Whatever live in your little bubble.

WebGL Microsoft ignoring it was a whole different story.

Clearly you don't see 7 major video game engines will be supporting DirectX 12 including VALVe with Source 2.

So continue to ignore.

Same story. MS lost the browser wars and were hit by the sledge hammer named competition. Now they fall in line and instead of sick lock-in run to implement open standards in the browser. Same will happen with general graphics with time. As soon as MS lose lock-in methods in some area, they actually start doing something useful for everyone there. Competition is a good medicine for them.

I never mentioned anything about DX12 vs Vulkan. I said you're fooling yourself if you don't think cross platform matters. How many of those 7 engines you've mentioned are going to be cross platform?

I don't know what Bing uses and I don't care what Bing uses, but it looks like Bing is starting to gain momentum from google.com.

But yeah good job on ignoring that VALVe is adding DirectX 12 support to Source 2 in probably 2016 and the 6 other major video game engines that will support DirectX 12.
All of them will be cross platform supporting both DirectX 12 and Vulkan.

Still does not change the fact that all of them are supporting DirectX 12.

DX is useless outside MS systems. And MS systems overall percentage is declining. Mobile systems now grow like mushrooms. And Vulkan will be used there, no doubt. It will affect its usage on the desktop as well. There is no point for developers to waste time supporting multiple APIs when one can work well.

Anyway, I think it already went long enough into APIs off-topic ;)

Keep dreaming. I am done responding to this topic until May 2016.

Sure, come back and check out how Vulkan is doing then :) MS lost this one. Mostly thanks to AMD and Valve.

I was more pointing to the idea that any logical line of thinking one can use to justify DRM should break down dramatically over time. Regardless of how it all plays out when something first hits the streets, it seems like it would be easier to convince someone to let go of the DRM on something that is several years old and has multiple sequels, than something new. The fear never seems to go away though. At least not until something absurd like 10 years has gone by.

And someone that doesn't buy something on release because it's not DRM-free still could buy it in the future should it be made available as such. Any loss in sales would be due to the value of the game having substantially declined between the two version releases. That may or may not be what you meant.

Yeah, it's easier to approach them with that argument. However the fear is still highly irrational. Which is just a weird thing for suits who are supposed to calculate money instead of having irrational fears.

Yeah, the value is either reduced, or lost altogether if that potential buyer simply isn't that interested in older releases. Either way they degrade sales potential.

May I get some links for Vulkan, since a quick google search only gave me the announcements? Quite interested to see what has been revealed so far.

I still cannot believe I did not get the original Bioshock from humble DRM free.

If there was, you'd more than likely never hear an official word before 2K's arrival (at least not from GOG). Furthermore, before Bioshock Infinite would even have a chance of coming here, Bioshock 1+2 would have to be released first.

Huh? Then why don't I see it in my library?

'coz u so addict to the STEAM you ain't ever loggin' out, yo
Do you want it?

I think it's unlikely it'll become DRM-free as it's most likely was ported to linux so that it could natively run on SteamOS.

(Likely. UnlikelBLEARGH. Word salad, I know.)