Microsoft wants your help to Make PC Gaming Great Again!

[AlTech]

Microsoft wants your help to make PC gaming great again! The company has sent out a survey to all Windows Insiders registered as PC gamers. The company wants to know what kind of games you love, what games you've played recently, where you buys games and the components in your PC.

 

 

 

All Windows Insiders who are gamers are encouraged to help make  PC gaming great again!

 

In your survey responses, you mentioned that you are a PC gamer. Since we aim to build the best Windows yet for gaming, we’d like find out more about what's important to you in PC gaming with a short, follow-up survey.

 

Yay! See! Everybody hating on Windows 10 can stop cos they care about making it better.

 

What do you think? Do you think Windows Insiders are sheep or do you think they are BETA Testers?

[minibois]

They probably just want some data they can show at some business conference later, about how all Microsoft Studio published games on PC and Xbox One will do super duper good.

I'm a little skeptical, because they have promised numerous times they wanted to make PC gaming/take it serious, but nothing really came from it. Cool that they seem to care now.. But I'm not gonna hype it up.

[AlTech]

5 minutes ago, Minibois said:

They probably just want some data they can show at some business conference later, about how all Microsoft Studio published games on PC and Xbox One will do super duper good.

I'm a little skeptical, because they have promised numerous times they wanted to make PC gaming/take it serious, but nothing really came from it. Cool that they seem to care now.. But I'm not gonna hype it up.

No but they want to see if games are compatible with your PC aka. Does your PC have enough storage space? Does it have enough RAM? Does it have enough cores? That kinda thing as well as what kind of games people like AND what people like inside of games? (E.g. Game Mechanics)

[minibois]

7 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

No but they want to see if games are compatible with your PC aka. Does your PC have enough storage space? Does it have enough RAM? Does it have enough cores? That kinda thing as well as what kind of games people like AND what people like inside of games? (E.g. Game Mechanics)

Do they only ask hardware and game specific questions? I would have expected them to ask about stuff like how driver support was and stuff about DirectX for example.

[manikyath]

i guess they are fishing for PC-sided things in relation to the Xbone/PC cross compat thing.

 

i dont see how this could be any bad.

[CommandMan7]

Dear Microsoft,

 

A message from PC Gamers on how to make Windows 10 the best for gaming:

 

1. Ditch the Windows Store and UWP.

2. Ditch the Windows Store and UWP.

3. Ditch the Windows Store and UWP.

4. Also, on my 8GB system compared to Win7 there's some RAM leak that makes restarts mandatory every 12 hours.

[AlTech]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

i guess they are fishing for PC-sided things in relation to the Xbone/PC cross compat thing.

 

i dont see how this could be any bad.

It seems that they want to know what gamers like the most within games and also if gamers can play demanding games well or not.

 

I think this is an admission of guilt from them and how they will probably ditch Xbox consoles and instead focus on Xbox branded PCs by Microsoft.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, CommandMan7 said:

4. Also, on my 8GB system compared to Win7 there's some RAM leak that makes restarts mandatory every 12 hours.

well.. i have systems gladly run for months on end, maybe its not MS, but something you did wrong instead?

[AlTech]

2 minutes ago, CommandMan7 said:

Dear Microsoft,

 

A message from PC Gamers on how to make Windows 10 the best for gaming:

 

1. Ditch the Windows Store and UWP.

2. Ditch the Windows Store and UWP.

3. Ditch the Windows Store and UWP.

4. Also, on my 8GB system compared to Win7 there's some RAM leak that makes restarts mandatory every 12 hours.

Actually the UWP and Windows Store are permanent. If they got rid of that tomorrow half of your PC wouldn't work.

[AlTech]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

well.. i have systems gladly run for months on end, maybe its not MS, but something you did wrong instead?

I think  8GB on Windows 10 is enough for some things. But it seems like Windows 10 is allocating more RAM to UWP apps instead of Win32 programs.

[CommandMan7]

2 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Actually the UWP and Windows Store are permanent. If they got rid of that tomorrow half of your PC wouldn't work.

They're Microsoft, I'm sure they can control what is used their own products. Also I've never used either of those 2 things so I have no clue what vital functions rely on those.

[manikyath]

1 minute ago, AluminiumTech said:

I think  8GB on Windows 10 is enough for some things. But it seems like Windows 10 is allocating more RAM to UWP apps instead of Win32 programs.

meanwhile win10 turned my mom's disaster of a netbook into a swiftly running device with 4GB ram and an APU smaller than your phone's arm processor.

