I posted this in the video game thread but probably belongs here too. It's been going around on the various gaming forums. Hope Microsoft doesn't try to lock down PC gaming on Windows 10 but the abomination of GFWL doesn't give me much hope. However, they've said that "they'll do better" on these items already and it is early days . . .
http://www.pcgamer.com/why-pc-games-...buffer-pcgamer
Microsoft as a company has been the subject of many investigations for anticompetitive behavior in the past, both in the US and the EU. One particular strategy uncovered and named during these investigations is Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish: it involves entering a market with an open and standards-compliant platform, subsequently adding proprietary features and using those to disadvantage the competition.
Handing Microsoft—or any other company, but given Microsoft’s history it’s particularly egregious—the metaphorical keys to the castle and giving them the possibility to enact such change, regardless of the likelihood of them actually implementing it, is something I can never countenance.
However, one fact should be clear. If you buy a game as a UWA then, in many aspects such as user control, interoperability, moddability and the overall ecosystem, what you are getting is closer to a console game running on a PC than what we traditionally consider a PC game.
http://www.howtogeek.com/243012/why-...windows-store/
No SLI or CrossFire
VSync is Always On
Always Borderless Fullscreen Mode
Sorry, No Modding
No .exe File (and No Steam Controller)
No OverlaysMouse Macros Won’t Work