Should have waited for steam price drop or PS4 version. It drives me insane not having fps meter and not being able to tweak graphics settings. Had no idea MS store is this bad.
Rise of the Tomb Raider in the Ukrainian Windows Store: 234UAH (~9,11USD)
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Should have waited for steam price drop or PS4 version. It drives me insane not having fps meter and not being able to tweak graphics settings. Had no idea MS store is this bad.
Transistor
Banned
Can the Windows Store version be played over a Steam Link?
Caayn
Member
I payed full price for the Windows Store version. And you know what? I don't regret it. Seeing people like you getting all upset when others buy the Windows Store version just made me wanted to post this.
flaxknuckles
Member
It definitely won't be because of $10 copies off the Windows store that's for sure. It's their fault they decided to launch on Xbox One only next to Fallout 4. And I doubt more than a smidgen of people even know about this region-switching thing.
I wasn't too serious with that post.
Otherspacing
Member
I don't use any of this, I'll happily play this version. I wouldn't be playing it if I needed to pay the Steam price anyway.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
This isn't right.
What did you click ?
Can you only click the add to cart button if you are currently on a Win 10 machine?
(ah, yep - I'm currently at work on Win 7. Oh well)
People in this thread act like RotTR is the first game to have a cheaper price in different regions.
Grow up, if you're OK with paying 60$ for this game, go on and buy it at that price. I just bought it, and frankly, I wouldn't even had bothered with it if it was not for this price tag.
So the way I'm looking at it, they actually made money off of me, when I actually had no plans to purchase ever.
Grow up, if you're OK with paying 60$ for this game, go on and buy it at that price. I just bought it, and frankly, I wouldn't even had bothered with it if it was not for this price tag.
So the way I'm looking at it, they actually made money off of me, when I actually had no plans to purchase ever.
Maintenance
Member
On the Windows Store not even for a dollar.
lol
plagiarize
Banned
I was very surprised that it let me turn on 3d vision. Even though it doesn't appear to have proper support this time. No DSR is kind of annoying but I'm not complaining about the price.Well, for one, this one prevents all third party injection and won't even allow the developer to implement a real fullscreen mode
This worked great for adding Hydro Thunder and Minecraft to steam, thanks.
Aztechnology
Member
I can't seem to create a proper desktop shortcut, how did you do it?
Edit: Nevermind I think I've got it.
IndieJones
Member
This definitely scratches my itch of wanting a game on day one but not having to give the devs/pub full price. Any other smoking deals?
Drag and dropped from start menu/all apps to desktop like said. If that doesn't work, another way is to open up file explorer and paste this into the address bar and hit enter: %windir%\explorer.exe shell:::{4234d49b-0245-4df3-b780-3893943456e1}
It will bring up all the apps, including the windows store apps. Just right click and then click create shortcut. You don't need the shortcuts on your desktop, though. I created a folder on my main game drive, copied the shortcuts there and thats where I keep the shortcuts and converted .exe files.
Then you just open notepad, add in the location of the shortcut, save it as a .bat like said and use something to convert the bat to .exe. Here's what my hydro thunder bat file looks like for reference.
"E:\WApps\Hydro Thunder Hurricane.lnk"
It's any five digits, i.e. 00000
Runs alright on High on a 970. Very high has frequent drops, though.
If you keep your location as Ukrain you can get discounts on the DLC, too - although paying 3x as much for the season pass than you do the game seems... odd.
I wouldn't have bought the game for $40 or $60 on PC - perhaps for $40 (with all DLC) on PS4 and that's a big if these holidays. The idea that this is a loss? They just gained a customer that might potentially hook up on DLC. $20 was my impulse buy price - so happens it's lower.
Easily worth it. If I could get every new game for $10 without those features I would love it.
Negotiator
Banned
$10 as a day 1 price would totally kill the retail market... and this comes from someone who prefers buying physical/retail games.
Phenomenal Flea
Member
Wow, thanks for the heads up! I don't even have a computer powerful enough to play it, but I can't turn down that kind of offer.