[CommandMan7]

3 minutes ago, manikyath said:

meanwhile win10 turned my mom's disaster of a netbook into a swiftly running device with 4GB ram and an APU smaller than your phone's arm processor.

Of course it helps lower power devices, but I simply don't believe it can manage a large number (200+) programs on 8GB of RAM due to Windows 10 using RAM much more liberally than previous windows. Of course this drastically speeds up normal usage but under heavy usage the performance chokes on 8GB compared to Windows 7.

[Monkey Dust]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

i dont see how this could be any bad.

MS will find a way.

 

I suspect like many corporate surveys it's purpose isn't to fact find, it's to pick out responses they like and focus on them intently, while ignoring responses they don't. They already know what they are going to do, this is just a formality.

 

Ultimately MS makes money off every XBOX game sold, and nothing off windows games they didn't publish, hence they'd much rather we gamed on XBOX. Either they are going to have another crack at taking Valves slice of the pie with the windows store, or to discourage PC gaming in the hope of many of us switching to XBOX. They won't succeed, but it doesn't mean they have our interests at heart, or that they won't inconvenience us along the way.

[AlTech]

3 minutes ago, Monkey Dust said:

MS will find a way.

 

I suspect like many corporate surveys it's purpose isn't to fact find, it's to pick out responses they like and focus on them intently, while ignoring responses they don't. They already know what they are going to do, this is just a formality.

 

Ultimately MS makes money off every XBOX game sold, and nothing off windows games they didn't publish, hence they'd much rather we gamed on XBOX. Either they are going to have another crack at taking Valves slice of the pie with the windows store, or to discourage PC gaming in the hope of many of us switching to XBOX. They won't succeed, but it doesn't mean they have our interests at heart, or that they won't inconvenience us along the way.

Anything which is sold on the Windows Store, they get a 30% cut of.

[manikyath]

19 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Anything which is sold on the Windows Store, they get a 30% cut of.

both IOS and android are a 50% cut IIRC.

[Bouzoo]

That's a convenient timing, a day after they retracted their statement. Oh yeah right, that's one way to make pc gaming even more great. 

[.spider.]

I do not believe Microsoft anymore and I also do not believe that they care about their customers. 

[Scruffy90]

I just want to them to give us steam releases and crossplay without forcing another gfwl and disable auto updating.

[laminutederire]

4 minutes ago, Scruffy90 said:

I just want to them to give us steam releases and crossplay without forcing another gfwl and disable auto updating.

Ahah games for Windows live, what a wonderful piece of software, I gave up on replaying GTA IV on my PC because of that!

[AresKrieger]

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

Yay! See! Everybody hating on Windows 10 can stop cos they care about making it better.

When I get an OS I want the OS to be the product being sold not me, they don't care about making it better for the consumer they want to release a bunch of good sounding PR before the 29th since they have some quota they want to reach to appease the suits in charge.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Way way way back before DX10 was a thing...

They said the same thing, lets make PC gaming great, that they were going to focus on it from within Windows.

Numerous times since then, every few years  (originally going back all the way to probably 2004-2005)

And.....

 

Here we are today.. same shit again... different questionnaire.

[AresKrieger]

6 minutes ago, laminutederire said:

Ahah games for Windows live, what a wonderful piece of software, I gave up on replaying GTA IV on my PC because of that!

Yep, I still can't get that game to work legit, and that is also why I hate DRM (though windows live went above and beyond to suck ass)

[laminutederire]

2 minutes ago, AresKrieger said:

Yep, I still can't get that game to work legit, and that is also why I hate DRM (though windows live went above and beyond to suck ass)

Thank god it can be bought at 5€ on steam!

Imagine a 60€ game which doesn't work because Microsoft can't make games for pc?

[LAwLz]

Fun fact: The survey asks how many of your games are pirated. It also asks where you live, how much you play and so on. Sounds more like a honeypot or marketing survey than feedback to improve Windows.

 

 

 

1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

Yay! See! Everybody hating on Windows 10 can stop cos they care about making it better.

Asking questions and making things better are two completely separate things. I wonder if they will do the same thing they did with the Windows 10 feedback system, and funnel most of the feedback right down into the recycling bin.

 

 

Edit: Going though the survey right now and so many of these questions doesn't make any sense. Some of them seem tailored towards a young teenager who is going to buy a prebuilt Alienware computer...