Games on Demand, the Xbox 360's way of letting you spend a needless amount of extra cash on games for the convenience of not leaving your home, is making its way to Games for Windows LIVE.
The service will be added on December 15, with a few games headlining the debut. Resident Evil 5, Red Faction: Guerrilla, and Battlestations: Pacific are set to be the big three. Surprisingly, "LIVE-enabled" versions of Osmos and World of Goo are also going to show up in Games on Demand.
Similarly, Tinker will be getting the same treatment, but it's going to be a free download. While it's nice to see Microsoft delving into smaller games rather than making GoD for PC an exact clone of the Xbox 360 service, there's a word I keep thinking of. What is that thing called again? Oh, right. Steam.
Regardless, this move puts us one step closer to the digital distribution future many of us are craving.
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5:20 PM on 12.03.2009
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Exactly. I'd honestly be happy if Valve would stay ahead in the market (and expect them to do so); we don't need Microsoft getting yet another demographic they can screw over.
On a serious note this looks like a joke compared to Steam. I don't even play PCs and I can tell you that much.
I'm pretty sure that MS will overcharge out the ass for it. Look at the 360 Games on Demand service for proof, I guess.
For an MP game, as you put it, Red Faction (assuming you're talking about Guerrilla here) sure suffers from a lack of something that would make a PC MP game good...hmm, what could it be? It's right there on the tip of my tongue...de...de...delta V? NO! That's not it. Dammit...oh, I know: dedicated servers. What a novel idea, eh?
So, All the commenters bitching about the author not knowing anything about GFW, and how "it doesn't sell games like Steam": WHAT NOW BITCHES?
...a dream come true...I've always wanted to correct someone in their own language. :')
Well, first, it means that for twelve more days, it still does NOT sell games.
Second, when it does, feel free to judge this new service with more openness. I mentioned this before, and will say it again, the attitude of Steam users IS a turn off to some of its prospective customer base. It is hard to want to use a service when you read how their customers view other competitors. Bad enough GFWL users have to see article authors not do their jobs properly (ie RESEARCH YOUR FACTS!), but also see their overt biasness towards anything NOT CALLED Steam. THERE ARE CHOICES, and you should appriciate that.
Third, it does bring smaller, more independent titles to the GFWL banner. Which means games like World Of Goo can possibly find some new customers because the game has been put on Steam's sale list like five times already and it might have tapped that service's customer interest in the game. Anything that gives 2D Boy more sales is always a good thing, no?
Fourth and finally, it means when it does launch, developers and publishers will have another choice in the DD market. For all the complaining Steam users do on GFWL (but yet do not even bring 1/500 the hate to Impulse or D2D as much as they do GFWL), GFWL was the first to bring things like DLC and Achievements to the PC (ie "LIVE ENABLED"), which Steam then promptly took and NOW you love them. So be thankful GFWL gave your Steam service the "inspiration" to add more to the games you play on your service of choice. Because I am certain the GFWL community would have welcomed MW2 with a lot less complaining and hatred than the Steam community did.
From this "bitch" I hope this answered your question. Yes, MS is the big bad boogy man. Old news is OLD. While the GFWL commnity is smaller, we do like the service for what it is. It is a shame you can not give us even that.
And to match your comment - "WILDCARD, BITCHES!"
NO THANKS.
It's funny when MS, the people who run Windows and DirectX, are my most feared publisher because they never bring out PC versions since Halo 2. EA and Ubisoft port EVERYTHING. It's just ironic.
Congrats on generalizing and stereotyping every Steam user out there. Just read the comments in both threads: even Steam users are happy for the competition (talk about not doing your research.)
I'm happy for D2D and Impulse. Is it the fan base's fault what Valve offers with Steam is in so many people's opinions better than the competition?
People shit on GFW because ther service hasn't offered anything remotely like Steam or D2D, and to be quite honest, is a clunky system (on the PC.) It also had the potential for cross platform play that was only used in games most people didn't even play.
Good luck to them, perhaps they'll do well. Frankly, I think they'll go over like a fart in church.
In fact, I really don't understand why digital distribution services feel the need to do anything beyond letting you download the game. I really don't like the fact that the games I buy on steam are saved to the steam folder and treated as the steam application by the nvidia control panel. I've always been able to change the settings I've wanted to, but often times not without a huge amount of pain in the ass searching. I like Direct2Drives method more. Just give me the game, and keep a record of my buying it. I can install it to steam later if I want.
P.S. The _only_ place I want digital distribution is on my PC. I do not want digital distributions of my console games or HD movies. And the only reason I want it is because Steam is great and things like this are very easy to manage on PCs.