A couple years later, we covered a report showing that “ the Windows Store’s ‘new and rising’ apps are actually ‘old and stationary.” In a report card on the Microsoft Store a year after its debut, I wrote, “The Windows Store still simply isn’t useful enough to replace the desktop, nor can it compete with Apple’s or Google’s vast app ecosystem. My colleague Jared Newman penned, “ Why Microsoft needs to solve the Windows Store ‘crap app’ crisis before Windows 9” all the way back in 2014. There’s still a massive pile of trash apps available.
It’s hard to discover apps beyond the major ones, and managing DLC for games you’ve acquired can be tricky. The Microsoft Store is ugly and obtuse right now. The Xbox app doesn’t suffer from the same issues when you subscribe to the fantastic Xbox Game Pass for PC service, so hopefully this rumored overhaul follows its lead. The Store app’s woes directly cost Microsoft hundreds of dollars I would have spent on Forza Horizon 4 and other games. After that, I had to follow our advice: Serious gamers should avoid the Microsoft Store. Gears of War 4 chainsawed my desire to use Windows 10’s Store app ever again.ĭealing with those hassles aren’t what I’m looking for in games I paid full retail price for. I personally swore off the Microsoft Store a few years ago after the fourth time it forced me to download Gears of War 4’s full, massive 100GB install for mysterious yet frustrating reasons, right around the same time it refused to allow me to move Forza Horizon 3 to another PC using local backups. Its game download servers have been notoriously unreliable. It launched with several key features missing, many of which have been added over time.
The Microsoft Store has been a disaster for PC gamers. That last bit hits home for me particularly. (Windows Central has a fantastic record with Microsoft leaks, however.) The publication says the overhauled Microsoft Store will be updated monthly with new features and fixes after arriving this fall, and “should also provide a more stable download and install experience for large apps and games.” “Microsoft is working on a brand-new Store app for Windows 10 that will introduce a modern and fluid user interface, as well as bring changes to the policies that govern what kind of apps can be submitted to the store by developers,” Windows Central reports, citing anonymous sources. But nearly a decade after its launch, and after several years of almost active neglect, there may- may-be hope on the horizon.
It’s so terrible that I’ve refused to use it for years, spurned by its crap-tastic mobile-centric curation and disastrous PC game management features. It remained terrible when the name changed to align with Microsoft’s now-defunct physical stores. It was terrible when it debuted as the “Windows Store” alongside Windows 8. Windows 10’s Microsoft Store has always been terrible.
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