Comments on rahulsood: Games for Windows – the Gauntlet has been dropped

"Games For Windows" is another attempt at MS to co...

2007-04-01T07:34:00.000-07:00

"Games For Windows" is another attempt at MS to control the world. I'm really sick of Microsoft. They throw a piece of garbage out there like Vista (which they charge an unreasonable sum of money for AND it performs WORSE than XP), now they will charge game designers more money to stick their moronic logo on the box, which in turn costs the consumer more money.

Now we're supposed to strip down to our undies and dance around in the rain celebrating that GFW has arrived to save us all and make PC games more popular again? What the f*ck is wrong with Microsoft?

Wasn't DirectX supposed to deliver performance, compatibility, and stability in the first place? Microsoft has proven itself time and time again to be a poor brand, yet they feel that putting their name on more products will be a good thing? No wonder everyone is buying a console.

Jeremy there is a difference between the word PC a...

2007-03-31T00:34:00.000-07:00

Jeremy there is a difference between the word PC and the word WINDOWS. A game made for a sony/nintendo is comparable to a game for a PC. The question is does the game support other OS softwares. If it did not say it was sony you might accidentally buy it and stick it in your 360! Thanks to companies like blizzard that issue does not exist as their games are mac/pc. The problem here is whether or not Bill Gates should be taking credit for games he did not produce as a software company. All your games already have pc/mac compatible notice somewhere on the packaging, do you want it to say in big letters microsoft game as well?

Your point about branding is spot on, I think, but...

2007-03-29T14:41:00.000-07:00

Your point about branding is spot on, I think, but Bioware, Bungee, E.A., et. al. don't seem to have a problem slapping a huge-ass "Sony" or "Nintendo" banner on their console games.