Microsoft PLAY: Xbox Games on Windows 8

I thought the games for Windows 8/RT would come much faster than they have. The selection isn't great right now and what's more concerning is the Xbox LIVE games situation on Windows Phone. The only new titles coming out are Nokia exclusives.

Why must we pay for Xbox 360 Games, Windows 8 Xbox Games and Windows Phone Xbox Games? The titles we buy on one should give you the other versions... :/

I'm disappointed by the fact that all of the new cool apps are so convoluted to find.

If it's difficult for me to find and purchase, it's going to be less likely I'll spend lots. If I'm not spending lots, developers won't develop lots. If developers won't develop lots, it'll kill the platform.

Please Microsoft - Make it easy for me to find and buy the cool things.

Going into games, scrolling to xbox games, (not realizing that 'xbox 360 games store' was a clickable link because it looks like other non-clickable text), and then searching for games, that can be purchased from the place I would have looked for them in the first place, is not a simple process.

Is there ever going to be a way to install & play games through the Games Tile that are more like traditional games? Full retail things, not just arcade games.

Microsoft has always been horrible at branding. PLAY is just confusing, even to long time Xbox LIVE users. And I've been with Xbox LIVE on Xbox, Xbox 360, PC, and Windows Phone. Even the all caps "LIVE" branding is weird. They even tried using the LIVE branding with Windows Live. It's all these half-hearted attempts that are later abandoned that confuse users.

Make it simple. Just add "Xbox Live" to whatever platform the game that earned that status is on. "Windows 8 Xbox Live." "Windows Phone Xbox Live." Simple, easy to understand. It only gets to be a mouthful when you get to the consoles. "Xbox 360 Xbox Live" or "Xbox 720 Xbox Live" sounds kooky but it's accurate and users will just shorten it to the nickname "360 Xbox Live."

But most importantly, if games earn that "Xbox Live" status, it should be a mark of quality. Microsoft, especially Microsoft Studios, has dropped the ball on this in mobile.

I don't get why they'd call it PLAY when they've already got a well-known branding for Xbox Live arcade and games in general. PLAY just complicates it even more, and sounds too close the Google Play.

Would love to see geoDefense Storm ported to Win8/RT Metro (already exists on iOS/Android/WP8)

Would REALLY love to see "Orbital" (my favorite iOS game) ported to WP8 and Win8/RT... dunno if that will ever happen.

REALLY want to see not just more XBox Arcade games on Win8, but more WP8 games on Win8 (and vice-versa).

I'm kind of disappointed that games like Cut The Rope and Angry Birds StarWars don't seem to "remember" progress across platforms. I thought that was the whole point of XBox Live integration... if I finish the first ten levels on my phone, and then switch to my SurfaceRT, I should be able to start on level eleven. Instead I find myself having to replay the game on all platforms.

That needs to be fixed.

If you could purchase on one and play it on all with cloud based saved games, that would be a win in my book. I own ilomilo and fruit ninja on my xbox 360 and they expect me to pay all over again to play it on my pc! You gotta be kidding me!

In my opinion, with so many people switching over to tablets, macs and even linux (don't laugh, many new distros are really good like ubuntu and linux mint) you'd think Microsoft would jump and the chance to give people a reason to stay with windows.

The best reason I would stay with windows is if they let us buy the game on one device and play it on all devices. Kind of like how steam let's you purchase the game once but still play it on multiple PCs as long as you're logged in.

I know I might be being stupid here but, I uninstalled Xbox games from the app tile page by mistake. How do I reinstall it so the Xbox games tile reappears!?? Sorry techno biff on this new windows!

I definitely would still want to play windows games than playing Xbox games on my pc. Don't take this wrongly, because I personally love the idea of having an Xbox game on pc but the fact that windows game will still be better performing on pc than with an xbox game on pc, and besides pc gives more value for your money not to mention the quality of games you are getting graphically-wise. Take for example this Dead Space 3 game on pc. It looks better played on than on xbox.