Guild Wars 2

One of the few cool things Xbox One has done is there game clip recording & sharing. Now that Windows 10 is here, Microsoft has brought this to the PC. It would be great to quickly and easily share goofy little videos, or awesome PvP moments easily with Windows 10, so I’m excited that it is finally here!

You can record any game just fine. The problem now is that games have to have some xbox support features implemented in order to actually share the game clip to the xbox app. Games have to be verified with Microsoft as a legit game so that people can’t just upload random porn or something to the xbox app.

If I remember from a windows 10 game dev video, it isn’t all too hard to get your game working with the app.

I hope Anet considers doing this in the future! Easy game clip sharing is something the Xbox app does well!

I think that is an Microsoft problem at the moment.
The function works with apps so far.

Hopefully they expand that feature. Though I got a promt to use Windows button + G to launch that feature as I started GW2 after updating

As far as I understood from Xbox own video on Windows 10, that feature should work by pressing the Windows key + G, with any game. Might just be bad implementation from Microsoft’s side for now. As far as I understand, GW and GW2 renders a lot on the CPU, as opposed to the GPU, since I have a older PC with a halfway corrupted GPU (pretty much every game will have texture and polygon corruption) where GW and GW2 runs just fine. Maybe that is throwing the Xbox application off somehow?

Jaken.6801:

I think that is an Microsoft problem at the moment.
The function works with apps so far.

Hopefully they expand that feature. Though I got a promt to use Windows button + G to launch that feature as I started GW2 after updating

I should be more clear. Actually recording videos works great on the games I’ve tested it on.

The problem is when you try to share the game clip to your xbox feed for others to see. You get the error shown in the picture. I think Anet just has to do a few small things to get their game to work with the xbox app.

Hopefully they will at least look into it

I would say no, just because the last thing I want is the flood of XBL players turning an already borderline dysfunctional family that is this forums, into a fully dysfunctional family that is XBL.

But thats just me and tin foil hat.

starlinvf.1358:

I would say no, just because the last thing I want is the flood of XBL players turning an already borderline dysfunctional family that is this forums, into a fully dysfunctional family that is XBL.

But thats just me and tin foil hat.

Adding this support wouldn’t magically port Gw2 to xbox. All this would allow is to post your game clips to the now built in Windows 10 Xbox app.

Windows 10 users will have an “Xbox” account, and so everyone can use the xbox app to add and talk to each other. Similar to Steam, Curse, Skype, and many others. The Xbox app however is built in (I like that), and has a cool social aspect to it in the way that you can easily share cool gaming moments that maybe isn’t worthy enough of going through the hassle of putting it up on youtube and linking it to your friends.

Klinch.2964:

starlinvf.1358:

I would say no, just because the last thing I want is the flood of XBL players turning an already borderline dysfunctional family that is this forums, into a fully dysfunctional family that is XBL.

But thats just me and tin foil hat.

Uhh, adding this support wouldn’t magically port Gw2 to xbox. All this would allow is to post your game clips to the now built in Windows 10 Xbox app.

Windows 10 users will have an “Xbox” account, and so everyone can use the xbox app to add and talk to each other. Similar to Steam, Curse, Skype, and many others. The Xbox app however is built in (I like that), and has a cool social aspect to it in the way that you can easily share cool gaming moments that maybe isn’t worthy enough of going through the hassle of putting it up on youtube and linking it to your friends.

Clearly don’t know where I come from, do you? But at any rate, I have a skeptical level of value for anything that uploads video, but doesn’t encourage the development of proper editing habits, or directly encourages the “I like to hear myself talk” syndrome. I give some leeway with “I’m talking because I think silence is awkward”, because thats mostly a learning experience.

starlinvf.1358:

Klinch.2964:

starlinvf.1358:

I would say no, just because the last thing I want is the flood of XBL players turning an already borderline dysfunctional family that is this forums, into a fully dysfunctional family that is XBL.

But thats just me and tin foil hat.

Uhh, adding this support wouldn’t magically port Gw2 to xbox. All this would allow is to post your game clips to the now built in Windows 10 Xbox app.

