The company is promising that if you buy one of the games through Amazon via the links on their page, then they will send you for free their initial release of compatibility software that will let you"run these Windows Fista titles on Windows XP," they claim.
Said Falling Leaf Systems CEO Brian Thomason, "first [Microsoft] claim that it was impossible to implement DirectX 10 compatibility atop Windows XP, and now they also want us to believe that they couldn't successfully launch two DirectX 9 based titles on XP either. We plan to expose both theories as patently false."
We're not sure if the software will work as planned, or how Microsoft might try to prevent the games from going online. The expected shipment date is "within a few months," according to their press release; the pre-order page estimates late July.
Live sucks on Windows but is great on Xboxes. If was implemented properly on the PC it would also be good but then there is the greater chance of selfish idiots hacking it on the PC destroying the experience for everyone else.
Dog Pants wrote:You have to pay for it don't you? This fact alone makes it unappealing to me, seeing as I can play similar games for free without Live.
Yes and in the PC world it's mostly redundant as there are other services and applications that already do job that Live tries to. But on the Xbox it's definitely worth the £40/year. If MS can tweak and secure the Live service to suit Windows then it could be worth it but at the moment it's probably not.
Fear wrote:I can see no reason to limit DirectX 10 to Fista other than to horse people to upgrade.
What other possible reason is there?
Nice one Falling Leaf...
This is why not many people (more like none) are developing games for Fista.
From a business sense a huge portion of the market has 2000/XP compatible machines, and a tiny tiny fraction have Fista, let alone anything made for fista will not (supposedly) work on XP. I certainly know which OS I'd be chucking hundreds of thousdands (maybe millions) of development money at if I'd want to make some dosh back.
Halo 2, Shadowrun made playable on XP
Falling Leaf Studios is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. What has caused them ire? Microsoft making Halo 2 and Shadowrun Fista-only. So they decided to make them XP-compatible.
