Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan
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Re: Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan
#2BBC is using their platform to issue counter-attacks to legitimate complaints by independent developers. Nothing new here people, move along.
Re: Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan
#3From the article:
Mr Persson revealed his views in two tweets.
From twitter:
Got an email from microsoft, wanting to help "certify" minecraft for win 8. I told them to stop trying to ruin the pc as an open platform.
I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along. Maybe we can convince a few people not to switch to win 8 that way..
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#4I still think he's being a sensationalist. Even the BBC are less biased here. There is no requirement to get it certified and you can just use minecraft how it is now without having to go near an app store.
This is all hot air.
Re: Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan
#5The thing is Windows 8 is radically changing a lot of stuff and that won't sit well with most businesses in the PC world. Maybe Windows 8 won't give Valve or Notch a death blow by removing the "desktop mode", but I think it's pretty obvious that Microsoft wants the future of Windows to be "Metro-only", and these guys can see that.
So it's not Windows 8 per se that they are mad about. It's the whole direction Windows is taking. If they and others can get Windows 8 to fail, and get Microsoft to revert back to the old style Windows, then they win. If not, and Windows 8 is successful, they lose, because you can bet Windows 9 will be even more locked into Metro and with fewer options or less access for the desktop mode.
Re: Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan
#6The thing is Windows 8 is radically changing a lot of stuff and that won't sit well with most businesses in the PC world. Maybe Windows 8 won't give Valve or Notch a death blow by removing the "desktop mode", but I think it's pretty obvious that Microsoft wants the future of Windows to be "Metro-only", and these guys can see that. So it's not Windows 8 per se that they are mad about. It's the whole direction Windows…
No, they don't want "Metro-only" . This is bullshit. Stop spreading it.
Re: Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan
#7The thing is Windows 8 is radically changing a lot of stuff and that won't sit well with most businesses in the PC world. Maybe Windows 8 won't give Valve or Notch a death blow by removing the "desktop mode", but I think it's pretty obvious that Microsoft wants the future of Windows to be "Metro-only", and these guys can see that. So it's not Windows 8 per se that they are mad about. It's the whole direction Windows…
No, they don't want "Metro-only" . This is bullshit. Stop spreading it.
That's a very weak counterargument. Why would Microsoft prefer to carry on developing both interfaces when the majority of users will clearly prefer Metro?
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#8Not related to the point at hand, but why don't people mention the millions of copies sold on other platforms?
More than 7.5 million copies of the title have been sold
More than 14 million copies of the game have been sold across all platforms, {relevant figure for relevant platform here}.
Re: Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan
#9Not related to the point at hand, but why don't people mention the millions of copies sold on other platforms? More than 7.5 million copies of the title have been sold Minecraft has sold 7.5 Million (+) of the PC version, it has also sold millions of copies of the iOS version, the Android version and the Xbox version which just recently broke 5 (edit: sorry, 4) million sales. Seems strange not to say something like:…
It's really surprising (to me) that 10k people per day are still buying pc minecraft. I'd think pretty much everyone that was interested in a game like that would have gotten it by now? How can there still be 10k new people per day (over what, 3 years now?) that have just found out about minecraft?
Re: Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft's Windows 8 plan
#10The thing is Windows 8 is radically changing a lot of stuff and that won't sit well with most businesses in the PC world. Maybe Windows 8 won't give Valve or Notch a death blow by removing the "desktop mode", but I think it's pretty obvious that Microsoft wants the future of Windows to be "Metro-only", and these guys can see that. So it's not Windows 8 per se that they are mad about. It's the whole direction Windows…
The mix of plain desktop and touch environment is what draws me to Win8. I didn't get a Asus Transformer, as the only emacs I could get there was in a terminal, and in a sandbox. With a Win8 tablet, I get tablet-y stuff, and a full desktop env with a full unsandboxed emacs. Exactly what I want.
So I hope they keep this best-of-both-worlds for the forseeable future.