Telltale games says the Windows Store offers wider reach than Steam, will port full catalogue there
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I love it when companies and officials make these sort of claims, up to 300 million users yet we won't be telling or be told the exact amount that happens to actually use the service.
Misleading figures all the time make me want to roll my eyes.
Better yet, if it is true, how many of them actually purchase games, excluding mobile ports/f2p junk.
Telltale has done this sort of thing before. You guys remember Gametap? They basically headlined that service with Sam and Max.
The only reason I can think of them doing this is because they'll have less competition with other 'real' games via the Windows store. Its harder to compete with the big boys when all you have are cheap gimmicks and quick time events.
the only time i ever opened/used the windows store was to install the netflix app when 10 released, never looked at it after that
[QUOTE=J!NX;50434893]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]
How the hell did Steam found gaming on Windows? Do you think no one was playing on PC before 2003?
[QUOTE=J!NX;50434893]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]
I have been gaming on PC since 2000.
How the fuck did Steam found PC gaming? Did you even think before posting this shit?
I tried to use the windows store once but then I remembered I destroyed windows spying and it can't do anything anymore.
[QUOTE=Elspin;50434861]Well I mean they're not wrong
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]
So far I've claimed my free Minecraft Win10 Edition (because that shit's got native 360 controller support and it runs way better so it was perfect for a time-killer on my shitty laptop at school) and am waiting for Halo 5 Forge later this year. Other than that, there's nothing on there I can't get on Steam that I actually want aside from GoW:UE.
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Because isn't Quantum Break really badly ported? I haven't seen any complaints about the Gears port but I remember Quantum Break was a big deal.
[QUOTE=Furnost;50438135]the only time i ever opened/used the windows store was to install the netflix app when 10 released, never looked at it after that[/QUOTE]
Is there a reason to use the Netflix app over the website?
What a bunch of idiots.
That title's not true, by the way. No one at Telltale said that. It was posted on a microsoft blog by the "Windows App Team". The blog post included bits of an interview, but that quote wasn't from it.
[url]https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/05/31/bringing-minecraft-story-mode-to-the-universal-windows-platform-uwp-and-windows-store/[/url]
post-Season 1 WD TellTale.
AKA: Who cares?
[QUOTE=General J;50438996]post-Season 1 WD TellTale.
AKA: Who cares?[/QUOTE]
I mean you have one season of Wolf Among Us you can play, and however much of Game of Throne, and I hear the Borderlands one is pretty good so
most people?
[QUOTE=Source;50438781]What a bunch of idiots.[/QUOTE]
What's idiotic about having games on steam and the windows store.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;50438706]Is there a reason to use the Netflix app over the website?[/QUOTE]
Iirc some browsers (Chrome/Firefox) don't display shows/movies in 1080p for some reason, but I heard this a few months ago.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;50438706]Is there a reason to use the Netflix app over the website?[/QUOTE]
Resources, if anything, but that's usually negligible.
People will argue "but notifications!" for Windows Store apps on desktop, but I still insist that UWP are only good for tablet and mobile.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;50438706]Is there a reason to use the Netflix app over the website?[/QUOTE]
Hardware video acceleration in a dedicated process mostly, so frames don't drop due to browser weirdness, which is noticeable at 24p. I have a lot of syncing issues in the browser at that refresh rate. Also if I recall correctly the browser player is slightly gimped so it doesn't support surround and higher resolutions/bitrates correctly.
That was true in the past which is why I started using it. Not sure about currently.
[QUOTE=Demache;50441362]Hardware video acceleration in a dedicated process mostly, so frames don't drop due to browser weirdness, which is noticeable at 24p. I have a lot of syncing issues in the browser at that refresh rate. Also if I recall correctly the browser player is slightly gimped so it doesn't support surround and higher resolutions/bitrates correctly.
That was true in the past which is why I started using it. Not sure about currently.[/QUOTE]
I haven't had any trouble watching The Walking Dead up to season 5 at Win 10 64-bit Firefox. I don't [I]think[/I] it's sub-1080.
[QUOTE=gk99;50441593]I haven't had any trouble watching The Walking Dead up to season 5 at Win 10 64-bit Firefox. I don't [I]think[/I] it's sub-1080.[/QUOTE]
Like mentioned, this was confirmed true about a year or two ago, but I'm not sure if it still is since Netflix has made a couple changes here and there. I know for a fact that dedicated video devices (Chromecast, Blu-ray players, etc) had always gotten special treatment while the browser player was basically second class. The Netflix app bridged that gap which is why people use it.
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