Windows 10 users will have an “Xbox” account, and so everyone can use the xbox app to add and talk to each other. Similar to Steam, Curse, Skype, and many others. The Xbox app however is built in (I like that), and has a cool social aspect to it in the way that you can easily share cool gaming moments that maybe isn’t worthy enough of going through the hassle of putting it up on youtube and linking it to your friends.

Clearly don’t know where I come from, do you? But at any rate, I have a skeptical level of value for anything that uploads video, but doesn’t encourage the development of proper editing habits, or directly encourages the “I like to hear myself talk” syndrome. I give some leeway with “I’m talking because I think silence is awkward”, because thats mostly a learning experience.

Sorry, but nope, I don’t know you. But you really think that a 10-15 second clip of a clutch pvp moment, or your party being hilariously wiped in a fractal requires an intro/outro and narration? Remember, these type of small clips are aimed to show your friends mostly, not make revenue off of thousands of views :P

Your opinion I guess. I think when more people figure out these “xbox” features with windows 10, and more games do it, people on pc will enjoy it too.

Nvidia has that ShadowPlay thing, and doesn’t AMD have some sort of thing like that as well? Why not just use those options instead? Press a button and the last x amount of seconds gets saved to disk (plus whatever follows until you stop recording). For that matter, do the Xbox application even function like that? I thought that was more of a “Press the Windows key + G and hit the Record option to start recording” kind of thing.

Absconditus.6804:

Nvidia has that ShadowPlay thing, and doesn’t AMD have some sort of thing like that as well? Why not just use those options instead? Press a button and the last x amount of seconds gets saved to disk (plus whatever follows until you stop recording). For that matter, do the Xbox application even function like that? I thought that was more of a “Press the Windows key + G and hit the Record option to start recording” kind of thing.

Windows recording is pretty similar to Nvidia recording. You can record the previous moments of gaming with Win+Alt+G. or you can just hit the record button when you open the game bar with Win+G. As for quality comparison, I’m not too sure.

The difference, however, is the social aspect built in with Windows 10 and Xbox. Games that are “verified” with Microsoft/Xbox can have the clips that were recorded from that game posted onto your activity feed on the Xbox app for all of your friends to see. Right now, if the game isn’t set up, when you try to share the recorded clip to your feed, you get an error saying that the game is not recognized. I’m pretty sure Anet has to do something in order for the game to become recognized by the Xbox app.

Most clips I record are kinda cool to show to friends, but never make the light of day on YouTube because the clip really isn’t THAT special. Game clip sharing with the Xbox app is just a pretty cool and simple way to show those kind of clips to your friends.

So I Googled. Apparently you can only share stuff recorded from games bought through Windows Store. You can use the new Xbox app to record stuff from non-Windows Store games, but you can’t share it. This makes it a Microsoft thing, I think.

Have you successfully posted other non-Windows Store game clips to the Xbox app? And are those games also available through the Windows Store?

Klinch.2964:

One of the few cool things Xbox One has done is there game clip recording & sharing. Now that Windows 10 is here, Microsoft has brought this to the PC. It would be great to quickly and easily share goofy little videos, or awesome PvP moments easily with Windows 10, so I’m excited that it is finally here!

You can record any game just fine. The problem now is that games have to have some xbox support features implemented in order to actually share the game clip to the xbox app. Games have to be verified with Microsoft as a legit game so that people can’t just upload random porn or something to the xbox app.

If I remember from a windows 10 game dev video, it isn’t all too hard to get your game working with the app.

I hope Anet considers doing this in the future! Easy game clip sharing is something the Xbox app does well!

iam enjoying this myself as well too. and even tho i got the feeling Anet does not want a thing to with this or xbox for that matter . it would be a very much welcomed change if Anet did hop on the band wagon with this . and make it happen . but like i said from what i seen out of Anet iam not holding my breath . but sure do hope they will like i said .

starlinvf.1358:

I would say no, just because the last thing I want is the flood of XBL players turning an already borderline dysfunctional family that is this forums, into a fully dysfunctional family that is XBL.

But thats just me and tin foil hat.

some of us people with both windows10 and xbox and these games like this idea a lot. and want to see it happen . and are hopping it will happen soon . and we also hope the Anet mods or Anet does not lock these topic,s

Yeah, I hope games pre-windows10 take advantage of it.