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I'm still in the "Microsoft can fuck off and die" camp, so I don't imagine I'll be using this.
A fair stance to take
Guys even if you hate microslop, this is not a bad thing to have the option for those who do use it. If it gets more people over to Linux I only see that as a good thing.
Wow! I am like... not interested at all. It's microslop, I wouldn't touch it even if it were free.
Yeah, but that would mean giving money to Microsoft. Pass.
There was a time where that would have mattered.
Microsoft will break things faster than hobby devs can keep up.
Are you saying that they'll intentionally sabotage attempts to play Microsoft store/game pass games outside of their platform due to malice, or that they'll constantly break their own systems through incompetence and vibe coding?
Yes. And Yes.
Why bother? They're shuttering most of the developers they bought up
Even though I don't use gamepass, it's not a bad thing to have the option.
to be honest i dont care about game passes, i prefer to buy my games on gog so i can have them drm free. But this is indeed a cool thing. A lot of people still dualboot for these xbox gamepass things.
I hate Microslop just like anyone else, but the Forza Horizon games currently have me have a dualboot system. (Got them ALL in the xbox store)
Can't wait to give Microsoft ever more money for not owning my games. Profit off of me harder, daddy.
Too little, way too late.
Agreed, no amount of money or effort id endorse this. Especially when you easily spend 30-50$ to build a decent indie and non indie game list just for your steamdeck!
I'd do this if it meant I could finally play Halo 5, but I'd likely unsubscribe immediately after. And I've been eyeing Phantom Dust on the Windows Store for a while.
Game Pass doesn't feel worth installing/dual-booting Windows over, so I appreciate that this project exists. In a roundabout way, I think this could lessen folks' dependence on Microsoft in the long run.