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A gaming giant hits another growth spurt. Microsoft now owns Fallout, Doom, Wolfenstein, and more.
Personally I think they just join the grey area of gaming that gets frowned upon by the FOSS world but still played by the gaming community in general. Microsoft brings more to the table for these studios. I'm curious to see where things go from here.
@lee8oi I used to play a lot of Skyrim. It's been years since I've played, but it still makes me sad to see that game go to Microsoft.
@mike I'm not sad as much as I'm surprised. To me the gaming world was always ruled by proprietary games and capitalism. But this was a huge purchase with some big name games. Microsoft released an impressive rebuild of Minecraft. I'm curious what they will bring to these other games. Would be nice if they brought their whole Xbox lineup to Linux.
@lee8oi That would be cool, but I have to admit that I'm more than a little concerned about the presence of those games on Steam. Most, if not all, will already work on Linux with Steam's Proton. Microsoft removing them from Steam could cost Linux gamers that availability.
@mike I'm not sure they care to remove games from existing services or change the games in any way that hinder their existing adoption. Like with Minecraft they didnt do away with Linux support or anything. On a side note I really need to check out Steams Proton sometime.
@mike So far MS tries to encourage the existing efforts by the studios and maybe help them succeed where they might be falling short. It's more of a teaming up rather than swallowing the studios and shitting out more MS rebranded products. SO FAR anyways.
