than my Steam, Origin, Uplay and GOG library.[/QUOTE]
Gotta disagree with this being real competition or even a good thing. To really compete you need to have tradeoffs, wheras the windows store's only advantage is that its easier to market with an due to being already built into the OS and is a minor example of a vertical monopoly in the making. It reminds me of when microsoft was forced to package other browsers with their OS in the EU. Meanwhile, all the downsides of the windows store like windows live esque brokenness, draconian drm/file system control, lack of ability to hook into normally for any overlay or video recording programs, no mods, demonstrates tons of consumer disadvantages PC gamers really don't need in our games.
Examples of actual competition to steam include GoG, GmG, and maybe origin despite having mostly? EA games. GoG is probably the best of these and has the most consumer friendly practices, we dont need competition from the microsoft angle and it will likely be yet another windows live tier stain on gaming history.
this is like arguing google plus has a wider reach than facebook
it has a fuckton of users except none of them actually use it
[quote]Steam has around 125 million active users, but Windows 10 already has more than 300 million active users, with this number set to rapidly increase over the next 2 years to hit Microsoft’s 1 billion target.[/quote]
HA! As if that means anything, people use steam because it's a catalog specifically designed around buying games - more or less. People use W10 because it's an entire damn OS, and having more users does not translate to having a larger audience. Here's a much better number for going about this, what percentage of W10 uses frequently browse and buy games on the Windows Store?
What defines an "active user"?
Everyone who owns Win8/8.1 or 10 has access to the store but who actively uses it?
I visited it once, does that make me an active user in their stats?
I seriously don't know a single person who has ever even opened the Windows store except by accident. That includes myself.
[QUOTE=dai;50434889]ah yes, the place gamers on windows machines go for games due to the gaming market largely ignoring them, the windows store[/QUOTE]
I didn't even know how to open the store so I started typing store into the start menu, it recommended steam as soon as I pressed S
[QUOTE=Dr. Evilcop;50435232]I seriously don't know a single person who has ever even opened the Windows store except by accident. That includes myself.[/QUOTE]
I tried to download Asphalt 8.
It didn't work and the download never started. Several days later, the store has stopped working and till this day I am unable to open the Windows store.
As everyone already pointed out, 300 million windows 8.1-10 users do not equal 300 millions windows store users.
I even uninstalled the windows store, along with other "apps" I will never use, from my windows 10.:cool:
i have windows 10 for a few months didnt even know about the windows store lol
I can't even use the windows store since I've got UAC disabled
This will possibly tap into a decent amount of super casual users. But much like most people on this thread, I've never used Windows Store at all. I have pretty much everything extra disabled on W10.
How many of those users are people who just have Win 10 and have no intent to use it or have no idea what it is?
Lol, when installing windows 10 I don't even connect my microsoft account to it, so no store for me. I don't need to connect my account, there's literally no feature I care about that I need it for.
Am I actually the only person to use the app store in this thread? I like stuff like the Netflix app.
[QUOTE=Em See;50435339]I can't even use the windows store since I've got UAC disabled[/QUOTE]Why would you have that disabled?
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;50436014]Am I actually the only person to use the app store in this thread? I like stuff like the Netflix app.[/QUOTE]
Netflix isn't a game though
the windows store cannot compete with either apple or google, Microsoft makes it so clunky and hard to find shit
[editline]1st June 2016[/editline]
200 different facebook and instagram clones, wow-wee
[QUOTE=CoreWaffle;50436033]Why would you have that disabled?[/QUOTE]
Massive annoyance whenever you try to install programs? I always disable it because it's really fucking annoying.
The only reason I've ever opened the Windows Store was to see if Candy Crush was in there (it was) and to see if I could buy Quantum Break which I couldn't since I hadn't updated in a while. Also the cost was so ridiculous, I couldn't fathom even going forward with a purchase either way.
The only reason I see myself opening the Windows Store ever again is for a real full Forza game to come out on W10 or MCC getting ported over to W10.
However if Telltale doesn't need to use many man hours to expand their reach to another platform entirely as is the case with UWP in general. Why not, honestly?
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;50436014]Am I actually the only person to use the app store in this thread? I like stuff like the Netflix app.[/QUOTE]
I used it to get Killer Instinct, but that's about it.
If any more MS game titles come along that fancy my interest, I'll probably use it again too.
The Windows Store isn't bad, but until the whole situation with UWAs gets improved, and it gets more than just MS titles, it will be a niche marketplace for an audience that's so used to getting their games from Steam and their 3rd party apps as Win32 executables from the 3rd party's site.
[QUOTE=CoreWaffle;50436033]Why would you have that disabled?[/QUOTE]
I think the question is more so why wouldn't you have it disabled?
Frankly, the level of user capability on windows machines is way too low. So low that microsoft had to add a feature that overlays your screen, stops you from what you're doing to say "hey, idiot, you sure you wanna do that?" Whenever you make system changes or start an installation of any type.
Anybody with any knowledge of their system is going to know what they are changing, why they are changing it, what they are installing and why they are installing it. Users who have a good idea about their computer view it as an annoying bird on their shoulder that wont shutup.
They can do that but ultimately windows store still has a much smaller audience than steam
Every steam user has bought something on the store, not every windows user is a Windows store user
As long as they aren't being exclusive to Windows tore I'm fine with it, I just hate when publishers decide exclusivity to niche stores like origin just to boost that store
Telltale is expanding their platforms, making sure they have a reach everywhere to sell more games. I doubt they are doing this because of a business contract with Windows.
It seems it is rather easy for developers to bring their games to the platform, so why not. (At least it's in the case of Telltale as the article implies)
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