Originally posted by Mops TENTACLE BOSS:

Originally posted by solaris32:

I would love to participate if I had a Steam key for buying it from the Windows store.

Learn your lesson, don't buy anything from the Windows Store.

Originally posted by Mops TENTACLE BOSS:

Originally posted by ☣Doomshroom☣:

That is not a valid argument, since halo wars definitive edition was first released to windows store (with no announcment about releasing on steam), it was the obvious choice to purchase it from there, to split the players from windows store and steam is not right and not the players fault.

It is a valid argument. For one, it's not the first time we have seen playerbase segregation between Win10 and Steam. Two, people are choosing to support a service that forces you to buy from a weak storefront monopolized by Microsoft which also forces you into a terrible OS, they made that compromiose because they have no standards and no sense of patience.

For the record people have been predicting Halo Wars on Steam since the beginning of the year including me. There was code referring to Steam within the game and image leaks of Halo Wars GUI referring to a Steam dependancy. It also just makes sense to bring to Steam to raise interest for Steam users in the franchise that they otherwise would not touch, so it's not hard to make a hypothesis and have some standards as opposed to immediately jumping onto a terrible OS and storefront with a bad track record just because you are impatient and careless.

That's not an obvious choice, that's stupidity, it is COMPLETELY their fault.

Originally posted by Mops TENTACLE BOSS:

Originally posted by ☣Doomshroom☣:

How is it the player/buyers complete fault when the company one is supporting by spending their money on a game franchise they love and have grown up with, then get to know it has been released on a far more popular game selling platform, both still being on PC, splitting the player base, one having dead multiplayer and the other a good chance of creating a more active player base

That you argue that there has been "signs" for the release of Halow wars on steam is just plain stupid, everyone is not as active in looking into every single detail about one game, no matter how much you like it...

I am not saying that everyone who bought it at windows store should get a steam key i am saying that not having crossplay only splitts the player base as we can already see happening in the comments of these pinned discussions, and yet you still claim it is the players fault for it. Why?

I'm noticing that this time around you are specifying the world "complete" to help shift some blame from the consumers, and you are deliberately misconstruing my point to say that I exclusively blame the Windows 10 consumers for the lack of cross platform, which I never did. Ultimately they chose to buy the product from a store owned by a company that has an extremely dodgy track record for quality assurance and PC support with it's Xbox titles, especially Halo.

They bought it knowing of the Windows 10 restriction, the lack of Steam support, the requirement that initially you could only obtain it through a preorder of a far more expensive game, and they did it anyway because of hype. In recent days other games on the Windows Store have also had cross platform troubles, and reports of low player bases have been frequent since before Halo Wars 2 even came out. The information is there, but the problem is people dont give a ♥♥♥♥ about the information until it effects them. If they choose to not do their research, they are going into the investment blind, whatever consequence comes from that in the present or later down the line is entirely on them, because they are the ones purchasing a potentially flawed product, which Halo Wars DE on the Windows Store was from the moment it was made Windows 10 and Windows Store exclusive.

Nobody is making them buy the game, they are choosing to buy it from an inferior platform, and they are doing so at their own risk, and the lack of cross-platform support, and the possibility of a more refined version of the game hitting Steam when sales died down are all risks they took when they jumped on that purchase. It's also just common sense that an old game like this wouldn't retain hype forever, that the sales would die down, and that like other Halo side games it would follow the trend of eventually coming to older OS's.

All of these grievances could be avoided if these consumers actually had standards and didn't go and blindly purchase something because it says "Halo" on it whilst being wilfully ignorant of the consequences.

Originally posted by Holy Head:

Is it known whether this branch fixes the cursor problem?

Originally posted by 343 Industries:

A new update is being pushed to the Beta Branch today that includes fixes to the audio issues some players have reported as well as the disappearing cursor issue. Additionally, players on the Beta Branch can now play with/find games with players on the retail version.