Tim Sweeney believes that Microsoft will harm Steam with Windows 10 updates

[WYP]

Tim Sweeney believes that Microsoft will work to make Steam "progressively worse" with Windows 10 updates in order to force developers onto UWP.



Read more on Tim Sweeney's opinions on Windows 10 and the future of Win32 applications.

 

[AdmiralDonut]

"they will force-patch Windows 10 to make Steam progressively worse and more broken. They’ll never completely break it, but will continue to break it until, in five years, people are so fed up that Steam is buggy that the Windows Store seems like an ideal alternative."

This would be a breach of every anti-trust/monopoly law on the books. Microsoft have already been hauled over the coals for this kind of , so I highly doubt they'll even begin to attempt this. Microsoft are greedy bastards, but don't make the mistake of thinking they are stupid.

 

[xnax2802]

Seems like a bit of a tinfoil hat statement, but I have a grim feeling that he might just get to say "I told you so."

 

[Doomslayer]

"they will force-patch Windows 10 to make Steam progressively worse and more broken. They’ll never completely break it, but will continue to break it until, in five years, people are so fed up that Steam is buggy that the Windows Store seems like an ideal alternative."

This would be a breach of every anti-trust/monopoly law on the books. Microsoft have already been hauled over the coals for this kind of , so I highly doubt they'll even begin to attempt this. Microsoft are greedy bastards, but don't make the mistake of thinking they are stupid.

Lord Gaben will not let that happen why do you think he's pushing Linux cause he can see what Microsoft is doing.

Yes i trust Steam a hell of a lot more than i do Microsoft.

I heard somewhere like 2 maybe 3 years ago where Gaben went to Microsoft and he seen what they were going to do and that is why he has started pushing Linux more & more.

 

[ImprovizoR]

People who think that this is just a tinfoil conspiracy have no idea what Microsoft has been trying to achieve for the better part of the last decade. Microsoft has a giant boner for how Apple does business. They've been trying to out-Apple Apple at every corner. If you think that Microsoft doesn't see Steam as a competitor that needs to be phased out you're being naive. Microsoft absolutely will try to monopolize PC gaming in the worst way imaginable.

The good news is that they will fail because that's not the only awful thing they're trying to do. They're trying to turn Windows 10 into a cloud based OS more and more with each update, they spy on everything you do, they don't let you update what you want and when you want. If they can take control away from users they absolutely will. Their first announcement of Xbone that made people lose their mind was all about taking control away from users. If you think that Microsoft would just give up on that you have no idea who they are.

Windows is becoming a bigger inconvenience every day and they can't get it to take off on mobile. Microsoft is really risking way too much for little to no gain. They've already failed to get 1 billion users which was their plan with Windows 10.

Meanwhile Linux is everywhere except on desktop. It's only a matter of time before it takes over desktop as well. I only wish Google would get on that desktop and laptop train and develop a fully functional Android OS designed specifically for desktop. It would blow up over night. If that were to happen, Linux would finally have the support it needs from big third party developers.

"they will force-patch Windows 10 to make Steam progressively worse and more broken. They’ll never completely break it, but will continue to break it until, in five years, people are so fed up that Steam is buggy that the Windows Store seems like an ideal alternative."

This would be a breach of every anti-trust/monopoly law on the books. Microsoft have already been hauled over the coals for this kind of , so I highly doubt they'll even begin to attempt this. Microsoft are greedy bastards, but don't make the mistake of thinking they are stupid.

Those lawsuits take years. Enough to bury their competition.

 

[Greenback]

I still have a windows 7 disk so if it got to that point I'd go back to that, I have to much money in steam games to just abandon it even if i had to go linux

 

[Kleptobot]

Microsoft doesn't make the majority of its money in the consumer space, the real profits always have and always will be in the corporate space. If Microsoft wanted to completely phase out win32 as Sweeney suggests they wouldn't just be thumbing their nose at gamers. A large proportion of expensive and heavily ingrained software packages currently rely on win32. If Microsoft broke backward compatibility that badly they would have isolated themselves from their main source of income.

TLDR: this story is scare mongering

 

[SeekaX]

Tinfoil hat statement because a)

This would be a breach of every anti-trust/monopoly law on the books. Microsoft have already been hauled over the coals for this kind of , so I highly doubt they'll even begin to attempt this. Microsoft are greedy bastards, but don't make the mistake of thinking they are stupid.

and b), even if Steam runs like crap, i've got hundreds of games there, i won't abandon those. They'd have to make Steam not run at all for me to abandon it at this point and there's no way anything close to that will happen.

 

[Dicehunter]

Honestly wouldn't surprise me, Big corporations are not to be trusted, Steam next to MS is pretty small in the global market, MS however is everywhere on every PC.

 

[RobM]

greedy corporations always try and monopolise.

 

[Bullmecha]

Thank god for Ubuntu and the many other linux versions... game developers go find it.
They never will but hopefully this may give them a nudge

 

[xnax2802]

Thank god for Ubuntu and the many other linux versions... game developers go find it.
They never will but hopefully this may give them a nudge

Considering the Steam survey results on OS market share, there are quite a lot of games on Steam alone, that are available for Linux users

 

[Dicehunter]

Thank god for Ubuntu and the many other linux versions... game developers go find it.
They never will but hopefully this may give them a nudge

We just now need a Ubuntu/Linux distro that is uniform as it's such a fractured platform.

 

[Greenback]

The problem with Linux is the average joe can't just go get motherboard drivers from asus, msi and the like

 

[Dark NighT]

The problem with Linux is the average joe can't just go get motherboard drivers from asus, msi and the like

The real problem is 95% of my games wont run on linux because of DirectX, And that will never be available for linux, so i wont switch over.

Besides what this man believes sounds like a madman's ravings, developers already know uwp has a bad reputation, does anyone think any of the reputable developers would go exclusive to uwp platform, if yes then microsoft probably bribed them to, but otherwise, i highly doubt it.

 

[SuB]

The real problem is 95% of my games wont run on linux because of DirectX, And that will never be available for linux, so i wont switch over.

Besides what this man believes sounds like a madman's ravings, developers already know uwp has a bad reputation, does anyone think any of the reputable developers would go exclusive to uwp platform, if yes then microsoft probably bribed them to, but otherwise, i highly doubt it.

This.. right here.. DirectX Good luck getting your thousands of pounds worth of games that are DirectX to work on Linux.

This is a little tabloidy WYP.. very Daily Mail style story this one.

 

[mjmedina]

This is speculation from Tim Sweeney, but I suppose there is a remote possibility Microsoft may be deterred by people going public about their concerns.