And soon it won't even get updates
Interesting. But about MS 'wants'... what they want is often so far from reality, its downright crazy. That started with bundling DX12 with Windows 10, look where we are today. We also vividly remember GFWL... They 'want' to unify Xbox and PC platforms, or at least to some degree bring them together... they 'want' crossplatform. They want all sorts of things but the practical outcome is always a major letdown. They 'wanted' an Xbox bundled only with Kinect and forcing an always online requirement. Woopsie... And what happened to that Windows 10 anti-cheat measure? TruePlay? Its just another example in the near infinite list of MS and gaming failures. It was best described, I think, by the first measure gamers had to do when installing Windows 10: disable the
Xbox Game DVR to prevent your games from crashing. That goes right up there in the top 3 along with using Internet Explorer so you can download another browser
MS should not want anything, they should be serving the market to their best ability and stop trying to redirect it all the time. That is what they're
quite good at. DirectX is still a decent API. Windows is still a decent OS. Stop messing about and let us game