Is it Microsoft or MicroSoft?

Micro$oft, maybe.

I don't see how that rules gog out, especially for Microsoft's older catalog of games.

It is Microsoft, I like to spell their name MicroSoft on the stock market they are MSFT.

It just means they're prioritizing their store and Steam for now, and because they move SUPER slow already with older PC stuff it likely means nothing coming to GOG for a very long time.

Why would they release back catelogs here when they just announced Xbox Pass for PC and Xbox Pass Ultimate. For those that own consoles and a PC they can now have a single sub that pays for game pass and live sub in a single price, I wouldnt be suprised the next OS will be sub since majority of companies now moving towards sub/cloud gaming.

Offline play will be like old consoles (soon to be old OS's) same how offline music and movies / TV is now.

And the way things are going old games are a gold mine. (Look at classic games these days how they are bringing in so much hype its usually a selling point to jump on subscription services with the "Backlog catelogs")

Microsoft is never going to make Windows a monthly subscription Operation System (OS) for the average customer.

They know most people will never pay for that.

Just like not all movies and music is monthly subscription and you can still purchase movies on Blu-Ray discs and music on CD's.

what exactly is xbox pass? also xbox never had games like freelancer and that is not available digitally still. Isnt W10 the last os supposedly? MS would have said no straight up if they didnt have plans for gog later on in the future.

its a game subscription.

They also have plans with nintendo? doesnt mean it will sell games directly on the eShop. It means if you have a xbox pass you can play xbox games on the switch via the streaming service. It means GOG integration with Microsoft the same they have with Discord which is awesome. I cannot wait to use GOG 2.0 to manage all these services now because its starting to be fragmented.

Its going to be like how netflix is battling to keep content on the service the more content they loose and isnt exclusive the higher chance people will unsub. People want to klnow that if they sub the catelog is big to justify paying even if they are not even going to touch any of the games.

So those old classic games you'd better off trying to have that part of your subscription as a exclusive because it gives X amount of people to subscribe to your service.

Ubisoft is starting to do it with Ubiplay+ with "100 games" catelog. Smart since they stop selling on steam, They get a kick money from Epic Games so they just put it on there anyways for the funding and they have a subscription service that allows all games (including new) with all DLC with a single subscription that cost approx 2.5 standard games with no DLC a year.

In any case I tweeted Phil (who seems like a good guy and sometimes replies to folks), politely encouraging him to let MS give GOG a chance at Freelancer and old MS games; maybe it could have been worded better but it is what it is. You can add your voice too if you want. https://twitter.com/tytbone/status/1140110169428418561

But why partnering up if not to release something? DRM free Win10? :P

I doubt it will be about the same type of releases they plan with Steam but it would be weird if not for at least some of their classics aka the before mentioned Freelancer.

Partnering up to basically let Galaxy 2 get info (achievements, friend list, etc.) from XBox, I think.

At least they are talking...
Now it's up to GoG to convince them that it would be best to let GoG do the compatibility work for the old games, saving them the time and effort, and release those old games on both platforms.

Please tell me very long time doesn't mean a year or more?

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