Steam Version required!

How dare Microsoft give you an option to play Xbox exclusive games on your PC!! Shame on them for publishing games that rely on their network servers and matchmaking on their own games platform!!

@tehhngm I understand your frustration, but it is an Xbox Live game. Xbox Live is an integral part of the matchmaking. You played the alpha using Xbox Live.
The solution would be for Microsoft to support XBL where you live, not to put the game on Steam.

@the-lion-turtle but there are Xbox games that have crossplatform with steam. None of them being exclusives. However, all Msoft talked about the past year was cross platform play. They continually pelted Sony as the bad guy but what have they done to actually promote it? They need to end Exclusives imo, or at the very least make even their own titles timed and eventually release on Steam. Windows Store sucks and it's not a huge chunk of the PC gaming market.

@crude-jc-gamer Yep i know, but if the game is good and not on a c**p platform where there will be more players that doesn't matter for me.

@lucky-monkee Was trying to stay polite about my thoughts on the Windows Store.
Price isn't a problem until the game is fun and good.
The platform matters a lot in reality. A lot of people aren't looking h24 what are the new games coming out, that's why Steam is something important. You're looking for a new game? Let's go on Steam. That has become a reflex for many people, including me.

@realbadhor5e Yes & No. Player base will be split, that's true, but there will be much more players. Players that wouldn't even have known the game if it wasn't on Steam. Games selling much more on Steam than other platforms, it's a fact. So people that wouldn't have bought the game in the first place can't count as the "player base".

Forgot to mention one important fact about Steam: friend list!
That might seem weird, cause adding a new friend on an other platform or game is not hard at all (well normally), but all platform just split your contact all arround. How many times when i was playing to a game i received a pop-up "PlayerX is playing to this game" and then i go on the store and look what is that game about. Or friends asking me if the game i'm playing is good.
Not to mention the fact that you aren't speaking to all your "friend list" and sometimes when you see one player in your friend list playing the same game than you, you ask him to group up, talk & play with him again.
Using a platform that no one use if they can avoid it (speaking about gaming here) doesn't help the game at all. Even Uplay games like Assassin's Creed are available on Steam, even if when you open the game Uplay opens.

I think the fact that xbox and pc owners can play together is a great feature of the windows store and when steam launched it was worse than the windows store. So hopefully they also add friend lists and stuff in the future

@painsanta what makes using the window store so bad?

I don't agree with you. First of all, It's Xbox and Windows 10 platform game with play anywhere.Steam has a big community but I don't understand why people need to stack in it!

Although I like having most of my library in one place, it really does not matter to me. If the game is good enough I will play it - simples!

I believe that the main reason the game is only in Microsoft store and not on steam at the moment is because in order to play the game you need to use a Microsoft account. Your Microsoft account is normally what you use to login to your computer on windows 10 when you have fully setup your account on your pc, It's also what you need to login to for Xbox live.
To sum it up, I don't think you need to connect to Xbox Live servers to play, it's more that you need to connect to Microsoft servers.

I really don't know why Windows Store gets so much flak. I literally have never had an issue with it. I like steam...but WS acts just the same as steam. Do not see what the problem is here.

Windows version is more secure and impossible to crack in some way, so this is why the company decided to hang on to Windows and Xbox store, but we cant say, there might be steam version as well.

@ztruxranger Talking of exclusivity when dealing with Win 10/Xbox is a bit confusing right now. It makes more sense to say it is a "Xbox Live" exclusive - as it works on the platforms that support Xbox Live (the Xbox One family of consoles and the Xbox App on Windows 10).
Xbox is moving away from offering games only on their console with the "Play Anywhere" support, because their stated mentality is that they support their players better by giving them support across devices.

@drbullhammer said in Steam Version required!:

@tehhngm said in Steam Version required!:

@erinom3 Well I don't think they need to be 'fair' or something, just saying that if you can sell the game to 200 people, why choose to sell it to only 40?
I'm just trying to get some feedback, I could be stupid.
And I'd like if you could link me that explanation or something, thanks.

Keep in mind that when they decide about availability in countries, they're considering population and sales figures.

There are probably licensing and legal considerations as well. As a merchant, I'd want to sell my stuff in as many places as possible. If they aren't selling somewhere, I'm sure it is a complicated decision.

I am sort of in the same boat (no pun intended but still)

I agree it would be a good idea to place this game on steam but as someone in the post already said it most likely wont happen due to it being owned by a Microsoft run/owned/partner company.

In the past i have and others i know refused to buy anything from the windows store (mainly games due to lack of decent support among other issues) but this game has me thinking maybe i take the chance with this game.

Me and my brother played the hell out of the Tech Alpha and loved it more than any game we have played this past year, So based on that i cant miss the chance to own this game based on it only being on Windows Store/Xbox.

Given the option to buy it on steam even at a higher price i would opt for the steam purchase as its the main platform i get most of my games, also it is the given platform for 80%+ of PC gamers.

Back to OP i wouldn't say it is required to be on steam, BUT i have to admit that it would be a lot more popular and would sell alot more copies if the game was on steam or basically any other platform than Windows Store.

@ztruxranger Agreed. But I think they are working toward making all of their "first party" games Play Anywhere now, and getting out of the "exclusives" market, so to say.

@ztruxranger And most of those will probably be able to be played on both consoles and Win 10 PC.

Honestly it could be worse the game could be exclusive to the xbox, I think the people at Microsoft have come a long way from the big headedness and anti consumer practices that dogged the company for years yeah they still have a long ways to go to get back the trust of consumers but at least we get a choice between xbox and pc unlike so many ps4 exclusives if the game not being on steam is a deal breaker the game probably isn't for you but by all mean always voice your opinion that's the only way these companies will ever stop with their anti consumer b.s. that treat loyal paying customers like open check books.

Like many others, yeah, I'd like a Steam version. But like others have said, how many PC gamers have got Steam, UPlay, Origin, Battle.net, Epic Games Launcher... What's the issue with 1 more that acts no different to the others? You buy, you download, the WS will keep it up to date, and you play...

Having played the last Tech Alpha, I almost certainly will be purchasing SoT. Me and my mates, of whom we had a mix of PC and XBox, had an absolute barrel of laughs playing this, the whole cross-platform experience was flawless. Some of the experiences included putting one of them in the brig, while it was under-water, only for him to die and upon respawning, came straight back into the brig and died again!

Long story short, I'm not bothered if it's WS only, it worked fine, and I'm hooked!

@erikinthebakery You do know that Microsoft own Xbox right? You're making out it's a big deal, but it's not.

@ztruxranger Absolutely!!

The only downside I've ever seen is PC players getting salty due to the games not being on Steam as well ;)