Former Steam Manager Now Leading Windows Gaming

[exfileme]

Former Valve veteran Jason Holtman now resides at Microsoft to make Windows a great platform for gaming.

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[sean1357]

Jump off shirking ship to another disaster ship....

 

[BringMeAnother]

Make it like Steam, but better, if that is possible. We need more competition.

 

[eklipz330]

i disagree. i don't need to have more fragmentation for my pc games. one place is just fine.

 

[Elevory]

At this point, I can't afford to care how good Microsoft Not-Steam may become.

 

[itchyisvegeta]

There's hope for Windows gaming after all.

 

[Guest]

Here's working undercover for Steam, first he tells them to shutdown GFWL then find another way to sink them.

 

[g00fysmiley]

i see this as bad for the gaming community. at m$ he might help make a stronger windows gaming enviroment but that jsut means more DX titles and less of a move to opengl or somethign like that so we can escape m$ altogether

 

[back_by_demand]

Sean1357 clearly has no clue, Steam is the defacto best digital distribution gaming and there is no way to spin this badly for MS

 

[wanderer11]

The last thing I want is another distribution platform. I already have Steam, Origin, and Uplay.

 

[yobobjm]

The fact is, competition is a good thing. Origin and Uplay cannot stand on their own which leaves valve with almost a monopoly on the Pc gaming company.

 

[back_by_demand]

Suggestion for Jason Holtman, if XB1 and Windows 8 are share core kernel then have any game bought digital only playable on both platforms. I play at home on the console then go round to a friends house, "hey dude, I can play this game on your XB1 too, but ohnoez you have a PC instead", but then you launch the Xbox App in W8, login with XBLive and can play on the PC too - finally unite the PC / console divide

 

[BringMeAnother]

Why disagree to more competition? I mean if you don't want to split your library, keep buying from Steam exclusively. It's up to you. If Microsoft do manage to make their platform a major competitor, Steam would be forced to offer even better services and innovate more to stay in the game, so even if you wouldn't touch the Microsoft client with a ten feet pole, you'd still benefit.