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Re: Blizzard/Valve and Win8

Jul 27, 2012, 21:31

DarkCntry

eunichron wrote on Jul 27, 2012, 21:16: "Big" in the sense that they make games with a focus on PC that a large majority of PC gamers love to play, and run the single largest digital distribution network for PC gaming in the world. They haven't done a 'big' game in years, their only current asset to PC Gaming is Steam and is exactly why Gabe's worried about Win8. When you have two developers who never abandoned the PC platform insinuating that Windows 8 will kill desktop PC gaming, that is a pretty big deal. Valve has done it's own damage in terms of the PC platform, but that's its own discussion, and more-so could be said about Blizzard. That said, it doesn't change why Gabe's upset, and Blizzard's Pardo is only scared in what that means for their future ability to control their content. If anyone believes that Win8 is going to do anything to PC gaming, let alone PC computing in general, I might just want to point them back a few years to WinME.

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Comment [quote="DarkCntry"Jul 27, 2012, 21:31][quote="eunichron"Jul 27, 2012, 21:16]"Big" in the sense that they make games with a focus on PC that a large majority of PC gamers love to play, and run the single largest digital distribution network for PC gaming in the world.[/quote] They haven't done a 'big' game in years, their only current asset to PC Gaming *is* Steam and is exactly why Gabe's worried about Win8. [quote]When you have two developers who never abandoned the PC platform insinuating that Windows 8 will kill desktop PC gaming, that is a pretty big deal. [/quote] Valve has done it's own damage in terms of the PC platform, but that's its own discussion, and more-so could be said about Blizzard. That said, it doesn't change why Gabe's upset, and Blizzard's Pardo is only scared in what that means for their future ability to control their content. If anyone believes that Win8 is going to do anything to PC gaming, let alone PC computing in general, I might just want to point them back a few years to WinME. [/quote]

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