I almost forgot this technicolour hell vision of the future of PC gaming Microsoft conjured up. Who knew the distopian future would be so... colourful? When we are all working in the off world Microsoft mines spending our meager credits on avatar clothing just know i fucking called it
Perhaps they don't realise that people bought i-pods because their Friends bough i-pods? This is how trends come about, the reason people play facebook games is because those games are on facebook.A lot of people are on facebook, it's a simple equation. The audience came before the games did. GFWL has no existing mass of people, people play facebook games because they are bored and on facebook. People don't actively seek out shit like farmville it's just THERE and that's why it can get away with being so shite. Their audience would just be looking up pictures of amusing cats or typing "Im bored" into google if they weren't playing frontier-ville or whatever sudo-game Zynga have recently excreted. People mainly play social games because they are already plugged into the social network they exist in. They are something sprung on a captive audience, in this distopian PC-Gaming future there is no hook to get people to use this GFWL mutation. The service has to be forced on begrudging people as it is, many PC gamers actively AVOID anything with GFWL because on many people's PCs (including my own) the service simply won't let them play the games they paid for. But microsoft seems to want to jump on the choo-hoo trian stright to Zynga-Ville with all that delicous microtransaction money. |
As Kutz once said "The Horror... The Horror..."
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