Gears of War franchise on Steam?

[ComradeDiamond]

If the entire Halo franchise was released on Steam, Maybe it's time GOW will be released too? What do you think people, I dislike the newer GOW games, I much more prefer the older ones, 1 to 3, Heck even judgment.

[Snapjak]

Never know, MS has been bringing more and more to Steam in addition to releasing games on game pass.

Personally, I think it'd be great if they brought over all of it.

[Crazy Tiger]

GloomyDiamond původně napsal:

Maybe it's time GOW will be released too?

Ask the publisher, they can tell you whether they plan to.

Personally I'm not interested in them. Played the first one, but wasn't entertaining enough for me to finish it. But for other people who like them, would always be good if they got sold on Steam.

[crunchyfrog]

Well, you can never say never.

However there is one mitigating factor here. While both Halo and Gears of War are MS franchises, GOW is also the realm of Epic Games as they originally developed it.

And guess who has a competing store?

[ComradeDiamond]

Yeah.. Guessed so

[Amon]

Wasn't Gears of War a bungie game? Before they collapsed into what is now epic? If I remember Cliffy B was most proud of his gears work before moving on. Not sure when the deal with MS for publishing was. Was it when Unreal 2? Or tournament?

[Crazy Tiger]

Amon původně napsal:

Wasn't Gears of War a bungie game? Before they collapsed into what is now epic? If I remember Cliffy B was most proud of his gears work before moving on. Not sure when the deal with MS for publishing was. Was it when Unreal 2? Or tournament?

No, never a Bungie game, a pure Epic Games game. Bungie also never collapsed into Epic.

The deal with MS was because the games got released on the 360. Eventually Microsoft purchased the rights after GoW3.

Unreal 2 was published by Atari and Infogrames, if I'm not mistaken. None of the Tournament games were published by Microsoft.

[crunchyfrog]

Amon původně napsal:

Wasn't Gears of War a bungie game? Before they collapsed into what is now epic? If I remember Cliffy B was most proud of his gears work before moving on. Not sure when the deal with MS for publishing was. Was it when Unreal 2? Or tournament?

How on earth did Bungie collapse somehow into Epic if they still exist?

No, I think you've got your wires well and truly crossed here somehow. GOW has NEVER had anything to do with Bungie.

As to Unreal 2 or Tournament, I'm not sure what relevance that is.

[ShadowAngel]

Amon původně napsal:

Wasn't Gears of War a bungie game? Before they collapsed into what is now epic? If I remember Cliffy B was most proud of his gears work before moving on.

Cliff Bleszinski never even worked for Bungie. He started in 1992 for Epic and remained there until 2012 (He worked on the first 3 Gears as Lead Designer). Then he left to create the monumental failure that was Lawbreakers that drove him out of the gaming industry.
He's doing Theater Productions now, Seemingly that is so bad that he recently basically cried to be hired as an "Advisor" for Gears of War again.

[jestersdance]

crunchyfrog původně napsal:

Well, you can never say never.

However there is one mitigating factor here. While both Halo and Gears of War are MS franchises, GOW is also the realm of Epic Games as they originally developed it.

And guess who has a competing store?

Microsoft purchased the rights to GoW from Epic and the series is managed by The Coalition (owned by MS) now, so what Epic does is irrelevant to the situation.

[WhiteKnight]

2, 3 & Judgement were never ported to PC. If MS to remake them it would be great. Not all Halo is on steam though. It's missing Halo Wars 2.

[76561198966103141]

this would be super cool to have

[Amon]

Crazy Tiger původně napsal:

Amon původně napsal:

Wasn't Gears of War a bungie game? Before they collapsed into what is now epic? If I remember Cliffy B was most proud of his gears work before moving on. Not sure when the deal with MS for publishing was. Was it when Unreal 2? Or tournament?

No, never a Bungie game, a pure Epic Games game. Bungie also never collapsed into Epic.

The deal with MS was because the games got released on the 360. Eventually Microsoft purchased the rights after GoW3.

Unreal 2 was published by Atari and Infogrames, if I'm not mistaken. None of the Tournament games were published by Microsoft.

Apologies; must of been the halo franchise I was thinking of. I will have to dig up my unreal cds and check. I'm at work so won't know for a bit still.

@ crunchyfrog: settle down there mate. No need for excessive stress. It's just random musing from days gone by. The longer the teeth the more stuff from times past get glossy. Besides allot of the classics are either idtech or unreal engines that were licensed. Easy to mix and match.

[Ki11s0n3]

I wish

[crunchyfrog]

jestersdance původně napsal:

crunchyfrog původně napsal:

Well, you can never say never.

However there is one mitigating factor here. While both Halo and Gears of War are MS franchises, GOW is also the realm of Epic Games as they originally developed it.

And guess who has a competing store?

Microsoft purchased the rights to GoW from Epic and the series is managed by The Coalition (owned by MS) now, so what Epic does is irrelevant to the situation.

I never said otherwise. I said "it is in the REALM of Epic as they developed it".

Do you have clear evidence that there's no gratuity or licence payment or have they absolved every right of access in this sale?