I hit a pretty big stick point when trying to update in order to buy the game. I kept checking for updates in settings, and even though it claimed I was on the latest version, eventually I found out I wasn't even on build 1511 (so why did it claim I was up to date?). In the end, I had to resort to downloading the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. Pretty ridiculous I had to basically reinstall my OS, but at least it didn't touch any of my files.
Hope that the prices on the Ukrainian store don't get adjusted in reaction to foreigners exploiting their low prices. That would be really unfair.
I hit a pretty big stick point when trying to update in order to buy the game. I kept checking for updates in settings, and even though it claimed I was on the latest version, eventually I found out I wasn't even on build 1511 (so why did it claim I was up to date?). In the end, I had to resort to downloading the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. Pretty ridiculous I had to basically reinstall my OS, but at least it didn't touch any of my files.
Hope that the prices on the Ukrainian store don't get adjusted in reaction to foreigners exploiting their low prices. That would be really unfair.
Aztechnology
Member
I found a bunch of malware in this file.
lol yeah, it'll definitely be because of this
Dusktildawn48
Member
still cant figure out how to buy, my buy option is greyed out.
Yes. Games from the Windows Store that have a Xbox Live banner on the app icon indicate Xbox Live functionality including achievements.
Dusktildawn48
Member
is there a way to roll back to an older version of windows 10?
iNvid02
Member
norton picked it up as a WS.Reputation.1 which means it has a low reputation score based on data from Symantecs community. I excluded it and deleted it after i finished using it. i dont think it was a legit threat
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Pejo
Member
Got in on this deal, worked without any problems. I live in CA in the US. 9 bucks for a game this new was too good to pass up. Also I get to see how bad the Windows store is going to be.
Is there any problem switching your region back after this is done? will it launch the game still?
Is there any problem switching your region back after this is done? will it launch the game still?
Dusktildawn48
Member
store has already put a bad taste in my mouth, no way of buying the game.
Phenomenal Flea
Member
I don't know about you, but I used "winver" and found out that I wasn't on build 1511. That might be the same problem you're having?
Dusktildawn48
Member
im on 10240, how do i get 1511?
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Yup, I purchased then when it started downloading, I switched back the region. Relaunched the store. Everything was fine.
Dusktildawn48
Member
is it possible that my buy button is greyed out because i dont have enough space on my main ssd?
Phenomenal Flea
Member
Ahh, this was the same problem as me, then! I mentioned it a few posts above, but I had to download the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool. Takes a bit of time, but should keep all your files the way they were.
Iced_Eagle
Member
You should just be able to run Windows Update and it will update you to the latest version.
If you aren't seeing it, you can force it by downloading the Media Creation Tool and upgrading manually (click download tool now at the bottom): https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Dusktildawn48
Member
Settings > Update software
(Might not be exactly that, but I had the same problem and just updated the software and it worked)
Dusktildawn48
Member
it worked! thank you!
ss_lemonade
Member
Sheesh, no exclusive fullscreen mode? Is this a thing with all Windows 10 apps? That might be a problem for nvidia optimus powered laptops
Yes, but it won't support any controllers you have connected to the device, just kb &mouse or the steam controller
Phreakuency
Banned
I don't think so. They are genuine concerns.
Obviously for the small price, most of us aren't bothered but I agree with Durante, Microsoft are kidding themselves if they think they aren't making a fool of themselves with the way their app store handles proper games like this.
I knew all of the limitations when I first upgraded to Windows 8 to play Hydro Thunder but didn't think MS were stupid enough to do the same with 'proper' releases.
They'll be losing a lot sales on Killer Instinct, Gears of War and whatever else they plan on releasing if they continue.
Again, price wise I'm fine because it gets me TR cheap to play through something I didn't intend on buying in the first place but I doubt I'd buy another game from the app store again.
No, that person is helping us make informed decisions. You'd have to be hopelessly tied to a company to find fault with that, and these seem like improvements that are in MS's best interest to improve.
matrix-cat
Member
If I can region-switch my way into buying W10 games for a pittance like this then I'll keep coming back, but, yeah, with these limitations on what I'd consider pretty standard PC gaming practices I'd never buy a full price game from the W10 Store. Too many better alternatives to put up with that kind of nonsense.