MS Partnering with steam a good thing or not, if even possible....

Just seen this:

Microsoft Might Be About To Announce Xbox One/Steam Cross-Play

Its an interesting thought, not sure its possible but would be very clever IMO.

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turtle beach gaming headsets

I have Turtle Beach headsets and play online no problems at all. The only advantage you get is that you have better sound so not sure how they can ban that. I have a really good surround sound which they cant ban. Dont worry about it, like 24hrs said, MS
are partnering with them anyway so buy away. One thing to remember is that at this stage current headsets are not compatible with the XB1 if you happen to be getting one.

 

Solutions - what does MS have to do to fix this mess for you to buy day one

How would people feel if Ms would partner with steam - or least rip off steam and have tremendous sales. granted MS does sales, but they are usually no more than 25% or 50% off on subpar titles, while steam gets 75 and 80% off on certain titles that are
usually amazing. hell even ps3 sales are better than the 360 most of the time and we still pay a subscription.

 

As long as K/M doesn't come to my MP I don't care.

 

Sorry i have no idea what that means.

 

think he's referring to keyboard & mouse

 

ah gotcha (thanks), I don't mind a mix of K&M, as long as I know who has an hasn't got what, then its for me to choose.

Different lobbies is also an option.

 

Heu,i scratch my head....

Microsoft is trying to compete with Steam by giving away some Xbox one exclusive to PC gamer (Quantum Break won't be sold on Steam,until they look at sale figures)....But rumor says that Microsoft might partnership with Steam for crossplay.

illogical.

Crossplay can be done without Steam.

Steam is an online retailer platform,not a crossplay servers provider.

 

I like it if true. I am most of the time in Steam now, so to be able to play friends/family who are xbox..... Thumbs up.

 

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Hello everyone

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Wouldn't developers be losing money if a " Steam " method of gaming on the Xbox One actually happends?

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Have a nice day or afternoon or night everyone

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IMO MS don't do retail well but steam do, if it is true IMO its a good thing, but I don't know how steam has or how it works so the benefits beyond that are unclear, as Tzar suggested.

 

Maybe. Most PC's run a Microsoft Operating System anyway (Windows 10, previous Windows versions). They're into gaming and even acquired Minecraft. I think they are creating a unified UI (Windows 10) across multiple devices and this is evident between PC's
with Windows 10 and Xbox 1's Windows 10 like, UI, and the Xbox app. I think there are already enough people on Xbox 1 (a lot of people are still on Xbox 360). Unifying gaming experience sounds like a good thing without having to have a separate account for
steam and separate one for Xbox and cross platform multiplayer will give you more people to play with. But I'm fine with how Xbox is now.

 

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Hello "EnenDaveyBoy"

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I've never used Steam before, but my guess is that in a family setting a single game purchase could be played my multiple people who live in completely different locations.

Take this for example

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(1) Father buys " nameless game 1 "

(2) Son buys " nameless game 2 "

(3) 2nd son buys " nameless game 3 "

(4) Daughter buys " nameless game 4 "

(5) 2nd Daughter buys " nameless game 5 "

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My guess is that the Steam account and account password would be passed along if a family member wanted to play a certain game.

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Have a nice day or afternoon or night "EnenDaveyBoy"

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You can family share on steam. So you can play the same game as long as no one else is playing it.

 

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Hello "EnenDaveyBoy"

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In that case, a game can be played by 5 people in 5 different locations then as long as no one is playing it.

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So, there would be no reason for the other 4 members to buy said game when they can wait for the next person to finish playing it.

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Have a nice day or afternoon or night "EnenDaveyBoy"

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