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[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago

Didn't they already try pushing into the gaming market with their Windows Store versions of games?

Did anyone even use the Windows Store besides the elderly who just wanted their goddamn Solitaire back?

[-] git@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

I had to use it for Gears of War 4 and Gears of War UE. My experiences:

  • It’s taking half an hour to start the download. What the fuck is it doing?
  • Oh good, it’s almost installed. Oh it paused for some reason? No problem I’ll just resume- oh, it’s just restarted the whole 120GB download.
  • I’ll restart my PC because Steam can pick up where it pauses between restarts and surely Microsoft the creator of the fucking OS can get something basic like that correct- oh I guess not.
  • Oh sweet an update for Gears, oh wait no it’s redownloading the entire game to apply the update.
  • Why isn’t the update downloading? Oh support is telling me I need to uninstall and reinstall the game. Oh that didn’t work this time and instead I need to enter an obscure wsreset command instead?
  • What do you mean I can’t access the game folder to look at the files?
  • Why isn’t the game launching any more? It’s just stuck on the splash screen. Oh the store says it’s corrupt? It needs a full redownload again.

Not to mention the issues with Microsoft sign in/Teredo once in-game.

The Xbox app has the same issues because it’s just a differently coloured UI over the same APIs. They’ve had multiple decades and still can’t get the basics right, I think Steam will be fine.

[-] Melonius@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

What do you mean I can’t access the game folder to look at the files?

This pissed me off so much. I couldn't uninstall something so I figured I'd just delete the folder. "Access denied" from my own harddrive. Leave it to the OS developers to make the most effective malware

this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2024
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