Age of Empires: Definitive Edition is out February 20, bringing again the traditional RTS with 4K visuals, UI enhancements, and adjustments to issues like pathfinding to make the sport extra palatable in a contemporary context. But there’s been one main sticking level hampering potential pleasure for the title: it’s unique to Microsoft’s unpopular Windows 10 Store.
For their half, Microsoft say they’d like to have their first-party video games on Steam, however Valve are conserving that from taking place. That’s in line with an interview with Microsoft producer Jörg Neumann with German website GameStar.de. Neumann says (through Google Translate) that they don’t view the Windows 10 retailer as a platform, however slightly Xbox Live – and there’s presently “no solution” to get Microsoft’s infrastructure on Steam.
Neumann says they need to guarantee persons are in a position to simply play collectively, and so they’ve determined the one means to ensure of that’s Xbox Live. Getting the Microsoft community working on Steam “depends less on us than on other people.”
Other Microsoft-published video games have come to Steam, nevertheless it’s been a clumsy journey to get there. Killer Instinct offered cross-play between Steam and Xbox Live – each on console and Windows 10 – however not in ranked matches. Quantum Break additionally launched on Steam, however that sport was notably absent any multiplayer options.
Other writer’s third-party platforms, like Ubisoft’s Uplay, are enabled on Steam and, notably, Microsoft’s Xbox Live-adjacent Games for Windows Live platform used to see many releases on Valve’s storefront.
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