More storefronts are fine, unless those storefronts are bastions of exclusivity. PC gaming has always been a market at war with itself-piracy, game-breaking DRM, lousy ports, all balanced out by the openness and freedom of the platform at its best. It takes a fairly pro-consumer idea and turns it on its head. 27% of gamers still have Vista machines.)Īs great as I think the 'Play Anywhere' initiative is, forcing PC gamers into an operating system they may not want, and not including games in Steam, strikes me as a massively wrong-headed move.
Others are still playing on Windows 8.1 for some reason and 1.7% of gamers surveyed remain stalwart holdouts, clinging to Windows XP.
