MCCPC

Why is Microsoft releasing MCC on Windows this year?

For starters, if you *really* wanted MCC, you've bought an Xbone by now. It's been out for six months, there are 100 maps, all the main series games, beta access, all that jazz. ODST is being added to MCC sometime soon too. If you *want* it, you have it, simple as that, unless you don't want a console. The game being on the console isn't changing that. By now, you have it, or you don't.

So why now? Why would they port it now?

1. m$ wants money. "No shit Sherlock" but why release on PC if they can sell a console with the game?
	On launch, m$ was selling consoles at roughly $20 gain. Since then, there have been MASSIVE price drops from the console. They don't make money off this thing anymore. The money they're getting is from XBL and maybe some of their games. Moving consoles isn't an ingenious money making scheme anymore. You know what's super fucking cheap? Porting a game from the xbone and selling it at roughly 90% profit.

2. They've been dropping hints.
	m$ is selling a mouse with Chief on it. "Wow, this is literally the biggest shit piece of evidence you could of suggested" Yeah okay. But why sell a mouse with a character for game that hasn't seen a release on the PC platform since 2004? 2nd hint, Windows 10 images. http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/assets/photos/win10_xbox_devices_web.jpg See how this is "PC Games" tab? See how Xbox games have a clear banner that says "Xbox" on them? See Sid Meier's Beyond Earth on that list, a game with no relation to the PC? "It's just marketing, why are you taking this seriously?" Because someone had to sit down and design this and it had to be approved. It's not some mistake, Cross Platform Play is a huge feature of Windows 10, and what would be better for this to open it than the MCC? 3rd: Halo Online. Why announce it to the states? How many f2p, p2w mmofps games can you think of that are successful in the states? Why announce a Russian exclusive to the world? To gauge interest. "How upset are they that they're not getting this? Do they want it?" Thanks to the H:O leak and modding community, we've probably done a good job showing them what we want.

I will also direct you to these three very well thought out posts:
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2dsmja/halo_is_definately_coming_to_pc_this_is_why/
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/2yo6iv/halo_is_definately_coming_to_pc_this_is_why_part_2/
http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/30q96d/halo_is_definitely_coming_to_pc_this_is_why_part_3/

Finally, I want to point out that with Windows 10, Microsoft has brought back one classic, and that's Solitare. Why not bring back another?



source:
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2013/11/microsoft-selling-xbox-one-at-a-loss.html?page=all
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/en-us/p/wireless-mobile-mouse-3500-halo-special-edition