Games for Windows rep "tweets" on Activision CEO comments
On Monday we reported that in a Financial Times chat with Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, he revealed his support for having more PC gaming rigs set up to be played on big screen TVs. This promotion of PC gaming apparently, for whatever reason, caused an official rep from Microsoft's Games For Windows division to get up on the wrong side of the bed.
In a post on the official "WindowsGamer" Twitter page the rep, known as "Walker ^WA", posted up a note saying, "Acti supports PC gaming? Is it April already?" We are assuming "April" is in reference to April Fools Day. In any case, it seems a bit odd that a Games For Windows rep would be critical of any promotion of PC gaming which in theory Microsoft should be supporting. And Activision Blizzard just happens to be home to perhaps the biggest PC game in the world (World of Warcraft) with StarCraft II waiting for its release later this month. It has also released quite a number of other PC games in recent years including two last month (Transformers War For Cybertron and Singularity) Microsoft, on the other hand, hasn't published a retail PC game since Gears of War in December 2007 (although Fable III is due for the PC in October).
[Via PC Gamer]
In a post on the official "WindowsGamer" Twitter page the rep, known as "Walker ^WA", posted up a note saying, "Acti supports PC gaming? Is it April already?" We are assuming "April" is in reference to April Fools Day. In any case, it seems a bit odd that a Games For Windows rep would be critical of any promotion of PC gaming which in theory Microsoft should be supporting. And Activision Blizzard just happens to be home to perhaps the biggest PC game in the world (World of Warcraft) with StarCraft II waiting for its release later this month. It has also released quite a number of other PC games in recent years including two last month (Transformers War For Cybertron and Singularity) Microsoft, on the other hand, hasn't published a retail PC game since Gears of War in December 2007 (although Fable III is due for the PC in October).
[Via PC Gamer]
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MS really needs to get its act together before they crtique other people regarding PC support. But that is not to say I believe in Blactivision, since I have already told my friends that all that, with Bobby at the helm, all Battle.net games are going to turn in to monthly subscriptions eventually. If not for Starcraft2, then at least for Diablo3 and beyond.Posted at 4:07PM on Jul 6th 2010 by Unknown



HAHAHAHAHA if Microsoft really cared about PC gaming they would drop that shitty Games for windows and adopt Steam as the official windows gaming platform. Imagine if Valve and Microsoft got together and Supported Steam for windows 8?
Or how about Microsoft put out a couple PC games before they sling insults?
BTW not supporting Acti either because maybe I as a PC gamer don't want to play PC games from my couch. I love my little command center here in my gaming room.Posted at 3:22PM on Jul 6th 2010 by Dero