"Operating system Windows 8 will be a "catastrophe" for PC game makers, according to Valve Software's boss.
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He said the success of Valve, known for its Half Life, Left4Dead and Portal titles, had been down to the open nature of the PC.
However, he added, the openness that helped Valve as well as firms such as Google and Zynga could disappear with Windows 8.
"There's a strong temptation to close the platform," he said, "because they look at what they can accomplish when they limit the competitors' access to the platform, and they say, 'That's really exciting.'"
This is seen by commentators to be a reference to the inclusion of a Windows Store in the Microsoft operating system.
This is a shop through which users will be able to buy apps for their Windows 8 device.
On some versions of Windows 8, it will be the only way to get downloadable software such as games.
Microsoft takes a cut, up to 30%, of every sale made through this store." full story
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so what do you guys think?
i cant say i have looked into winsows 8 much since a techie nerd guy said it would basically turn the bios into some sort of microsoft omniDRM.
(i put this in the gaming section since its the gaming relavent stuff i want to find out about)
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"When the government fears the people you have Liberty,
when the people fear the government yo have tyranny,
when injustice becomes law, Rebellion becomes Duty!"
~ Thomas Jefferson.
think this may drive more games devs to go the sdl/opengl route?
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"When the government fears the people you have Liberty,
when the people fear the government yo have tyranny,
when injustice becomes law, Rebellion becomes Duty!"
~ Thomas Jefferson.
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Is it me, or has the entire business industry become filled with idiotic greedy tards that seem to only come up with products and services that are increasingly more restrictive and the complete opposite of what consumers are looking for?
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Ahhhhh maybe Gabe should have got past the starter screen, once you get past the first screen(which seems to cater more to tablets, iphones and the like for functionality), its very much like Windows 7 with improvements, according to a reliable source.
Don`t want 8, stick to Windows 7.
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Honestly, i hope the PC gaming industry goes to Linux cause i love it, i dual boot right now just for my PC gaming. And Microsoft is turning into a massive piece of crap. 7 was a huge turn around from vista and now they are just going backwards again.
I just love the fact that one of the main industries in computer tech is like, nahh windows sucks we're not having it.
Windows 3.1 - extremely stable and most games ran through dos and I don't think I had one game crash on me back then, well except Doom 2 did like to stutter on the last level..
Windows 95 - very internet friendly but buggy.. memory leaks.. etc, and so on...
Windows 98 SE - solid as a rock.. very gamer friendly..
Windows ME - pure trash.. buggy as all hell.. conflicted with certain hardware.. had irq port issues, etc, and so on. However, many of the games that ran on 98 ran ok on ME, it just had to be rebooted quite a bit because of the memory leaks.
Windows XP - when it was first released it was a bloody nightmare, it had certain hardware conflicts like ME which would result in bsod's, it took quite awhile for 3rd party companies to release updated drivers, etc, and so on. But by the time SP1 was released, it was possibly one of their most stable operating systems.
Windows Vista - Vista was like a rough draft of what would be Windows 7, it wasn't horrible and I had very few issues with it but it felt beta like.
Windows 7 - was happy with it from day one, it manages memory far better than the previous os's, it shipped with very few serious flaws, and the 64 edition is a dream. The only issue I've really had with it is that when I jumped from the 32 bit edition to the 64 bit edition, New Vegas turned into a crash happy nightmare.
Windows 8 - from what I've seen and read about it, it will be the next Windows ME, and the way it handles the bios is just beyond retarded.
I excluded the NT operating systems but I was quite happy with NT 4 and 2k.
Oh, and New Vegas' issues are on Bethesda, the game is poorly coded and was buggy from day one.
New Vegas videos are actually on Obsidian Ent. cause Bethesda threw fallout 3's engine at them, which was great and ran just fine, and they screwed the holy poop out of it.
I haven't seen the details on how it handles Bios, i bet ill be disappointed. I'm probably going back to Linux for ever lol.
So its kinda a pattern of two good 1 god awful horrible one.
Windows 7 feels good but total trash for just about any game pre vista...hell most vista games wont even play. Sure as hell i like how the format on W7 is. will W8 hope for "backwards compatibility" that W7 promised. So far i have been on my console rather than my PC gaming abilities due to the simple fact of nothing that works. im tempted to just do a duel boot and have actual xp running in the back ground.
W8 won't be that bad but yeah I do agree that its going to be marketed to the mac/smart phone crowd but hey it might actually be a good user format and hoping that doesn crash on everything you put in
