Microsoft hate PC Gamers!
They see us as a threat to their Console cash-cow, probably blame us for the XBox One not doing as well as expected.
For the past decade they have been trying to hold back PC Game development with their DX API monopoly, DX11 was junk on the day it was released and it was junk for the decade they never updated it.
One could argue "but what about DX12"
Thanks to AMD Microsoft had no choice, had they not reacted to Mantle they would have lost their DX API Monopoly entirely, they would have lost all control of PC Gaming.
What they are doing here is trying to control it in another way, and then gimp the crap out of it.
Ever wondered why the XBox One originally ran on DX11?
That Mantle API was originally meant to be bundled with AMD XBox One hardware, but it had strings attached, that it would also become DX12, those were AMD's Terms, MS refused so they never got the API.
AMD released it for Desktop anyway knowing it would force MS to react.
The argument against that is "But MS said they started DX12 long before Mantle, they worked with Nvidia on it"
Think about that, really?
Are they saying AMD can get a working low level API out before Microsoft and Nvidia combined?
And even if it was true why then did AMD have big name developers queuing up behind AMD in support of something they say they had wanted for years with Microsoft refusing?
AMD made an enemy of Microsoft for not falling into line, Nvidia just thought they would suck up to MS for day to join them in having a stab at AMD.
And before you might say "you're just an AMD fanboi" My GPU is a GTX 970, my CPU is a 4690K
Oh and of course Ashes runs better on AMD, the API its running on (DX12) was originally designed for GCN.
