Notch Snubs Microsoft, Refuses to Certify Minecraft for Windows 8
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Yeah right, he's a ****
As above.
So you're telling me upheld isn't going to port it to w8 RT which is very easy and sale it to a massive market.
At least EA have the foresight, and back win8 as they say the easier it is to port games, the fast and less cost it takes and they can sale to more devices.
Some people like notch aren't just hypocrites they're plain stupid. Desktop over the coming years is going to shrink, moving into these new markets is vital.
How many people have brought an iPad and use it and their phone as their only pic, it's a large number. This will only expand.
As above.
So you're telling me upheld isn't going to port it to w8 RT which is very easy and sale it to a massive market.
At least EA have the foresight, and back win8 as they say the easier it is to port games, the fast and less cost it takes and they can sale to more devices.
Some people like notch aren't just hypocrites they're plain stupid. Desktop over the coming years is going to shrink, moving into these new markets is vital.
How many people have brought an iPad and use it and their phone as their only pic, it's a large number. This will only expand.
Notch is a bad developer, with bad ideas and doesn't finish what he starts, he got lucky because he spammed the **** out of his program on 4chan etc. All the good work is seemingly done by other people as he abandanoned it on launch after breaking many promises to early adopters.
Oh and also he now has a stage to have his retarded views broadcasted as news as if he knows anything.
His new games look crap too, one hit wonder
Oh and also he now has a stage to have his retarded views broadcasted as news as if he knows anything.
His new games look crap too, one hit wonder
So what has got valve and blizzard peed off?
As they are thinking of the future, when ms will likely go down the route of only having ms store. That's more than likely a few windows versions away, by which time you won't see computing as it is today.
It has nothing to do with w8 and they also totaly fail to see and embrace the future. If they don't embrace it they will die.
EA on the other hand have jumped on the bandwagon with iPhone and iPad and are fully behind w8, they can see not only can they make full desktop games, it's very easy to port the games to rt/WP and increase their sales even further.
This is the sort of thing that can be done one windows rt. now if you aren't going to get inboard with that in this massively changing market, then you deserve to get you arse handed to you in the next 6or so years. Especially as minecraft is allready on apple store. Developers would be insane not to use this new shared kernal across so many platforms.
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/47175/unreal-engine-3-demoed-windows-rt
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This is why Valve are starting to port their games into Linux, most likely bracing for what MS is going to bring in future versions and having something to fall back on.
The thing is, EA are big on apps, they are in the app market already, they have facebook apps made and apps on the iTunes and Play stores respectively, so of course they will back anything which looks like it will generate more revenue for app sales, other developers won't.
Lots of people still buy PC's just because of gaming capabilities, if I didn't want to game, I doubt I would buy a PC, I'd probably get a mac. So if MS become too restrictive people will jump ship to something else to play games on instead (If it's available), I think Valve know this already which is why they're trying to push iOS and Linux.
Why would they jump, when you can play full games on windows.
They aren't, why would most people buy windows and then a Linux machine just for games.
If steam fully go that way, they're going to find their profits decline massively.
If they g that route, they're planning for a future that doesn't really exist and will be massively niche. Onto f that developers will pull games from steam anyway, or at least put the games on windows/apple stores anyway. Remember steam don't make or own the vast majority of games.
Why let steam take a cut for a niche product when they can stick it on massive stores with 100s of millions of connected devices. It's all the same for the developers. Steam take a cut or Microsoft/apple take a cut.
They aren't, why would most people buy windows and then a Linux machine just for games.
If steam fully go that way, they're going to find their profits decline massively.
If they g that route, they're planning for a future that doesn't really exist and will be massively niche. Onto f that developers will pull games from steam anyway, or at least put the games on windows/apple stores anyway. Remember steam don't make or own the vast majority of games.
Why let steam take a cut for a niche product when they can stick it on massive stores with 100s of millions of connected devices. It's all the same for the developers. Steam take a cut or Microsoft/apple take a cut.
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It offers NOTHING over Windows 7, so there is no need to ever upgrade. Shimples.
And if MS/Apple start taking cuts, they start either A) Buying shares and buying out the company or B) trying to dictate policy.
NEITHER are good for the gaming industry.
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if all games worked with linux why would anyone use windows? its the only reason I'm not full time debian user.
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+1 I only came back to windows when I got a gaming rig, before that on my old p4 I was on arch 24/7.
Games will never work with "Linux". You think Steam is going to work on Arch? Nope! It's Ubuntu all the way for Valve at the moment.
In the same way nobody cares that their phone runs Linux. It's Android. So "Linux" will never succeed but "Android" has and "Ubuntu" certainly can.
As far as the Windows 8 Store is concerned it's exactly the same as what the publishing industry is going through with Kindle. The current big players (Valve, Blizzard etc.) don't like it because it slices right into their business model (Steam, Monthly subscriptions etc.). BUT it allows a monumental audience for the more indie developers. Steam has 54 million active users. Windows 8 will have a bigger reach than that in like a week?
In the same way nobody cares that their phone runs Linux. It's Android. So "Linux" will never succeed but "Android" has and "Ubuntu" certainly can.
As far as the Windows 8 Store is concerned it's exactly the same as what the publishing industry is going through with Kindle. The current big players (Valve, Blizzard etc.) don't like it because it slices right into their business model (Steam, Monthly subscriptions etc.). BUT it allows a monumental audience for the more indie developers. Steam has 54 million active users. Windows 8 will have a bigger reach than that in like a week?
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Not yet it isn't.
From my own experience, NVidia Surround is flaky, Xonar drivers are non-existent, TrackIR drivers are not available.
There's game issues...like IL2 COD simply won't run. Many people have issues around GFWL with Steam games.
...and that's just me.
There's a lot of stuff needed to get the basics right and given there's been little or no progress on some of these, I'm not expecting a glut of changes in the next 3 or 4 weeks to make everything rosy.
Believe it or not I actually like Windows 8, but it's not without it's problems - largely because of 3rd parties. This is where MS has really dropped the ball in 8. For Windows 7 they really worked hard with 3rd parties to get everything working on day 1.
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Just people over reacting.
It's not like MS is going to prevent third party applications from working, so Steam will always be Steam, MS won't see a cut of their money etc.
It's not like MS is going to prevent third party applications from working, so Steam will always be Steam, MS won't see a cut of their money etc.
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/facepalm